Seun Kuti challenges conventional views about God and religion, says Africans won’t make heaven

Seun Kuti, scion of late Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti has challenged the conventional views about God and religion while also declaring that Africans won’t make heaven.

The Afrobeat artist refuted the idea that God is a white man with white hair, a white beard, and a white robe in his latest discussion on the topic on the Zero Conditions Podcast.

The father of one criticised the tradition of “white God,” saying that such a portrayal is unacceptable.

Seun said; “I don’t believe in God in the concept that the Western and Abrahamic religions portray God as their own white God.

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“This is their own God, if he was living with us, nobody would like him; someone watching you every time and telling you what to do? 5000 years on the throne with no election? Just spend 15 years on earth on the throne and hear your people start complaining, ‘Oga when is the next election?'” he explained.

He emphasized how Eve and other women are depicted negatively in the Bible to highlight his point, and he also said that Africans are not meant for paradise, but rather for temple slavery.”

Seun said; “He also didn’t like women, every bad thing that happened in the Bible was because of a woman, Eve, Delilah, Jezebel. If you close your eyes and you imagine your God as a white man with white hair, beard, and a white robe, you’re lost.”

“Revelations has already made it clear that African people would never make it to heaven. Only 12,000 people from the 12 tribes of Judea, that is 144,000 people, would enter the real heaven. The rest of you will go there to serve in the temple. So slavery has already been secured for you again.”

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