The Very Same People Build Walls,
Deny Climate, Hate Immigrants, And Claim Christ!
What if the people most convinced they are defending God are, in fact, becoming the very people Christ warned us about?
Perhaps the most frightening question Christianity should force upon us is not, "Who are the enemies of God?" but, "What if I am becoming one?"
The Same Familiar Faces
They are often the same people.
The very same people.
They appear across the same familiar categories:
Climate deniers.
Vaccine rejecters.
Conspiracy theorists.
Immigrant haters.
Wall builders.
Bridge destroyers.
Arrogant, boastful men who despise every serious effort to build a more equitable society. A level playing field where people can pursue their dreams, fulfil their potential, and contribute to the greatness of their country.
Yet they rarely see any of that.
They see only threats.
Their instinct is not to expand opportunity but to restrict it. Not to build bridges but to burn them. Not to enlarge the circle but to decide who is worthy of standing inside it.
And somehow they almost always manage to feather their own nests while preaching the virtues of hard work—virtues they themselves often fail to embody—making the ladder harder for everyone else to climb.
The Religious Paradox
They are also the Bible believers.
Or so they claim.
The Jesus lovers.
The "decent Christians."
At least, that is what they call themselves.
But somewhere along the way, something changed.
Compassion gave way to contempt.
Empathy was replaced by hostility.
Mercy yielded to judgment.
Truth surrendered to conspiracy theories.
And Christ's command to love one's neighbour disappeared beneath a mountain of fear, resentment, hatred, and lies.
Look closely and you will often find the same people who loudly proclaim their Christianity among those spreading division, suspicion, and hostility.
Which raises a rather uncomfortable question.
What exactly are they trying to achieve?
Have They Asked Themselves?
There is a strange irony here.
Much of modern Christianity is shaped by an end-times narrative in which Christ returns to destroy the enemies of God.
I have written about this before.
But have they ever paused to ask themselves a far more unsettling question?
What if they are among the enemies of God?
Not because they embraced the wrong doctrine.
Not because they lost a theological argument.
But because they spent their lives becoming precisely the kind of people Jesus warned us not to become.
People without compassion.
People without mercy.
People who see strangers as threats, the poor as failures, immigrants as invaders, disagreement as treason, and empathy as weakness.
People who speak constantly about Jesus while becoming increasingly unlike Him.
The Question That Matters Most
Perhaps the most frightening question Christianity should force upon us is not:
"Who are the enemies of God?"
It is this:
"What if I am becoming one?"
That question demands far more honesty than pointing fingers at everyone else.
Because before Christianity is about identifying God's enemies, it is about allowing Christ to expose whatever in us still resists His love, His mercy, and His truth.
That examination begins not with our neighbour...
...but with ourselves.
Obi Akaraiwe | Don Kenobi
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