By ADESOLA AYO-ADERELE
News: “Women from marine world on the prowl, MFM’s Olukoya warns philandering husbands.”
The headline is as laughable as it is predictable—predictable in the sense that it squarely puts the blame for philandering on women.
Otherwise, the question is, if there were no marine women from the netherworld, would it have been okay for married men to commit adultery all over the place?
And, why is there no similar warning for adulterous wives—or are we insinuating that philandering is peculiar to the male folk and them alone?
Or don’t the lives of women count enough to also receive revelation to steer them from the possible invasion of men from the marine world?
Perhaps there’s no marine men; after all, we’ve only heard of Yemoja and never for once Bamoja!
In religion, women are the scapegoats and even at my age and having been a woman all my life, I still don’t understand why women should be the focus of every negative prophecies and harsh doctrines.
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Preachers’ wives hardly trust any woman in their congregation. On this platform, I’ve come across preaching by religious leaders’ wives who don’t mince words about their suspicion that the average woman in the congregation is plotting to replace them by all means. The seductress is the issue; while their saintly, innocent husbands are the victims. Laughable.
In religion, women are the scapegoats and even at my age and having been a woman all my life, I still don’t understand why women should be the focus of every negative prophecies and harsh doctrines.
I’m sure that by now, wives in MFM will be up in arms fasting and praying away marine women from their husbands. Yet, my unyielding conviction is that, pray all you would, you can’t make up a philanderer’s mind for him. It’s his battle and if a husband truly needs protection from any woman—spirit or human—he will learn to keep his entire body in check.
It is beneath reason and decency for any woman to engage in physical fight to keep a man that is all out to do his thing. God save you, if you die or get seriously injured in the process of defending ‘your property’ [hiss], the very woman you’re fighting might become your kids’ stepmother.
And God save those kids if she’s from the marine world 😹 More hisses.
