BEHOLD THE SAINT
By: Rev. Udechukwu Nnaji
Tags: Same Sex Marriage, Abortion, Evangelical, Saint, President

African Evangelicals for Donald Trump. Photo Credit: theatlantic.com

A new saint is in town. He is an American and canonized by the presently shame-faced Christian-bigots. In Nigeria and the entire African continent, in conjunction with some American-Israeli Think-alike. He is Mr Donald Trump, the President of the United States of America. He lost his re-election bid in the recent Presidential election in the United States of America. Mr Donald Trump is a good and a righteous man of God, they say. He hates injustice because he is a Christian.

Now, he lost in his re-election bid, it is perplexing that the morally-right Donald Trump and hater of abortion and the same-sex marriage was defeated. More painfully, by Mr Joe Biden, the first son of Lucifer, the architect of the evil twins of abortion and the same-sex bill who was elected the 46th President of the United States of America. These Americans must be profoundly immoral. Or else, morally-minded people would not reject a Christian as Trump and chose an anti-Christ, Joe Biden.

Before, during and after the campaigns for the Presidential election of 2016, twenty six women had accused Mr Trump of sexual misconduct. However, he overcame all and became the 45th President of the United States of America. Yes, moral decadence is the stuff a saint is made. And the Holy Book recommends that those who should be saints must be morally bankrupt.

A very good man, he loves Africans, especially Nigerians so much. His love for the black man was the reason he rejected the winning Nigerian Candidate for the office of the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, the Nigerian Candidate and the only African standing was the consensus winner for the top job. Despite having the overwhelming supports of representatives of over 104 countries for the office, Dr Iweala was rejected by the American Government under President Donald Trump. Do you see what I mean?

Trump has high regards for the black man. His love for the black man was the other reason the American President supported Yoo Myung-hee, the South Korean Candidate who had 55 votes for the office. What a wonderful man of justice?

Suffice to say till date no one has accused Mr Biden of facilitating or abetting a single abortion all his life. He is married to a woman and not a fellow man. Moreover, no one accused any of his children of lesbianism or homosexuality. Yet the so-called religious leaders demonized him for supporting abortion and same-sex marriage.

It is the norm in a democracy that bills are sponsored by citizens and passed by the legislature, not the executive. Legislatures have many members where the majority will always carry the day. Abortion and Same-sex bills were not sponsored by Mr Biden either as a citizen, Senator or the Vice President. Mr Donald Trump has been on the saddle for four years now, working with a Senate where his Republican Party is in the majority, yet he has not sponsored an executive bill to repeal any of the two immoral laws he hates so much.

Even at that, Americans had not voted for the Pope or Bishop of the United States of America. They voted for a man they believed would heal the wound of racism which received a boost under Trump. They voted for a man who would unite the people badly divided by Mr Trump’s racist, sadistic and divisive policies.

They voted for a man who will diplomatically take America back to its vantage position in international politics. Not a man of brute and combative propaganda which had earned the nation more enemies than friends in the few years of Mr Trump’s administration.

They voted for a man who would make the control of the Corona-virus pandemic a top priority and not a man who asked the citizenry to inject bleach for the cure of Corona-Virus. A unifier who will bring families and communities together. And unify children and parents separated by the myopic immigration policy of the present government.

It is an irony that the same people who accuse African leaders who never concede defeats in electoral contests saw no wrongs in Donald Trump’s lack of character. And praying for President Trump for the same offences for-which the African leaders were vilified after it became clear he lost the election. In my own country Nigeria, the Bishops and Pastors who accuse President Muhammadu Buhari of nepotism and divisiveness, held special prayer sessions for the success of the re-election of Mr Trump. A known white-supremacist.

The questions for these evangelicals praying for Mr Trump because of his opposition to the abortion and same-sex marriage are; Has abortion stopped in Africa for its illegality? Are there no gays in Africa because no bill legalized it? How powerful is a Vice President? Could Biden have stopped his Principal from signing a bill passed by the Lawmakers of his country?

I am a Christian and I hate these two laws. But as evil as same-sex marriage and abortion could be, our opposition to them has not stopped them in Africa. Think of it would there be abortion if there was no pregnancy? Would there be pregnancy if there was no sexual intercourse? Are fornication and adultery not sins anymore? Why do we commit fornication and adultery in Africa? Have we legalized them? Religion and politics should be two different entities.

Did these evangelicals know of the many lies Mr Trump had told, most of which are tearing his nation apart? Did they know about his moral failings? What of all the hate-speeches which breed hatred? Is love for one another no longer the greatest of scriptural laws?

Prayer sessions for the re-election of a President under whom America was racially-polarized as never before? I wonder the brand of Christianity these evangelicals and followers represent.

Because I am a Christian, I know a Christian should be a follower of Christ whose Church represents LOVE, PEACE AND UNITY? All of the above dwindled badly in America under President Trump.

Must every good thing have a counterfeit version in my continent? Inclusive of the Church? Leaders are held responsible for whatever happens in their domain, theTrumpists failed to do same about the racially motivated killings by the Police in the United States under the watch of Donald Trump. Everyone has the right to fast or pray for whoever or whatever he chooses but not in a representative capacity. Same for the saint and demon makers.

Let the Bishops pray, the Pastors and prayer warriors pray for Donald Trump’s re-election. But the Nigerians among them should persuade their counterparts elsewhere into joining hands to channel their prayers for the success of President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria. Buhari’s Nigeria is in dire need of prayers than Trump. And be told that God does not play politics. Americans have made their choice which must be respected the way it was four years ago.