Veteran Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie, has revealed why she ceased from attending Catholic churches in Nigerian.
She disclosed this in an exclusive interviews he had with media personality, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu on Bounce Radio earlier in the year.
The 43-year-old writer explained that she does not attend Catholic churches in Nigeria because activities became “way too much”
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She said their activities are all about money, fundraising, and thanksgiving.
Chimamanda Adichie says;
“Nigerian Catholicism is way too much about money, fundraising, and thanksgiving. Some in the east even look at who’s wearing gold. I think the focus of religion should be things Nigerian Catholicism doesn’t focus on.
“I grew up Catholic. Catholicism was very important to me. It‘s almost like a culture, not just a religion. So even if you leave the Catholic Church, it’s in you. Today, I don’t like to talk about religion because I don’t know.
“I think of myself as agnostic and questioning. Catholicism holds you tight. There are many other protestant denominations that are not so. It’s all-inclusive. ‘You cannot eat before mass. You have to go to confession.’
“There are so many rules. It teaches you guilt in a way that I don’t think so many protestant denominations do. I’m Catholic, nominally. I still feel protective of some things about the Catholic Church. But I don’t attend it in Nigeria.”
