1,000 CHURCHES OR FACTORIES?: A viral video of Bishop David Oyedepo declaring a personal covenant to build 1,000 churches before he dies has once again exposed the grotesque theater of religion in Nigeria. While nations build factories, labs, and tech hubs, our own prophets of profit are busy erecting more temples of delusion. Not 1,000 schools. Not 1,000 factories. But 1,000 churches—monuments to mass indoctrination and spiritual consumerism.
This is not piety; it is enterprise. And the product being sold is hope—cheap, unverified, and endlessly recycled. Oyedepo and his ilk have mastered the business of belief, weaponizing a Roman-invented Jesus cobbled together from Greco-Judaic mythology and imperial propaganda. They have turned faith into fortune, exploiting a people conditioned to pray instead of think, to fast instead of act, to wait for miracles while their lives fall apart.
Christianity in Nigeria has evolved into one of the most efficient business scams ever devised. The pastors grow wealthier, their followers grow poorer, and the country remains spiritually intoxicated and economically paralyzed. These churches produce nothing—no goods, no services, no jobs—except an ever-growing population of mentally colonized individuals trained to surrender reason at the altar.
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Let us be brutally honest: Nigeria does not need another thousand churches. It needs industry. It needs factories. It needs jobs, power, infrastructure, and a people capable of critical thought. What it does not need is another circus tent where desperation is monetized in the name of a foreign god.
This is where the state must step in. Religion cannot remain an unregulated gold mine. Any institution that generates income, solicits funds, and manipulates public belief at scale must be subject to regulation and taxation. No more hiding behind stained glass and holy jargon. Let them prove their worth or close shop.
More importantly, the people must wake up. Faith is not a plan. Hope is not a policy. Jesus will not fix the roads, end inflation, or create jobs. That responsibility lies with us. Nigerians must grow out of this infantilizing theology that teaches them to wait for divine rescue while their country crumbles.
The real miracle will be when Nigerians stop building altars and start building engines—when they stop serving prophets and start serving progress. Until then, every new church is just another brick in the prison of our own making.
For the love of humanity,
Apostle Genesis,
Apostle of Knowledge to the nations
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