SOCIAL MEDIA IN LIGHT OF PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION AND THEOLOGY ( Academic Paper )

Man is not perfect—and perfection itself will never be perfected, and always imperfect until it is perfect. Blindness is not only a product of the eye, but also the mind and heart that connects the eye to the rest of the organs on the body. In recent times of mental slavery and low esteem stance for humanity and religion, the social media has been one of the most successful media outlets that have effortlessly dehumanized, decolonized and disfranchised the human mind intellectually without signs and symptoms. The different traits we all possess are proportionally different from the realities we face in our lives. If slavery had not existed in Africa, as a way of colonialism, the social media would have been a very powerful instrument to successfully colonize Africans without having to disvirgin our waters with ships and boats loaded with our brains taken to the West Indies. Before I write this article and while I was battling with sickness, I conducted an intellectual survey on my Facebook page to test the number of people out of the 5000 friends I have — to see those who will be online to share, like, or comment on any good teaching on Islam or Christianity or other religions, supposing they are not one’s religion but teaching a hard fact factually. Despondently, Facebook itself contextually asked me what’s on your mind, I had to write; “I’m sick, worried and surprised.” Surprise that the drug you (Facebook) has been prescribing for usage is not being used accurately by honorable people in my country and continent (Africa).

As if philosophy had schooled me enough to wipe out the inhuman dust raising fictitious concerns on social media unnoticeably— I coughed words of commensuration, politely alphabetizing the unread fiction of human deeds uncharitably making waves in trends of African gutters.  To add inscription to description without describing precepts of intelligence, do man, especially Africans normally reflect on the past and future. If yes, how often? And if no why?  Have they noticed that there are three days on earth: TODAY, YESTERDAY, and TOMORROW?

 My dear brother and sister, no one cares or condemns you to like, comment or share anything on social media, is your inalienable right and divine bonus to misuse or use correctly, and your privacy and personality— what I’m after is reminding you that anything you do, have been doing or have done on social media will be there even if you die. Therefore, not all personal, societal, national or international issues must be shared or written in public. Is very true that the parrot is talkative, but never talks to itself alone. You must give a dog a name before you kill it. Few months ago, a female personality in my beloved country died— friends in friendship for woe and cold-blooded of them had to use her pictures on Facebook carelessly, and not even watching the content of the pictures they had shared informing us about her death. But adding pain to the corpse journeying to another world—one of them said: “I can’t still believe you’re gone, just yesterday you were so very sexy and everyone talked about your attractive dress code”.  Taking a closer read of this quote, I ordered for a tissue paper to wipe out the unabashed students of  newly enrolled water running down my nose as a result of a three-day premature freshly common-cold I’ve been suffering in the absence of pepper-soup and fish I miss eating.

Having to even post her pictures and the short dress she wore— for neither Islam, nor Christianity encourages such—when a person dies, religion defines that we sympathize them, cherish them, never talk bad about them and always pray for them at least. But the opposite was done, one sensitive woman who had actually realized the nudity of what has been done—instantly hid all her odd pictures on Facebook and wrote on her timeline: “Please when I die, do not post my pictures on Facebook or share them like that without looking at the content of the picture you’re posting”, she ended. The most valuable asset mankind has, apart from his life and provisions from God, is his or her privacy and personality— does man normally reflect about death from time to time, to measure the degree of good and bad he or she has been doing or done—he who has never made any mistake in life, have never learnt anything new. Let people watch attentively things we do on social media, people nowadays are very difficult to pleased, very easy to judge and have blended religion and politics together, even morality is now taken to be a pleasure. In the very brain of theology I pondered, I happened to realize that some people on earth will see the number 6 plainly written and call it number 9, depending on how they are standing when looking at the number— and others will see 6 and 9 written differently and call it 69. Let us not be too quick to judge, let’s be first to always hear things, but last to always speak; and lets us do to others what we will like them to do to us. The stick that destroys the eye-sight of a person, the eye of the person cannot see it.

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