Ancestors, Christianity, and the World We Actually Live In
A meditation on Africa, faith, governance, human dignity, and why the treatment of the weak remains the ultimate test of any civilization.
Dear Friend,
Our ancestors were victims of those who wrote the 10 commandments?
Hmmm...
Not victims of their kings and high priests, who offered them up as human sacrifices to false gods that could not save them?
False gods whose priests and kings stood by while they sold their own people to white slave traders?
Those priests, lying scumbags, much like today's evangelicals, were not among the most despicable human beings who ever lived?
I'm learning.
Tell me more.
A Simple Question:
Across the world, many modern legal systems and constitutions reflect principles that overlap with the Ten Commandments, drawing, at least in part, from ideas rooted in that tradition.
You live in a country whose legal and moral foundations were shaped by many of those same precepts, supposedly handed down by the "most despicable human beings who ever lived."
The rights and freedoms you enjoy in your adopted country are built upon ideas that emerged from that tradition.
So why you no stay here, where the spirit of your ancestors still strong well well!!
The Spirit Is Still Here:
The Spirit Is Still Here!!We see it in policing.
We see it in the faces of the homeless and the hungry, those who lie by the roadside too weak to rise even as the sun shines upon them.
We see it in the lunatics left to wander the streets while the so-called leaders drive around in 200-car convoys and budget humongous salaries for themselves, while doing none of the things that ought to be done.
We see it in the indifference.
We see it in the neglect.
We see it in the normalization of suffering.
The spirit is not dead.
Far from it.
You for come stay near the spirit na.
And enjoy their benevolence. 🙂🤣
Why Christianity Remains Dangerous:
It is Christianity, more than any other force in history, that has made the world more livable for the weak.
Not because it glorifies the successful, but because it demands that they remember the forgotten.
Why do you think people like Trump, many Republicans, and even some evangelicals attack it daily while pretending to defend it?
Should I tell you why?
Because Christianity is a hindrance.
A stumbling block.
An obstacle to the "perfect world" they wish to create.
Christianity insists that the weak matter.
That the poor matter.
That the stranger matters.
That the sick matter.
That the prisoner matters.
That the orphan and the widow matter.
It refuses to measure human worth solely by power, wealth, beauty, productivity, or usefulness.
It keeps whispering an inconvenient truth into the ears of empire:
"The last shall be first."
"The least among you is your brother."
"Whatever you do to the least of these, you do unto me."
The measure of a society is how it treats those who can do nothing for it in return.
That is why Christianity remains so dangerous.
Not because it seeks power, but because it questions power.
Not because it worships strength, but because it places limits upon strength.
All those spirituality books you've read haven't taught you these things?
Ancestors, Ancestors...
Ancestors.
Ancestors.
British people no get ancestors?
Or you think say Christianity na British religion?
People across the world hundreds of years ago, recognized wisdom in it. They took a chance on it.
They built institutions upon it.
They built societies upon many of its moral assumptions.
And those are the societies whose protections, freedoms, and opportunities you now enjoy.
Far away from societies built according to the precepts of traditional African religions.
Take a look at Africa, arguably the wealthiest continent on earth in terms of natural resources, and be humbled.
A few days ago, on Monday, 25 May, I had a conversation with a Sierra Leonean on a train in London.
He spoke of young people dying in the streets.
He spoke of drugs.
He spoke of hunger.
He spoke of hopelessness.
Whether every detail was accurate is almost beside the point. The story felt familiar because versions of it can be found across much of Africa.
Young men and women, stripped of opportunity, turn to whatever offers escape.
Communities rich in resources remain poor in outcomes.
Nations blessed with abundance struggle to provide dignity.
That is the tragedy.
And it is precisely what happens when societies fail to build institutions that protect the weak, restrain the powerful, and insist that every human being possesses inherent worth.
The central insight of Christianity is not merely that God exists.
It is that the poor matter.
That the weak matter.
That the stranger matters.
That power must answer to morality.
That rulers are accountable for how they treat the least among them.
Civilizations ignore those ideas at their peril.
History suggests that societies flourish when they embrace them, and suffer when they abandon them.
A Little Gratitude
Be grateful for the Bible.
Be grateful for Christianity.
Be grateful for Christ.
I rest my case.
Don Kenobi | #BigAgendaAfrica
#MyFrancisEssays
#OldManInTheMolue
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