Where is the love?

It's been a long time since i went to church. I still believe but i no longer find satisfaction in the words of pastors and priests. They sound stale, used and abused in my ears. I understand the concept of God and i know what it means to love another as much as i love myself. I walk around everyday and i see the atrocities that men perpetuate in the name of God and i wonder whose god?


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This civilization that we enjoy is built on control and the manipulation of hysteria. If religion as it is now is stripped of its power and the masses are allowed to think for themselves and come to decisions based on the circumstances of their lives and the ambitions they hold dear, many governments will fall, many power structures will collapse.

It is irritating to see how much prayer people pray for the salvation of my country, the same people who will leave the church on sunday only to deliver evil to others on monday. How does God abide all of these things? It would be truly good to see a world where people live what they preach. It would be great to see love manifested among so called saved people.

What surprises me the most is how so called born again christians stand aside, considering all who are not of their faith to be destined for hell. What is the essence of forgiveness, of grace, of a loving God then?

I am not a preacher so let me not disturb you with my inanities. My intention is to speak on love beyond family, beyond religion, beyond marriage. I have seen people be cruel upon other people especially if they know that they can get away with it or because they think no one saw them. I have seen people cheat, lie, steal, kill. In this world, wars have been fought, during which women and children were killed, over something as little as a plot of land, a strip of water, a hole in the ground, a patch of sky.

We fight not because the resources of the earth is finite, though they are, but because we are not satisfied and we cannot abide the idea of another enjoying what we enjoy. The rich wants to remain in control while the poor is striving to get to the top. So even down to the family units, brothers are fighting sisters, husbands are fighting wives because of power and wealth. Where then is the love?

Every time people speak of secession in my country, i wonder at the myopic thought. For a lot of people, secession is the solution to all of Nigeria's problems. It is believed by many that once the country is divided, corruption will end, ethnic crisis will end, unemployment will end, basic infrastructures will suddenly appear but i beg to differ. No one in all their calculations consider the human quotient.

Who will live in these new countries? Will it not be the same people that are living in those areas now? Who will rule these new countries? Will it not be the same thieves and their cronies that are ruling those areas now? Will these new countries do any better for their minority ethnic groups? Will they allow a minority rule in government? Why bother with the farce?

The problem of the earth is not nature, she is a wild thing and has no sense of right or wrong. Nature knows only birth and death. Humans on the other hand,know the difference between right and wrong as laid down by our extant laws. Yet it is the human race who have in all their knowledge brought more damage to the world. So is knowledge good or bad? or is it the human race that lacks the necessary qualification to wield the knowledge they have gathered well?

If the human race know what love is, if we adhere to what we hear our pastors and priests, imams and monks preach then we would live in a better world. We would have better leaders, better followers, better law givers. This is the truth. We hold the key to making this world better but we will not turn the key and open that door because there are those who enjoy the status quo. These people are adherents of one faith or the other and they all hope and believe that they will make heaven.

Sometimes, it feels as if hell will be better. The only way some persons will find peace in heaven is if God does a memory wipe. If we all forget all our crimes and the crimes done unto us on earth, when we get to heaven there will be peace. If not, God will have a hard time convincing so many innocents that heaven is paradise.

I hope for love and for kindness. I am thankful for every bit of love that has been thrown my way. I wish the world can be better. I wish the weak, the sick, the old, the infirm can see no need to be brave just to walk from their kitchen to their trash bin at night. It is a possibility. Whether it will happen in my lifetime is what i doubt. There is too much blood on the face of the earth for us to just start afresh. Restitution must be made and it is like so, the wars continue and never end. amin


Yours always,
Osahon (warpedpoetic)



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The better is the enemy of the good

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