NOT WITHOUT POLITICS........

NOT WITHOUT POLITICS............
Is't because we PLAY POLITICS so Dirty in Nigeria the reason why everyone seem to see Politics as Anti-Christian? But I've seen people lobbying to be voted in as Station/Parish Council and PCC members in my home Catholic and Anglican Churches respectively. I've also seen people canvassing with their "Pretentious Righteousness" to be elected as Elders, Deacons and Deaconesses in our "New Generation" Churches in my new abode. To the best of my knowledge, wherever there are "LOBBYING", "CANVASSING" and "ELECTING", there exists "POLITICS". And the story of "Casting of lot" abounds in the Holy Bible, even in the replacing of Judas Iscariot.
Yeah, some people will like to introduce "Holy Spirit" to the Scene now. Of course, Holy Spirit should guide and lead us in ALL our everyday actions and utterances, including POLITICS. But because we go with Attitudes from Monday through Saturday that are completely different from our Sunday Attitudes, and the Holy Spirit not being INCONSISTENT in Character has decided to Exempt His Holy Self from most of our Actions and Utterances including Politics. That's why the Catholic Diocese of Ahiara is the News since the recent past.
But come oooh, if all that's in Church is "Holy Spirit" and NO "Politics", why all the "Black or White Smoke" and "Conclusive and Inconclusive Conclave"?? How're they arrived at, and what's used to "Untie" the Draw??? You and I know that there's NO WAY Holy Spirit can convey Two or more names for ONE "Holy See" Position.
So my dear "Umunnem", let's STOP deceiving Ourselves and call a Spade; "SPADE!".
If we really want to Play "POLITICS" devoured Rot, let's start this second to make HOLY SPIRIT part and parcel of ALL our Everyday Activities, Dealings, Transactions and Utterances. It's only then that we can be able to Elect a Bishop or even Ordain a Priest without "Politics" and "Rancour".
I know many will not like this, but "Okwuni ga n'ekwu uche ya, omeni emee ihe ri ya nma".

Figure of Speech

"FIGURE OF SPEECH" or "FIGURATIVE PREACHING and PRAYING"???
I so much thank God that there are no places in our present configuration of world map called Babylon or Sodom and Gomorrah. Sincerely, I won't like to hail from such places even as the richest man in the world, not only due to their Biblical incidents but mainly because of the kind of "Metaphorical" statements that would've been made out of them.
What the words "Egypt" and "Jericho" are presently suffering in the hands of some of my follow Christians should give us concern. These Christians seem to forget that there are people and devoted Christians still living in these climes. The way they go about praying that "all the Egyptians you see in your life today, you'll see them no more" as if the word "Egyptians" do not mean Real Men and Women in our present era. Same goes for "Jericho" and its wall.
Yeah, The Holy Bible has records of incidents both good and bad of these places just as it has of many other places but why some Christians decided to associate these places with only the bad, is what I'll "Thank" someone for explaining to me. Moreover, I'm yet to see or read in The Holy Bible where these "Nouns" were used in any form of PRAYERS. If there's, I'll "Thank" again anyone that'll point it out for me.
So my dear brethren, let's STOP this OVERFLOODING of our Christian Principles which GRAMMATICAL Concord and Aesthetic.................and CONCENTRATE only on Praising, Worshipping and Praying to Almighty God.
O ho! Mine is to say it "as Bluntly as" I'm Inspired.

Sunday Evening Sermon.......

Please my dear friends and readers, I really need clarification on this.........
I'm a Christian and by His infinite Grace, a strong believer of Jesus Christ and His teachings, which one of the most pivotal is on PRAYERS.
In His Gospel as recorded by St. Matthew chapter 6 verses 5 and following, He gave specific rules on how to PRAY. In chapter 7 verse 9 through 11, He compared PRAYER to a son asking from his earthy father. And my dictionary tells me that PRAYER is an act of communicating (communing) with Almighty God. But the way some people PRAY these days, makes me wonder if they're "Communing" with God or "Commanding" God or out rightly "Supplicating" to Satan.
As Christ Jesus rightly pointed out in His allegory, no "Reasonable" son can ever ask from his earthly father by "SHOUTING". But some people now SHOUT to Almighty God in the name of PRAYERS. Any Prayer that's not laced with Shouting ingredients of "Code-mixing" and "Pitch-switching" in Grammar Finesse and Voice Synthesis is no longer seen as "Powerful" or should I use "Dangerous Prayer" as they call it now. People now PLAY "Shouting Game" in the name of PRAYER, and see those of us who don't SHOUT as not "PRAYING". Accounts of Jesus Praying abounds in the Gospel but none recorded His words because they weren't heard as He never SHOUTED. That was why His Apostles after watching Him PRAY in the Gospel of Luke chapter 11 verse 1, asked Him to teach them how to PRAY. It's obvious that if He had been SHOUTING His PRAYERS, they would've crammed His wordings and wouldn't had asked Him to teach them how to PRAY.
Another issue is who to direct our PRAYERS. Our Saviour Jesus enjoined us to ask our Heavenly Father (Almighty God) everything in His name. That's to say that ALL PRAYERS should be channelled to God, while we wait for Him to take actions on them as answers to our Prayers. But the manner, mode and way some people Pray now makes one wonder if they're not directly "supplicating" to Satan. The Bible made us to know in the Book of Jude verse 9 that even Arcangel Michael directed his demand on the rebuke of Satan to Almighty God to handle. But some people have made it a habit of Prayer to be directing Prayers to Satan in the name of challenging him to a contest, while leaving God out of the equation.

"KNOW NO MERIT" Syndrome

Adverse Effects of "Impunious" Manipulations......otherwise called "PDP Syndrome"
Since the draws, matches and victories of UEFA Champions' League, I've (and sure most of U also) read many of analytical combinations and permutations on how FIFA via UEFA influenced the pairing of the teams towards maximising profits at the Final Match from attendance. Not a few Football-Loving Nigerians turned Analytical writers.
First, they cried "PDP!" when the two Spanish teams weren't paired to play in the Semi-Final. They accused FIFA via UEFA of trying to set up another "Classico" with the Final. When the 1st-legs of the crucial matches were played and the two German clubs won, these unfortunate analysts suffering from this PDP- Syndrome started calculating match dates; 23+4+13= 40 to them meaning Bayern Munich 4 and Barcelona 0. Same with 24+4+13= 41 which they also shared; Dortmond 4 and Madrid 1. All these analysis geared towards supporting that the fixtures were "manipulatedly" fixed. They never considered the word "Merit" because the illness our ruling party has subjected us to in Nigeria has made "Merit", Anathema.
We've been so subjected to this syndrome that many now think that everything is "Fixed" in every society and in all enterprise. Nigeria has been eaten so deep by this syndrome that our ruling party even has one "Mr. Fit It"as the Party BOT Chairman. Hence, almost everything; appointments, contracts, election results, JAMB results, crude-oil output, state governments allocations and even Violence are all fixed and manipulated by the party at the centre. It was in Bayelsa not quite long ago, had also been in Ogun and Ondo states, they have tried severally in Edo and Imo States but about succeeding in Rivers state.
Can any nation ever succeed with this syndrome that corrupts and eats that part of our human cells, which make us strive for "Merits"??? And with all our "Fixing and Manipulation", they can not stir this "God blessed" nation in the path of economic and technological growths for about 14years they've enjoyed power-syndrome. Instead, they've infested the masses with this "know no merit" syndrome.

Turning Black into White..........

As "White" can never be seen as "Black", so is "Imitation" can never be seen as "Genuine". White is White, as Black is Black! Yeah, the two as colours can mix to produce "Gray" and in fabric, to produce "Ash".
The Western world as the "White" race of our earthly globe has really done almost an equal amount of "Bad" and "Good" to man's existence on this Planet. Their feat in Science and Technology can never be wished away. They've so bridged our Continents Abstractly, that they're now just Seconds away. But the Real harm they've done to some societies Culture and Tradition can not also be swept under the carpet.
All the world religions originated from Middle-East (Asia) and were exported to the West, where they were all "Re engineered" and "Repackaged". Even the act of "Reading and Writing" didn't start from the West, but they've so confiscated the act that what are to be "Read", "Written" or "Thought" are now determined only by them.
Fortunately enough, our Asian brothers (the "Yellow" race, as one of my "Western" expatriate boss hated hearing the calling of a Chinese, "White") are doing real good in imitating Science and Technology from the West. Even our "Red" brothers; the Mexicans, Brazilians, etc aren't doing much bad in this imitation either.
We, the "Black" race are not doing that "Bad" in the areas we've decided to imitate.
Instead of imitating Science and Technology, we went for Culture, Tradition and the "Re engineered and Repackaged" Religions.
It's still seen as "Miracle" in Nigeria to meet all the ATMs in a Bank working at any given time. Our GSM and Internet provisions are not fairing better either. Our erratic electric power supply is now nursery rhythms in our kindergarten schools.
But we've so imitated the culture and traditions of the "Whites" to the extent that some of our languages are now on the verge of extinction. Nakedness has become a dress-style and nothing is considered as "Taboo" in our communities these days. With the newly introduction of "Sex-Education" as a Core Subject in our Junior Secondary schools syllabus, our Churches will soon incorporate "Divorce" and "Same-Sex Marriage" in their Doctrines. All in the name of turning "Black" into "White".