Saturday, December 11, 2010

Religion or Activism – What Hope?


                                                                   HOPE

When a real activist channel his energy towards liberating the oppressed and making injustice unbearable for the elemental demons in high places through his unrepentant constructive radical revolution, a dynamo is set in place. The obvious is that those who cannot bear the heat cannot create a window nor burst either, they will melt with such continued heat. The Revolution in Nigeria and Africa against the agents and forces of injustice, marginalization, impoverishment, imperialism, post neocolonialism, poverty and underdevelopment has only just began, we are yet to see the full ray of explosive mental revolution. The battle field is already prepared, and its actors are scheming to get some relevance in time to come.

                        Religious and political hypocrisy continue to wreck
                        environmental degradation and other ills


If I can understand clearly to channel our active energy towards Christ’s kingdom, is to the Christians the best practices, do you agree?  Will unveil us towards the religious allegories of Christianity, Islam and other sects.


In the order of religious men and women and their varying opinion lies the reason why the downtrodden in our society has remained in this precarious conditions, woes and continued oppression. It is men who have blindly, ignorantly and preposterously used their intellectual resources for the promotion of sanity, economic and social developments; and for the defense of the voiceless and the powerless that has seasoned the aroma of injustice, and these men hide under the cloak of religion, they continue to perpetrate the most heinous crimes against humanity and perhaps against the advancement and development of their societies such as so many religious men/women in the name of their God have exhibit; from historical past till recent, thousands have died – the best potentials have been wasted in the pursuit of a deceptive dream; nations have been tore apart, children made orphans, to name but a few.

From the height of hypocrisy they speak volume and continue to deceive many. As an activist certainly I am not yet moved by their past exploit, stories and proofs of their callousness, and indeed they are not the group to tell me to speak before I can speak, perhaps in the place of power.
In view of the following links lies the over-zealousness and deception by religious men, with Christianity take the pivotal/front seat:



If only would these religious men/women think otherwise, to genuinely defend the poor instead of exploiting them with their tithes, offerings, Islamic zarcat fees, Nevada sutra, Tao opulence  will they be seen as fighting the interest of the almighty God which they allegedly profess in all their denudations.

                                                          FREEDOM

An activist must speak against injustices and must be ready to defend it even with his life, I’ll rise in the dead of the night where I am classed as a loner, trapped in the midst of gullible praise singers and while I will speak against the vain utilization of our commonwealth, against evil domination of the collective will of the people by the microscopic few, I am fully aware of the consequences, of being ceased, arrested against my Will, or worst murdered in cold blood in the altar of injustice.

The barbarians of the society in two categories, the few political cult class, and the fanatical, extremist and fundamentalist religious cult class; these two class rule the society and leave the masses to wonder in poverty and extreme annihilation. As for the religious men, they are sent to calm the nerves of the masses, and pervert ignorance and religious stupidity. They will often time surmount their hypocritical tone to advise the same ignorance masses on what they should do, at least to pray more, fast more, pay more tithes and offering, attend holy pilgrims, and display their psychological oratory as if they are God!

                        GLOBAL RELIGION - ITS EFFECTS ON WORLD PEACE

 
Unfortunately religion has been one of the contributing factors to our pit iable abysmal dismal, a lugubrious tendencies that has drag our democracy and good governance thus far. My Take in this is, the voice of the people is the voice of God, and if we must truly direct our energy towards what is term "Christ's Kingdom" the best way is taking side with the wishes and aspiration of the people, who Christ admonish us to defend, and came to redeem, at least the Christian bible talked so much about this facts, or didn't it?

 
                                      RELIGION AND JUSTICE

Christians, Muslims, pagans and freethinkers etc are suppose to work harmoniously and collectively for the betterment of this country and our continent in perspective, yet we see some of these actors and panaceas of this religious categories causing untold sufferings through lies, violence, troubles, corruptions and other unjust participations in the affairs of our nations and Africa.

 

For those who truly profess Christianity, Islam, Tao, how many people in your locality who are suffering in the hands of your governments and its officials?  Have you thought of a move toward the people’s liberation by speaking the truth in the  presence of men who have subscribed to the unjust perpetuations? Ah, you don't need to answer it, perhaps you will tell me, "I will leave God to fight for me and them" or "God will take His cause and redeem his people", that's some of the impulsiveness that has delayed justice so far.

 
Reading the works of Thomas Sankara, Che Guevara, Nkrumah, Garvey etc are insightful, and while these men were religious men, they put down their belief systems into a metamorphosis of a pure religion without bigotry or unflinching standards. "The brotherhood of Humanity" was their keyword, and by such romantic solidarity they moved to greats heights of freedom by sacrifice. Our Christ was one of these great men, and if he had not sacrifice his Will, and willfully and singlehandedly stood in the ways of the barbaric forces of his time through spiritual and physical activism, no man I presume will hear of the Christian faith of today.

Even one of Christ numerous apostles, Paul of tarsus emulated him, and did greatly. Apostle Paul in the bible was a great radical who was actively involved in the liberation of his time, that was mono-culturally religious and tied to the roman hegemony.

This is the commonsense behind the defense line of activism, and if we are not convinced about this thrust cases, then no need to go into it. When you see a man doing the great job of activism, his acts and diligence is obvious for it speaks for itself. I am not talking about those who want to impress people and fool the people, I am referring to those who selflessly take to the side of justice, democracy and freedom. Gani, Saro Wiwa, Professor Ake, Adaka Boro, Nkrumah, Amilca Cabra, Patrice Lumumba, Fela and now we in the same line of great works will do the bidding of the people, the masses, the impoverished and marginalized, even though we are killed by these demons called politicians or the forces of darkness, many will replace us, and continue our struggle until victory is achieved for the generation and world we all envisage. We must dare to invent the future, Sankara once said, and I reiterate that we must continue with the daring.

I know one is sure for certain, if we are killed unjustly, according to Sankara, 7 million will rise in our stead. They may perish us and drag or dismember our bodies and command the vultures to eat will, But certainly so, they may have completed their task. They cannot kill us in entirety insofar as our Ideas lives on. Read the lives of Great African heroes, the facts are there. No accomplishment is greater than dying for justice, and our eulogies being immortalized in the lips of endless generations.

Comrades, country men and women, Africans home and abroad, spot on, for even Jesus, Mohammed, Chrisna, Zoroaster, etc are all with us towards justice.....Spot on!!!




They better be joking, and if I understand the social trend, men like some phony clergy men/women, imam, traditional practioners, etc are those that continue to use the name of God, Allah, Ifa, Christ, Mohammed to render deception, while they would have channeled the same gift to that sublime direction God created them for. What a pity!

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