Africa As Suggested For Me

The heat wave in the UK goes on and I certainly felt it in the early morning sunshine as I visited the local park returning from the shops. One of the resident swans was busy trying to stay cool pulling feathers out. The lake is covered with duckweed, and the birds are almost static because swimming around through that green gunge is clearly harder. We're even hotter than parts of Africa.

Ah yes, Africa. Can I just point out that before I discuss that part of the world, I'm not racist, despite some accusations from some websites.  Some of my friends and the people I deal with every day have african ethnicity. Skin colour is irrelevant.

But Africa? Well I bring this up because of my recent experience on Facebook. Somebody is suggesting all sorts of pro-african pages. In theory that wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Pointing out that a single negro in America was actually an inventor is suprising given American history, but quite illuminating. That is at least positive. But an American page claiming that Native Americans are actually black? Well, no, they're more closely related to Asians. Oh I see. Everybody comes from Africa.

That was bad enough but an important insight to African culture comes not from America, whose population seem hell bent on claiming they're from somewhere else, but from the Africans themselves and it involves religion. I'm not a Christian. I rejected Christianity many years ago because the whole exercise is nothing but manipulation of congregations and always had been. Christianity Inc was of course a child of the ruthlessly mercantile Roman Empire.

So I received a page from some African who wanted someone to be the first Christian billionaire and all you had to do was pray to Jesus. Excuse me? Since when did Jesus run a lottery? The same guy who overturned the tables of the moneylenders? Worldly wealth wasn't part of the deal. Christianity was always about putting up with the suffering in life because you reserve a place in paradise, not in Heaven, but eternal life on Earth after the Resurrection. The idea of ending up in Heaven is more of a medieval concept.

Then today I got an African Facebook page showing a wallet full of cash lying on the ground. Wow! Jesus sends a gift! It's the same problem. Worldly wealth and hoping Jesus will offer a reward for faithful observance. That wallet was of course placed there for the photo. But then if the photo had shown a real circumstance, the wallet wasn't there because of supernatural intervention, it was dropped by someone. The money belongs to someone else. Morally, taking the money knowing full well it was someone else's is theft. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that something mentioned in the Commandments?

It is now politically correct to blame imperialist European countries for the failures of modern Africa. No, that's nonsense. It's the Africans themselves, who have this corrupt tribal system underlying their democratic, socialist, or militaristic governments. Their take on Christianity is exploitative, not moral, spiritual, or philosophical.  It stinks. 

Wouldn't it be easier to stay private on Facebook and not allow anyone beyond your circle to view your profile or comment on the stuff that you post? 

I mean, there are too many idiots in the world in order to take seriously every post you can come across on Facebook, while the number of freaks is known to be especially high amongst any religious followers  ☺️

Probably, except for reasons I can't go into right now, public awareness is a better plan.