Followers

Blind Faith


"There is a joke among Africans about how colonialism began," says writer and Kenyan native Edwin Okong'o in his truthful and insightful article "Why Ugandans Embrace U.S. Christian Right’s Anti-Gay Agenda," published at New America Media. "A Christian missionary came with a Bible in hand, told our ancestors to bow their heads for a prayer, and when they opened their eyes their land was gone. Today, the same can be said about African constitutions."

He continues:

Evangelicals have managed to succeed in promoting homophobia by taking advantage of Africans’ lack of adequate information. They have presented homosexuality as a new “culture,” rather than something that has existed all along.

Africans take such filth without questions because they suffer from a severe case of inferiority complex. Even worse, they staunchly believe in the supremacy of the white man. Ill-informed Christians place the white man immediately below the Holy Trinity, a belief with its roots in the colonial era.

Having gone through schools reading moistly textbooks written by white men, Africans are programmed to accept any Western literature. Add the word of God to that and the white man’s message becomes gospel truth. That’s why when a white religious fanatic like Scott Lively writes in his book, “The Pink Swastika,” that Nazis committed the Holocaust because they were gay, without hesitation Africans promise “to stand firm to fight homosexuality.”


I have been saying this from the very beginning: It is always the case that sheep will follow a shepherd off a cliff. Blind faith necessarily requires an astounding timidity and unassailable dimwittedness. 

Read Okong'o's article in its entirety here.