The Paradox of A Nation
We live in a country where secular leaders build chapels and mosques in government houses and in their private homes as a demonstration of their faith in God. We live in a country where some clergymen are engaged as fulltime chaplains to the president and state governors where they become part and parcel of the nation’s problem by joining their masters to worship money. We live in a country where, in a desperate attempt to cover up their wrongdoings, the leaders of the people give the impression that ours is a theocratic state where the laws of the state are believed to be the laws of God. These same leaders turn round to loot the nation’s treasury dry; they turn God and religion into a cloak under which they hide their vicious scramble for power and wealth; they put aside the weightier matters of the law – justice, mercy and good faith. They arrogate the nation’s wealth to themselves and in the process have driven so many people mad, expanded psychiatric hospitals and created untimely graves. In this same country, there lived a man, Dr. Tai Solarin, who claimed that God does not exist and called himself an atheist. But in spite of his atheistic ravings, he lived such a good, caring and selfless life that he was compared to Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Like Mother Teresa who gave her life to the poorest of the poor in India, he also spent his life for the poorest of the poor in Nigeria by fighting against the nation’s self-acclaimed godly leaders. The alarming disparity between the ungodly performances and selfishness of our so-called godly leaders and the righteousness, the patriotism and the commitment of this self-proclaimed atheist to a better Nigeria and to the people’s cause constitute the theme of this book. It is indeed the paradox of our nation.
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