Someone was quoted as saying that “if God didn’t exist, man would have invented him”. One would wonder why we’d do that. Would it be so that our level of morality could be impeccable? Would we do that to help our weaker neighbors? Would we do that so that a few of us could claim exclusive rights to the divine? Would we do it to get revered? If God didn’t exist, would we have been able to resist being God to our people? Perhaps more questions than some people can answer, but some will agree that the answer to all of them is simple.
From time immemorial, man has conquered man, butchered man, enslaved man to mention a few. If you do a little recap, you’d realize that “God” has been man’s reason for all this. It makes me wonder if He (God) has come to evolve, as a certain educated fool (not worthy of mention) proposed. He seems to have gone from wanting the heads of white cocks and lions’ teeth, to wanting the heads of innocent individuals. The thought of this kind of deity presiding over my affairs scares the heavens outta their positions to me.
I mean, lemmi ask you. Who said you shouldn’t steal, take another man’s wife, lie or take a life? Your guess is as correct as mine, God. How then have we made such a merciful, just and divine being seem to lose His integrity by our own actions? Also, several times in history and even in our contemporary, man has openly vowed to protect his god/God. It makes me uneasy, praying for protection from a deity who needs me to protect him. Are we really protecting him or are we protecting the contents of our closets from the public? The Holy Bible is quoted as saying “the heart of man is desperately wicked”.
At this point, a few of you are wondering why you should continue reading this piece. Hear me; If you have ever oppressed, cheated or lied and got away with it, you have at that point imposed yourself as a god of sorts on your victim, and we all are guilty.
To my main topic. As citizens of this great nation, we have suffered a great deal for the sake of other people’s “Gods”. Be it the god of money, lust, envy or self. Even for the God we profess. I was in a short discussion with a couple of concerned citizens, they being from a certain institution under the influence of God, and they argued that their choice of leadership will always be influenced by the institution. Has that ever solved our problems as a nation? Let’s see how many northern leaders we’ve had ( knowing that none of them save one, belong(ed) to the southern institution under God), Yet we northerners have the worst standard of living, the largest outbreak of diseases, and the ever present leprosy. Is our battle still about God? Do we really know what the wrath of God looks like? His grace in modern times has made us take Him for granted.
Our problem in this country has always been the plague of non-committal governance. We’ve let our land slip into the hands of chestless men, men without hearts!! And these people spread beyond ethnic and religious backgrounds. They are the enemy and they (the oppressors) have been God’s enemy from time immemorial. Anytime He waged war through men, it was in response to oppression.
Should God put those of us who speak of our disdain for wrong leadership in positions of leadership, will we change anything? Think about it god.
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