Fẹ̀mi Akọ̀mọ̀làfẹ̀ : Wilful African ignorance, or carefully cultivated stupidity?
Our big poser for today:
At what precise moment did the African mind become so historically vacant, so thoroughly colonized, that it now confuses barbaric geopolitical violence against defenseless people and sovereign states with Christian duty?
How did it happen that children of a continent that tasted the brutal lashes of colonial empire builders, where missionaries arrived with piety on their lips and conquest in their wake, now rise in ignorant applause for bombs falling on Iran, comforted by the childish delusion that Israel is some extension of their church rather than a modern British-generated colonialist project pursuing its cold, genocidal expansionist interests?
Do we blame this on willful ignorance, or is it a carefully cultivated stupidity?
The world knows that Africa is devout. No one disputes that. There are churches on every street corner; sometimes, there are many churches in a single building. But what passes for devotion in Africa today is too often an empty religious theater, loud in prayer and pyrotechnics but silent in thought.
No one teaches critical thinking in Africa.
In Africa, charlatans in priestly garbs roar about “God’s chosen people,” while quietly importing foreign theologies that flatten African history and sanctify imperial power. The result is a congregation (some are holders of PhDs) that cannot distinguish between the Israel of ancient scripture and today’s Israel – a rogue genocidalist state of missiles, intelligence agencies, and scorched-earth military doctrine.
These Christians, many of them formally well-educated, never paused to ask: How can a universal god of love who supposedly created everything on earth turn partisan and have a chosen people?
With these African Christians turning themselves into the most enthusiastic cheerleaders of the Zionist genocidal regime in Occupied Palestine, we must ask: where, exactly, is their moral compass?
When over 170 Iranian children are obliterated in a primary school, reduced to dust beneath concrete and fire by not one, but two Tomahawks, with onboard cameras designed to send clear videos in real-time, where is the outrage of these Christians who gallivant around to preach brotherly love? Where are their fasting, their mourning, and their burning of candles for young innocent souls so wantonly wasted? Where is their performative righteousness that they so easily mobilize against far lesser sins?
What gospel permits selective compassion so grotesque that dead children elicit not grief, but indifference, or worse, approval?
PedoTrump was mentioned several times in the Epstein file with his pictures and videos. Yet, many Africans, because they see in Trump a Christian Crusader, consider him their emperor.
Do we call this heartless callousness Christianity, or is it colonial conditioning wearing a borrowed cross?
At what point did faith become so intellectually bankrupt that it mistakes airstrikes on children for divine alignment?
At what point did African spirituality descend into this moral vacancy, where the suffering of others is filtered through Western approval before it qualifies for empathy?
Or is this Africa’s final humiliation: a people so estranged from their own history of subjugation that they now cheer the subjugation of others, and call it righteousness?
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