LagosNigeria
Religiously divided — roughly Muslim-majority north (~50%) and Christian-majority south (~46%), with massive Pentecostal/charismatic megachurch culture in the south and conservative Sunni traditions in the north including some sharia states.
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Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria and one of the most religiously intense urban environments in the world, dominated by enormous Pentecostal-charismatic megachurches (Redeemed Christian Church of God, Winners Chapel, Mountain of Fire, Synagogue Church of All Nations). The level of weekly engagement, financial expectation, and lifestyle prescription in these churches is hard to picture from outside, and so much of small-business Nigeria is networked through the church that leaving often means losing the entire economic and social ecosystem at once.
There is also a large Muslim population in Lagos, particularly in the older parts of the city, with a quieter exit dynamic that follows the broader Nigerian Muslim pattern.
The pillar page on Pentecostalism is the most relevant for Lagos. The page on family shunning, the page on finding friends, and the page on the spouse who still believes will all matter especially because the religious community in Lagos is doing so much social and economic work that the absence of it lands sharper than in lower-intensity religious contexts.
If you are in Lagos and you are navigating this carefully — privately deconstructed, publicly compliant, not sure who is safe to tell — Elder X understands that specific, high-stakes version of leaving. His own exit was not safe or simple. He does not push. He does not publish. He just reads and responds.