True Religion And Nation Building: Biblical And Ethical Perspectives

Abstract

From Egypt to Morocco, Libya to Tunisia, Iraq to Afghanistan, and from Bosnia to Central African Republic (CAR), mankind has watched  nations struggle, and has sought or attempted to rebuild them. There has been a record of revolutions that have religious or political  undertone. Some of the agitated fighters have taken to arms. Mankind’s record is one of failure. Nigeria is not shielded from this malady;  she is a nation of two contraries: a nation with the happiest people and a nation bedevilled by corruption. Economically, several  borrowing from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), different economic policies of the administrations have not yielded  the much needed fruit and the religious sphere is replete with same sad experience. Against this backdrop, some look up to religion for  solution. As a result of this, some peddlers of religious commodities seize the opportunity to loot the already wounded flock. The study  falls within the domain of humanities and collaborative interdisciplinary tools and methods have been employed in order to arrive at  findings capable of solving the present problem. Authentic guidelines for quality control and nation building cued from the realm of  religious experience demand the interdisciplinary efforts of biblical and ethical scholars. At the end, the researchers offered some  recommendations by applying biblical and ethical categories to myriad of problems of nation building that emanate from the abuse of  religion.