“God Sanctions Genocide”: A Sentence That Should Never Be Spoken
Those were the words I heard this morning.
7th March 2026. At a Pentecostal men’s fellowship.
And I thought to myself:
The lengths people will go to in order to silence their own consciences.
“God sanctions genocide,” he said.
Probably because the victims are people we have been carefully indoctrinated to hate.
Very well then.
What about the genocide of the Jews under Nazi Germany?
Did God sanction that too?
Ironically, the gentleman making this claim would likely be deeply offended if one were to suggest that the massacres carried out against his own tribe were sanctioned by God.
Of course not.
The devil sanctioned that one.
I suspect he would also reject the idea that God sanctioned the atrocities in the Belgian Congo. Or the German extermination of the Herero and Nama in Namibia. Or the brutalities carried out by British and French forces across parts of West Africa.
Why would he reject those?
Because he has not spent hours listening to propaganda portraying the Congolese, the Herero, the Nama, or West Africans as evil people deserving divine destruction.
But Gaza?
Muslims?
Those are different, apparently.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Where do we go from here?
Are we the salt — or the gall — of the earth?
Are we the light — or the poison — of the world?
The Damage of Lazy Theology
How do we undo the damage done by that lazy theology which has inoculated the hearts and minds of men and made empathy and compassion anathema?
Yet they still consider themselves believers.
Believers in what, exactly?
Is there not already enough gall in the world?
Enough hurt and pain and hatred and bitterness?
What is your belief in Christ for?
#DeepSigh
In this condition we become disturbingly similar to the servant Jesus himself called wicked — the one who buried his talent and justified his fear with these words:
“Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.”
When people in the twenty-first century — especially Africans — claim that God sanctions genocide, the killing of innocent men, women, and children, they are saying something very similar to that wicked servant.
They are saying, in effect:
“You are a hard master. You commit injustices. And because of that, I am afraid to challenge what is done in your name.”
In doing so they abdicate their moral responsibility as Christians.
Worse still, they spit on the graves of their own ancestors.
Such is the blindness that lazy theology — the mother of the prosperity gospel — brings to the table.
Negating the Lord’s Prayer
They unconsciously negate the very prayer Jesus taught his followers:
“Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
Instead it becomes something closer to the opposite:
“May Thy will not be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
Consider this.
If the Lord’s Prayer — taught by Jesus himself — is abandoned, what remains of Christianity worth practicing?
What is your belief in Christ for?
Salvation?
What salvation do you believe in if you break Christ’s second commandment — to love your neighbour as yourself?
You think I have not seen the videos of atrocities against Christians?
Of course I have.
But if you truly understood that the word Christian means Christ-like, and if you truly understood the nature of Christ, then you would be salt — not gall.
Light — not darkness.
#DeepSigh
Christianity Without a Cross
We are a generation shaped by at least five decades of false teaching.
A generation influenced by teachers who preached a Christ without a cross.
A Christ without love.
A Christ without sacrifice.
A Christ who rewarded only those who paid their tithes — not those who strove to be virtuous.
A Christianity of double-double blessings without burden.
The Amalekite Lesson
Now let’s talk about the Amalekites.
Yes, Scripture records that God sanctioned the destruction of the Amalekites.
But the context matters.
For centuries the Amalekites had pursued the destruction of the descendants of Jacob. Amalek himself was a descendant of Esau, and the hostility between the two peoples stretched across generations.
Even as the Israelites came out of captivity in Egypt, the Amalekites attacked them from behind — striking the stragglers: the weak, the old, the exhausted.
Generation after generation they carried forward the bitterness of their ancestor Esau toward Jacob.
Twenty generations later the hatred had not died.
For eight hundred years that hatred had been taught.
Nurtured.
Passed down.
A generation with no personal grievance inherited the animosity of their fathers and continued the war.
The Spirit of Amalek
Yet this ancient episode is now casually invoked to justify modern violence carried out in God’s name.
And those who do so forget something crucial.
In repeating inherited hatred against people they have never personally wronged, they are not escaping the spirit of Amalek.
They are continuing it.
And in continuing it, they perish.
As Scripture warns:
“They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved… therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false.”
(2 Thessalonians 2:9–12)
The Command Christians Cannot Ignore
When Jesus said in Matthew 5:44,
“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,”
he meant every word.
He was not joking.
If you cannot obey a commandment so clearly stated — so fundamental to his teaching — then I must ask that uncomfortable question again:
Why do you bother about Christ?
What exactly is your belief in Christ for?
You cannot pick and choose.
Luke 6:27 repeats the command:
“Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you.”
The command is clear.
The only question is whether we will obey it.
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