April 26: 2011: An Essay from April 2011: Only the Truth Will Set Nigeria Free: Buhari,

Only the Truth Will Set Nigeria Free

Old post from 2011 I realise little if anything has changed.

26-Apr-2011:

Was Buhari responsible for the post-election violence in northern Nigeria?
Or are we once again avoiding the harder task of tracing effect to cause? This essay examines justice, blame, governance, and Nigeria’s deeper moral crisis.

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National Disappointment
I am deeply disappointed by the inability of Nigerians to analyze issues carefully.

How on earth is Buhari responsible or culpable for the violence in “the states where he won,” or anywhere else?

How are we different from the corrupt Nigerian police?
Why do we expect them to be any different from what they are: murderous, libelous, corrupt, inept, daft, incompetent?

And why do we think we deserve a great country?
Or that we can build one, given our mental indolence and our inability to take an effect and diligently trace it to its cause?

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A Race That Brought Hope

I do not know what those who claim to “know” actually know at this time. But when I look at Buhari, I see an innocent man who has run a good race.

A race that brought hope to a great multitude, mostly impoverished Nigerians.

As I wrote a few days earlier, on April 18, riding a train from Paris to Amsterdam:

“The results from several states were a sham, but he (GEJ) would have won willy-nilly.
The opposition election machine was shambolic, to put it charitably.
There are riots in the Muslim north. I hope they fizzle.
For those poor citizens, their despair can only be imagined. May the Lord give them the hope they need to carry on.
For us, the educated elites, let’s face it, that’s what we are, it’s an academic exercise.
For tens of millions, it’s a matter of life and death.
Of waking up hopeful, or waking up to the same old corruption, inefficiency, no electricity, no water, no healthcare, police harassment, no security, no hope.
I pray the PDP extends its umbrella to them. We want a country we can be proud of.”

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A Train Stop in Antwerp

When the train stopped at Antwerp to offload and take passengers, I imagined the horror of racist skinheads rushing in with clubs and attacking “racial undesirables” like yours truly.

I looked at my nine-year-old son and wondered what I would do to protect him.

As we moved through the Dutch countryside, I was filled with shame at our failures as a people.

The Netherlands is a tiny country with little natural advantage except an iron will. A low-lying, waterlogged land prone to flooding.

The Dutch say:

“God created the earth, but we created the Netherlands.”

What can Nigerians say we have created?

Absolutely nothing, if we discount truce-breaking, grand larceny, lies, election rigging, and kidnapping for “recharge cards.”

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Who Are We?

Who are we?
What are we?
Why are we here?
Where are we going?

Nigeria today is the aggregate of who we are.

We must stop deceiving ourselves.

We are the problem.

Our inability to pursue truth in the matter. The “truth” we speak often depends on how much it benefits us.

Our love of injustice, as long as it does not affect us personally.

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Justice Must Be Systemized

When the Boko Haram leader was killed by the police in what can best be described as an extrajudicial execution, how many reacted?

I expressed outrage at the time. I was shouted down.

“He deserved to die,” they said.

Save your breath. I know the typical response:

“How can you compare innocent youth corpers to a terrorist?”

My answer is simple:

Let us systemize our responses to threats against our existence as a civilized society.

That is what good engineers do.

One rule for one offense.
If that fails, escalate lawfully.

In other words: let us practice justice.

Practice makes perfect.

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The Only Question

Is it possible that the violence in the North was spontaneous and not instigated by Buhari?

If it is possible, why are we not addressing its root causes?

Only the truth will set us free.

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The Dutch Example

The Dutch faced the truth of their geography and acted.

Every day they pump water out of their canals and allow fresh water in. That is why the canals do not become stagnant breeding grounds for disease.

Discipline. Systems. Truth.

That may explain why a small country built one of the world’s strongest economies.

Compare that with Nigeria, blessed with vast resources and far greater population.

Only the truth will set us free.

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A Word to Ayo Oritsejafor

Ayo Oritsejafor, incidentally a relative of mine, surely understands the importance of rigorous analysis.

In one week he determined Buhari’s complicity with certainty?

One week?

Mass uprisings are happening globally. People revolt against bad governance and the absence of social and economic justice.

We must not rush to conclusions.

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Conclusion

I strongly condemn the killings of the innocents in the North.

May God bring swift justice to those responsible.
May He have mercy on the victims.
May He grant their families strength to bear their losses without bitterness.

Amen.

Don Kenobi

The Weaponisation Of “God Can Use Anybody...”

On Lazy Theology and Moral Evasion

A dialogue confronting lazy theology, moral evasion, and the weaponization of

“God can use anybody” to excuse cruelty,hypocrisy, and the erasure of mercy

On Lazy Theology and Moral Evasion

The Old Man said: “The first horseman of the Apocalypse rides a white horse, holding in one hand a huge flag. Its inscription reads: ‘God Can Use Anybody.’ And he gathers unto himself a huge crowd. An army of fervent supporters....”

He paused, then asked,

“Are you thinking what I’m thinking?”

“What are you thinking, sir?” I asked.

He smiled.

“I’ll give you a hint.”

Lazy theology.

The brood of vipers.

(I laughed a little.)

There was a glint in his eyes as he continued.

Imagine That... “God can use anybody…”

Well, yes.

Gravity can cause anything to fall.

Rain can get anything wet.

Fire can melt any ice.

The sun can dry anything, no matter how soaked.

Groundnut oil can fry anything.

Peugeot can overtake Mercedes.

Profound stuff.

When Truth Becomes Inconvenient

When people hate truth, not “the Truth”, but plain, inconvenient truth, they invent every theology imaginable to justify the putrid.

Of course God can use anybody.

He used Messi to showcase the beautiful game.

Before him, Pelé.

So… what’s He using you for?

What Is Your Assignment?

To showcase what, exactly?

Cheap grace?

You think hating on vulnerable people earns you applause from angels and saints in heaven?

Oh, you don’t hate them?

You just walk past them as they lie stricken by the roadside, rushing off to church, knowing, as you must, that the Bible says a good… erm… Samaritan is on his way.

Is that how you justify every atom of oxygen you consume?

Every ray of sunlight sent your way?

Cheerleaders for the Indefensible

What is God using you for, aside from being a cheerleader for the indefensible?

Seriously.

What is your divine assignment?

Defending the indefensible?

Like the wicked servant who buried his talent and then blamed the master?

“Oh, I knew you were a wicked man…”
So I did nothing.

Your actions, dear adherents of lazy theology, whether you know it or not, proclaim one thing loudly:

“Lord, You are a wicked God.” (God forbid)

Mercy, Inverted

WhileTheologians like my wonderful Father Giorgio draw from the deep wells of theology truths such as these, paraphrased:

Underestimating the mercy of God is one of the gravest offenses we can commit against Him. We do a great wrong to God and to His grace when we place punishment before mercy. “God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking His mercy.” To rank God’s justice above His mercy is, he said, a sick thought. And no one can place limits on God’s love.

Read it yourself:
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/bulls/documents/papa-francesco_bolla_20150411_misericordiae-vultus.html

And yet there you sit, clutching one doctrine as though your life depends on it, when what you really need is to let it go.

Let go of defending the erasure of mercy. You who rank God’s justice above His mercy. You who place limits on God’s love.

You substitute the fruits of the Spirit with the works of the flesh, then raise an altar to them and dance around it shamelessly, claiming to worship the true God.

Where was I?

Yes.

You who say, “God can use anybody…” but not the meek, not the suffering, not the marginalised. God cannot use them to teach compassion? To teach empathy?

God can use anybody… For real?

Well. Gravity can cause anything to fall. Rain can get anything wet. Fire can melt any ice. The sun can dry anything. Who would have thought it?

“You rest your case,” I helped him conclude.

“Yes,” he said. “I’ve done my job. They can argue with themselves.”

Don Kenobi

#OldManInTheMolue |#MyFrancisEssays

“God Can Use Anyone”: How a Lazy Theology Misled Christians…

Was It Worth It? Trump, Racism, and the Moral Collapse of Christian Witness

A theological critique of Trump-supporting Christians,

 examining prosperity theology, power, and moral compromise

in the wake of a racist post targeting the Obamas

Years of Self-Deception

For years, you blinded yourselves.

You seared your consciences and blasphemed against the Holy Spirit every time you repeated,

“Oh God can use anyone.”

That was not humility.

It was self-deception.

You mocked God while claiming reverence.

News: Trump Posts Racist Image of the Obamas

Donald Trump has posted an image depicting Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes.

Let that sink in.

So How Do Trump-Supporting Nigerian Pentecostals Feel Right Now?

This is not a rhetorical question.

How do you feel right now?

After years of insisting that character does not matter.

After years of saying, “God can use anyone.”

After years of baptizing vulgarity, cruelty, and open malice with Bible verses.

How do you feel now?

The Christian Institutions That Cheered Him On

How do the priests on EWTN who openly supported Trump feel right now?

How does Scott Peterson feel?

How does Robert Barron feel?

He was appointed to a Trump commission on May 1, 2025.

The commission is said to assess threats to religious freedom and recommend policies to protect it.

So let us ask a simple, honest question.

What Exactly Is the Threat to Religious Freedom?

Apart from Barack Obama’s misguided attempt to require Catholic institutions to include abortion coverage for employees, can anyone name another concrete threat to religious liberty in America?

One.

Just one.

Not vibes.

Not talking points.

Not culture-war hysteria.

A real, documented threat.

The Cyrus Excuse

“Yes, Cyrus was an unbeliever,” you say.

But you forget something crucial.

Cyrus was never called a scoundrel.

He was never known as a liar.

He was a man of integrity, widely respected, acknowledged even by his enemies as a wise and just ruler.

Scripture does not present him as vulgar, cruel, or morally reckless.

He was an instrument in God’s hand, yes,

but also a man whose public life did not contradict the role he was given.

You turned that historical moment into a theological escape hatch.

Why You Did It

Why?

Because you hate the truth.

And deeper still, because you have no love for Jesus.

What You Actually Love

What you love is prosperity.

A mechanized Jesus.

A faith reduced to formulas.

A covenant rewritten as a transaction.

You convinced yourselves that if you aligned your giving, your declarations, and your politics with your invented “principles,” God would be bound to perform His side of the bargain.

And what is that side?

To prosper you.

That is your gospel.

A Gospel Without the Cross

You welded Malachi 3:10 to the New Testament without fear of God.

You brushed aside Christ, the Cross, suffering, obedience, repentance, and holiness.

Outside the promises you invented, you truly have no love for Jesus.

None.

A Word on Overreach and Consequences

Tough love: I think gay people pushed their luck.

They got heady from GKW.

They failed to count their blessings.

And yes, they FAFO’d.

But none of that justifies the moral bargain you made.

You did not defend religious liberty.

You defended indecency.

And now the fruit is on full display.

Jesus Has a Word for The Self-Righteous 

Jesus has a word for people like YOU.

He calls them Satan.

The same word He used for Peter when Peter recoiled from the Cross.

“No suffering.”

“No sacrifice.”

“No death.”

“That is not my kind of Messiah.”

That, in essence, was Peter’s protest.

As Fulton J. Sheen once observed, it took scarcely ninety seconds for our Blessed Lord to move from calling Peter “Blessed” to calling him “Satan.”

The denial of the Cross is a grievous matter.

And it is immaterial how much grace one may have previously enjoyed.

This Is the Reckoning

Please, come.

Come.

Let us reason.

This is what you aligned yourselves with.

Not reluctantly.

Not under duress.

But enthusiastically.

History is watching.

And so is the Church you claim to love.

Look at the image again.

Do not rush past it.

Do not excuse it.

Do not spiritualize it away.

Look.

Then ask yourself, quietly and honestly:

Was it worth it?

Was it worth it?

BigAgendaAfrica [AudioBook]: Why Nigeria Fails....

 

BigAgendaAfrica:

Why Nigeria Fails, and What Must Come First

Audiobook link at bottom

Nigeria’s Crisis Is Moral, Not Technical

It is moral.

We have tried the technical explanations for decades.
We have blamed colonialism.
We have blamed leadership.
We have blamed constitutions.
We have blamed corruption, underfunding, bad data, bad luck.

And yet the pattern persists.

Systems are built.
Budgets are passed.
Reforms are announced.

And nothing changes.

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The Refusal This Book Begins With

This book begins with a refusal.
A refusal to pretend that we do not see what is happening.

Because silence is not neutral.
Silence has a price.
And Nigeria has paid that price, not because we were powerless, but because we chose silence.

Silence in words.
Silence in action.
Silence dressed up as patience, tolerance, or realism.

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The Cost of Silence

What does silence cost a nation?

For me, this is not abstract.
It is personal.

How can I claim to love a country that gave me everything when it still could, and say nothing as it lies ravaged by citizen-enemies?

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Belief Without Diagnosis

For years, I tried to do two things.
First, to believe.
Second, to help change mindsets.

But belief without diagnosis is not hope.
It is denial.

And hope without truth is merely a delay in repair.

Diagnosis must precede hope.
Always.

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The Harder Question Behind “Doing Something”

People often ask, sincerely, what can we do?

Doing something sounds noble.
But it hides a harder question.

Doing what, exactly?

What is the true injustice in Nigeria that is worthy of action?
What is the single most critical just thing to do in the pursuit of justice?

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The Uncomfortable Answer

My answer is simple, and uncomfortable.

The most important thing we can do, here and now, is to harden our moral core.

Because our central problem as a nation is not technical incompetence.
It is widespread moral failure.

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A Sentence I Should Not Have Said

I once said something I should not have said.
But I did.

I said we have become indistinguishable from animals in the jungle.

Let me explain.

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The Falomo Bridge Incident

On a weekday evening in Lagos, traffic slowed to a crawl on Falomo Bridge.
The car in front of me moved slightly.
At that moment, a car to my right cut into my lane and took my position.

Three seconds later, the entire line stopped.

I stepped out of my car, calmly, walked to his window, and asked him to wind it down.

He did not.
He simply pleaded.

He was wearing a suit and tie.
He looked like a banker.

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Refusing to Call This Normal

Many will scoff at this.
Good for them.

But I refused to accept that this is normal.
I refused to accept that jungle behaviour is the price of survival.

In a very real sense, I refused to commit injustice against Nigeria by doing nothing.

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How Change Actually Begins

That is how change begins.
Not with slogans.
With refusal.

Refusal to reward disorder.
Refusal to normalise loss.
Refusal to adapt endlessly to failure and call it resilience.

Because adaptation, when forced, is not strength.
It is surrender dressed as virtue.

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Why Moral Action Matters More Than We Think

And here is the part most people miss.

Moral action spreads.

If one thousand people refused disorder each day in Lagos, that would be thirty thousand moral interruptions in one month.
Extend that across the thirty-six state capitals, and you have over a million in a single month.

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The Arithmetic of Moral Compounding

But it does not stop there.

Moral action compounds.

If each person inspires just two others per day, the number doubles every twenty-four hours.
In twenty-eight days, one act becomes over two hundred and sixty-eight million.

That is not poetry.
It is arithmetic.

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How Nations Are Actually Lost

Nations are not lost in one grand collapse.
They are lost through millions of small abdications.

And they are rebuilt the same way.

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The Psychology of Extraction

Nigeria’s leaders do not lack intelligence.
What they lack is intention.

In their private psyche, Nigeria is not a nation to be built.
It is a farm.
A farm of low-hanging fruit.

Harvest here.
Live there.

Extraction becomes policy.
Neglect becomes routine.
Silence becomes survival.

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This Is Not an Accident

This is not an accident.
It is arithmetic.
It is science.

And until we confront this honestly, no restructuring, no election, no saviour will matter.

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No Utopia, Only Trajectory

This book does not promise utopia.
It promises trajectory.

But trajectory begins with one thing: The Refusal To Do Nothing

Don Kenobi 

January 2026

Audio book link: https://youtu.be/5wEZ-mXRPlk?si=FNkvPFwSeff6fZSs

On Al Jarreau and Boston: How Beautiful Music Explained a Beautiful Country

On Al Jarreau and Boston

Different Sounds, the Same America

From bootleg cassettes in Nigeria to a Houston highway.

A personal essay on discovering Boston before the internet, music as national memory, and how a two-minute song captured the enduring beauty of America.

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Al Jarreau First

Al Jarreau – Your Sweet Love.
Classic music. Listen for yourself:

https://youtu.be/1uz7uhBatCQ?si=AvzXglToitzGwGS2

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Boston, the Mystery Band

Now Boston.
That was a mystery band.

Who remembers those bootlegged “Cosmos” cassettes? Properly packaged, complete with the real album sleeves reproduced inside. They were ₦3, about two dollars at the time. Quite affordable, I must say.

That was how I was introduced to Boston, the rock band.

Their music was just great. More Than a Feeling, A Man I’ll Never Be, on and on.

This was before the Information Age, so almost nothing was known about them. Just two albums, and that was it. Someone even said they were all MIT PhDs. Wow.

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London, Two Decades Later

Fast-forward about two decades, in London, with Uwa, who also loved Boston. Perhaps he introduced them to me, or re-introduced them.

So there we were. He was showing me around London, and then he put on a song.

“That’s Boston!” I exclaimed.

“Yep,” he confirmed. “You cannot miss the sound of that guitar.”

So I finally asked, who the hell were these guys?

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Digression: FGC Warri and Rock Music

FGC Warri boys were rock music connoisseurs, true aficionados. They knew rock the way most of us knew reggae. Eugene Ikpo (RIP) introduced me to Styx, The Best of Times and other great songs.

And yes, Uwa was an FGC Warri boy.

End of digression.

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Houston, Richmond Avenue

Years later, with the iPhone and Apple Music now invented, I downloaded every Boston song I could find. And this is the point of the whole story.

Living in Houston, driving along Richmond Avenue in the direction of the Galleria, just before Chuck E. Cheese, the Boston song Destination came on.

There was a used car lot, I think, one of those with prices written in bright colours across the windshields. Planted in its premises was the tallest flagpole I had ever seen, and possibly the largest American flag legally permitted to be flown. And there it was, fluttering with abandon in the wind.

For some reason, this thought came to me:

What kind of nation inspires men to feel and write songs like this?

Destination is a very short song, barely two minutes long, but in those two minutes it sealed my love for America and filled me with awe for that country.

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Why Al Jarreau?

Why post a song by Al Jarreau, yet speak entirely about Boston?

Because this song by Al Jarreau fits into the same category.

Being a musician myself 😜, and a writer too, I listen behind songs. I try to see behind the facade. Great songs are facades of sorts, great facades. Someone once said the map is not the territory. Words are not the thing itself. Lyrics work the same way.

Al Jarreau sings:

“Your sweet love makes me realize
That heaven is right here in your arms.”

Come on.

But you get my point.

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Final Thought

Enjoy this great song, and remember this:

America is, and will always be, a beautiful country.

This raging protuberance will disappear. It will leave a scar, no doubt, no different from chickenpox scars. But just as catching chickenpox once immunizes you, America will be immunized against fascism after this dark night of its soul.

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Don Kenobi
Writer. Bassist.

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Mammon and the Counterfeit Church: Why False Christianity Is Dangerous

Why False Christianity Is Dangerous

This essay exposes Mammon as a counterfeit lord,

one that imitates God while demanding loyalty

through wealth and power.

It argues that false Christianity, not rival religions,

 is the greatest threat to the Gospel, 

because it replaces Christ with Mammon under the language of blessing.

The reader is left with Jesus’s uncompromising verdict:

You cannot serve both.

We must be vigilant.

Scripture is playing out.

The Ancient Office

Scripture is playing out, right before our eyes.

The Antichrist is an ancient office.

Fully staffed.

Its leadership handed down from generation to generation.

Of course.

It is anti-Christ and therefore operates through mimicry of the true Church.

It is not difficult to imagine Lucifer saying to his favourite disciple:

“Thou art Iscariot,

and upon that sinking sand,

I shall build my anti-church.”

False Christianity is a greater threat than any other religion.

Others may oppose Christianity openly, on the basis of doctrine.

False Christianity does something far worse.

It seeks to replace Christ with Mammon.

Mammon. What Is It?

Mammon is a biblical word for wealth treated as a master.

It is not merely cash in your pocket.

It is money that claims your heart.

Jesus puts it starkly:

“You cannot serve God and Mammon.”

He does not say, “You should not.”

He says, “You cannot.”

Because Mammon is money elevated into a rival god.

It does not merely make men desire money.

It trains them to pursue it sinfully.

Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

All that stealing going on,

in churches and in the secular world,

where money is pursued and obtained in ways that corrupt judgment and deform the soul?

The Sinful Reordering of the Soul

Mammon corrupts not by force, but by re-ordering priorities.

Profit outranks truth.

Outranks justice.

Outranks mercy.

Outranks human dignity.

Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

One word: Elmina.

Two words: Elmina Castle.

When profit outranks human dignity, it does not matter how large the Bibles carried, or how heavy the crosses worn.

Men act in the name of their true god.

Mammon.

How Mammon Works

When Mammon rules, the conscience is dulled gradually.

Never all at once.

It starts small:

• a half-truth

• a delayed payment, carefully justified

• a harmless compromise

Nothing dramatic.

Nothing that feels like evil.

Just enough to move the soul, inch by inch.

When Greed Is Baptized as Wisdom

When Mammon rules, greed is baptized as wisdom.

Scripture is misused as camouflage.

“For the children of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the children of light.”

Luke 16:8

What Christ spoke as warning becomes justification.

Exploitation becomes “strategy.”

Deception becomes “positioning.”

Oppression becomes “market reality.”

What Scripture calls covetousness, Mammon renames ambition.

The Instrumentalization of People

Under Mammon, people cease to be neighbours.

They become assets or liabilities.

Means to an end.

Blockers.

The moral question shifts.

Not “Is this right?”

But “Is this profitable?”

This is not neutrality.

It is moral collapse disguised as efficiency.

Mammon’s Discipleship

When Mammon rules, righteousness is punished.

Its disciples are taught, patiently and repeatedly, that:

• honesty costs money

• integrity slows growth

• conscience limits scale

And so the progression unfolds.

First, righteousness is ignored.

Then ridiculed.

Then resisted.

Finally punished.

Not from cruelty.

From necessity.

The Systematization of Sin

Mammon does not merely tolerate sin.

It normalizes it.

Systematizes it.

Rewards it.

A good master forms virtue.

A false master forms vice.

Two masters.

Two logics.

Two destinations.

Jesus does not say, “You should not serve Mammon.”

He says, You cannot.

The only real choice is to take Jesus at His word,

or attempt to prove Him mistaken.

I rest my case.

Don Kenobi

#OldManInTheMolue

#MyFrancisEssays

It is impossible for a true CHRISTIAN to see Islam as the ENEMY.

It is impossible for a true CHRISTIAN to see Islam as the ENEMY.

Impossible.

Truly impossible.

If we need an example, we already have one.

Look to Jesus and the Samaritans, a people hated and despised by the Jews of His day, yet lifted up by Jesus as exemplars of good conduct.
He could have adopted the prejudices of His time.
He could have mirrored the fears, the hostilities, the easy divisions.

He did not.

Instead, He stayed with them.
In their city.
At their invitation.
Teaching them.

That alone should slow us down.

Christians have always known that they would be tested.
Every generation has been told to expect it.
Every believer grows up hearing it.

Persecution is not new.
Pressure is not strange.
Opposition comes with the territory.

So the question is not whether Christians will be targeted.

They always are.

The deeper question is how we respond when it happens.

Because the real enemy of Christianity has never been merely outside the gates.

It is closer than that.
More familiar.
More comfortable.

It hides in plain sight.

It speaks Christian language.
Quotes Scripture.
Invokes the name of Jesus.
Builds churches.
Sings worship songs.

And yet, somehow, quietly,
it rejects the Cross.

This is not a rival religion.
This is something more dangerous.

A counterfeit.

A Christianity emptied of obedience.
Crowns without thorns.
Power without repentance.
Blessing without transformation.
Authority without submission to truth.

Islam does not pretend to be Christianity.
False Christianity does.

That is why Jesus warned us, again and again.

Not about enemies from outside,
but about deception from within.

Not wolves battering down the gates,
but wolves already inside,
standing at pulpits,
calling themselves shepherds.

Somewhere along the way, we were sold a gospel without a Cross.
A prosperity gospel.
A promise of comfort without sacrifice.

And it worked.

It trained believers to respond to pressure the way heathens do.
Shouting.
Threatening.
Calling down fire.
Reacting as though Christ never taught us another way.

Yet mature Christians have always known something else.

Persecution, rightly received, becomes an opportunity.

An opportunity to let light shine before those who hate us,
until hate is disarmed,
until hostility is softened,
until love has room to enter.

Every generation will be tested.
Even the false ones.

Especially the false ones.

Like the seven sons of Sceva, exposed not by persecution, but by confrontation with reality.
Counterfeits cannot stand forever.

So the real issue keeps returning.

How do we respond?

With outrage?
With threats?
With fire and brimstone, as though we were pagan priests guarding a jealous god?

Or with faithfulness.
With kindness.
With a strange, unsettling blessedness.
With a willingness to reach out, to make peace, directly or through emissaries.

What is so dangerous about charity?

People of God, listen carefully.

I am tired of repeating what should already be obvious.

Our refusal to behave as Christians has created a new and deadly problem for the Church.
Antichrists are now presenting themselves as “defenders of Christianity.”

This does not strengthen the faith.
It corrodes it.

These are difficult times.
And they will grow darker still if those who carry the light refuse to shine.

Decades of false teaching have raised a generation that no longer recognises the Shepherd’s voice.
So every stranger sounds like a saviour.
Every wolf looks like a deliverer.

The antichrist does not arrive denying Christ.
He arrives replacing Him.

And many applaud,
because the replacement demands less,
costs less,
asks less.

So now, since wolves crowd the pulpit,
the flock must rise early
and go searching again.

Searching for the Good Shepherd.

And when they hear His voice,
they will know.

Because Scripture says:

“I am the Good Shepherd. I know My sheep, and My sheep know Me.”
John 10:14

Jesus is the Good Shepherd.
He knows His sheep.

And His sheep,
even now,
still know Him.

A word is enough.

Don Kenobi
Don D’Baptist

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