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2018-our Hope In Deeds, Prophecies Or Conservatism? by Ronaldinnioh(m): 3:40pm On Dec 31, 2017 |
Nowadays, virtually everyone is a prophet, you do not have
to be so spiritually grinded or own a church before you can
tell the future. Especially for those who understand the
system quite well, all you need are the obtainable facts in
the environs, connected with history, you would predict
scenarios and tell fortunes or its reverse. Possessing a
church would have just been a faster way to money rituals,
just as it is in virtually all the nowadays churches. The
preaching for you to pay offerings and sew seeds is more
than that of evangelism that Christ even commanded. The
scientific predictions of marx, lenin, trotsky, luxemburg and
many others, centuries ago, are very much evident around
us today. They were not religious prophets, rather, social
scientists. Without controversies, their scientific predictions
are very much valid than those of our General Overseers.
Some of who would prophesy by 31st December, only for us
to begin to see the reverse and happenings different from
their prophecies, as early as by January 1st, and you begin
to wonder what went wrong with the validity of their spiritual
endowment. We still remember some who saw vision of a
prosperouos first half of 2016, and others who even said it
was H. Clinton that would win U.S elections. The
introduction of another fuel subsidy removal by Buhari
government in the early first half of the 2016 did not only
wreck lots of Nigerians,especially in the face of little or no
payment of salaries, but, the year 2016 was a financial
calamity throughout the year for mass of Nigerians,
including the pastors themselves, by what the government
tagged recession. My pastor was one who later confessed
how the economy batterred his family. I smiled because
himself had earlier prophesied a prosperous year.
What is hard for the religious leaders and followers to
understand is that, what drives the affairs of any society or
country, to include the fortune and misfortune of her
citizens is far from any spiritual prophecy, hope and
illusions. The economic realities determine those things,
they even determine the so called religious participations.
And by economic realities , we mean the activities of people
aimed at sustenance and comfort, the level of such
sustenance and comfort. The validity of the economic
realities determining religious participation was seen on the
sunday that preceded XMAS, how very large mass of
christians had to sacrifice church service to queue endlessly
at filling stations for PMS. With such an instance, one would
undoubtedly agree to Karl Marx's position, that religion
would wither away by itself with time and by the social
reality which continually make people realize that solution to
economic frustrations does not lie in the churches and
mosques, but in the deeds of mankind to solve them. Quite
funny, our churches prophesy virtually the same lines at
every cross over nights, only for the same people to come
back in the next year and hear the same lines, without their
conditions changed for the better, even sometimes
worsened. If, perhaps, better or worse, it must have been
how well the people have garnered themselves within the
biting economy, and not by the prophesies. The unreliability
of prophesies would have even been confirmed by those
whose conditions were worsened by the economic situation
in the latter year, despite the G.Os' speeches in tongues.
I am a CHRISTIAN and I am also serving the living GOD.
But, who and what determine the people's comfort in 2018
and the years beyond?To some, it is by begging and
praying to government to make good policies, to some, it is
by praying to God and hoping on prophecies for their
success, to some, it is by waiting to vote out APC or BUHARI
in 2019 to have a better Nigeria, while to others it is by
organizing to struggle against the neoliberal policies. As
much as the former strategies would resort into mere good
wishes that may never materialise into realities of the
expected prosperity, but the latter would guarantee all
others.
The 2017 pointed attentions to serious crises in the future,
in fact it was a prelude to more economically violent years
ahead. With such level at which the cost of living has been
falling the living standard of average Nigerian to slump
dwellers, the ruling class is still doing everything possible to
maintain their loots and raise more loots to keep up with
their luxurious greeds. In achieving this, we can only expect
more marginalizations and extortions in all establishments
controlled by the elite class, more unpaid salaries and
allowances, more underfunding and corruption in the
education sector, increased poverty and crime rate, all of
which would force Nigerians to anything devoid of morals to
survive. Consequentially, for those who will be ready to
resist beyond morals, 2018 is a year of heated struggles
and agitations, be prepared! Many institutions are likely to
begin fee increment policies, arguing out their position that
it would no longer be rational to maintain the current fees
based on the condition of the economy. The expected
incessant increment in fees across tertiary institutions and
victimizations that will follow will break out serious
struggles of resistance too.
Rosa Luxemburg was correct when she said it is either
socialism or barbarism. The international war and weapon
threats against one country and the other is an instance,
that without the people taking democratic charge over the
economy and organizing a fight back against the elite
policies of profit over the poor majority, the result would be
lawlessness, bombings, burglary, and lots of more barbaric
happenings. Or what can we say of the Nigerian federal
government that is planning to expend billion of dollars on
fighting insurgency, when people are owed backlogs of
salaries, no local production or infrastructural development
and cannot fund education that can engage people's minds
from terrorism.
Sooner than later, the FGN might have to budget all its
budget on fighting all Nigerians, because with the headless
way they are piloting the country affairs, insurgency for
survival would be rising from every street and every corner
of this country. We shall overcome!I am on my way to
cross-over night in the RCCG, Happy New Year!
We must not forget too; |
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