The Eleventh Commandment:You Shall Not Keep Silent In The Face Of Injustice 2
What is the use of theology if, in a place like Nigeria where majority of the citizens are reduced to subhuman conditions by the greed and selfishness of the rich and the powerful, it fails to teach us to identify with the poor and the less privileged in order to lift them from the dungeons of poverty, misery and despair and give them hope? What is the use of our theological studies and chains of degrees if we can allow narrow-minded political opportunists who find themselves in the corridors of power by means of violent election rigging to dictate the pace, the tune and the contents of our Sunday sermons? What is the use of our theological studies if all that they teach us is to tell people who are unjustifiably reduced to subhuman conditions by those who claim to be their leaders that they should patiently remain in that subhuman condition, silently watch their oppressors and keep praying until they die so that they will go to heaven where there would be no suffering? But while they pray and wait for the heaven over there, we ourselves are busy enjoying our own heaven here on earth? It is not enough for us to dispense love and forgiveness in our sermons as one would dispense drugs to a fever patient in a callously oppressive environment without attacking the very structures that defer forgiveness and make love of neighbour impossible. We are not only bound in charity to help the poor and to feed the hungry. We are more importantly bound in justice to ask to know why a society that has enough to help the poor and feed the hungry should be breeding poverty, hunger and misery. It is a crime to be silent in the face of injustice.
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