ESSENCE: Interdisciplinary- International Journal of Concerned African Philosophers

Stachistics coined by Charles Ogundu Nnaji (c2012) simply means Religious Statistics of collecting, collating and analyzing physical field data or information on religious and related activities. Stachistics in Population and Political Theology is a related triad which collects and collates religious statistics (i.e. Stachistics) data or information on religious activities by obtaining an unexisting 3/4 data from an available or existing 1/4 percent data (Charles Ogundu Nnaji: 2012, on Christian Industrial Theology and Christian Psychology: Enugu and Abuja: OCPC-super unique). Charles Ogundu Nnaji (2020: Abstract) introduced and propounded the Population and Political Theology theory which says that poverty, disease and unemployment etc, increases religiosity, while religiosity mass produces children it cannot provide for (1Timothy5:8). Thus, when population increase outruns the ability to provide, the following occurs; mass poverty, unemployment, criminality, banditry, kidnapping, violence, dishonesty, cheating, increased religiosity, hypocrisy and massive underdevelopment in human squalor. At this point Stachistics comes in to collect, collate and analyze data on (a) how related-religious and cultural practices increase and influence human populations, (b) How increase in human populations increase religiosity and hypocrisy which results from increased poverty, unemployment, criminality, violence and underdevelopment, since the ability to produce children runs faster than the ability to provide food, jobs, business opportunities, health, shelter, education, security and amenities for helpless citizens of such societies. Certainly, population increase is an economic and social asset, however even the Holy Bible in 1Timothy 5:8, states that “He who cannot provide for his family is worse than an infidel”. Stachistics thus, then collects and analyzes data on how Socionomies ( ie, rival religious communities, related political groups and societies) mass produce children to achieve higher populations to be used as higher voter populations for political election victories over and above rival religious communities and related political groups.

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