The Priest Who Offended the Narrative

Calling Everything Genocide Helps No One

Because we hate to think, because we hate to solve problems, we keep reaching for easy answers. Little pigeonholes into which we cram the complex problems that torment us.

Thus, while the Romans built aqueducts two thousand years ago to supply their cities with water, Lagos — two thousand years later — still cannot provide water for its citizens. Not just Lagos. Not a single city in Nigeria.

And now we have a new villain. The Governor of Benue State. The state most affected by the alleged genocide.

The Christian community attacks him because he dared to question the “Genocide Against Christians” narrative.

Here is a priest.
A Catholic priest no less.
Being accused of betraying his own people…

How bad must things get before they get any better?

We have sunk to a level of depravity where the murder of a young girl in church by terrorists was celebrated simply because she had said, days earlier, that there was no genocide.

Deeply troubling.

We have a problem.
We cannot solve it.
So we attack anyone who questions our definition of the problem.

Yet that is precisely the issue — our definition of the problem.

Here is what I found when I engaged a Virtual Research Assistant:

Quote:
If terrorists:
• attack for ransom
• attack for land
• attack for resources
• attack for political leverage
• attack to punish the government
• attack indiscriminately
• attack everyone they see regardless of identity

It is not genocide.

It may be:
• war crime
• crime against humanity
• terrorism
• ethnic cleansing
• mass atrocity

…but not genocide.
Unquote.

What does calling it “genocide” automatically do to help solve the problem?

Yet those who insist on calling it genocide will not, even for a millisecond, consider that what is happening in Gaza might also be genocide. They have a neat little reply: “But they started it.”

It is exasperating — this scourge of self-hatred that finds expression in hatred for others.

I am frightened by all this, and if I were a Muslim, even more so.

This is what we Christians excel at —  and what we have perfected RANK HYPOCRISY.... 

We have adopted the mindset of Christian Supremacy, a mirror-image of White Christian Nationalism, and have become foot soldiers of its hidden agenda.

Can we please press the RESET button?
Take a deep breath?
And choose to say or think only what can make things better —
what can make better things?

#dk