Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Are Christians Cannibals?
Joshua (a.k.a. Jesus), the man, was a rebel against the Jewish establishment.
He ridiculed the high and mighty Pharisees, with their haughty legalistic
showmanship. His core message was about Love, which, supposedly, is the message
of most major religion of the world. He was, however, one of the few teachers
who recognized the mental component to liberate the masses: that what is
important is what goes on in the mind—the outward show of animal sacrifices and
piety is a dog without the right mindset.
Like many great men, Joshua was seemingly full of contradictions. Why the anger
in cursing up a fig tree or beating up traders in the temple? We will never
know why he was reluctant to help the Greek woman who had a daughter with a
demon just because the woman was non-Jewish. Then, his most enigmatic act was
at the Last Supper when he blessed bread and wine and offered it to his
disciples as his body and blood. The offering of animals and humans to the gods
was nothing new as long as human conjured ways to communicate with the
mysterious universe.
Ostensibly, he was going to be the “sacrificial lamb” for the sake of a world
gone astray. When the missionaries, backed by the might of gun powder, snuff
and trinkets, brought this message to the Afrikan shores, the idea of human
sacrifice wouldn’t have been anathema to some Afrikan societies. What would
have been problematical to some would have been the eating of human flesh and
drinking of human blood, albeit symbolically. To achieve this the missionaries
and their backers of force first had to debase the Afrikan and his practices,
which were equally symbolic attempts to reach the Unknown.
The Afrikan practices, in their noble motivations, are generally attempts to
work on the mind so as to reconcile, thank or ask—effectively, no less
different from what
Joshua preached. It boggles my mind when a highly western-trained Afrikan shuns
certain Afrikan practices just because he is “saved.” In a piece in a local
weekly, the elders recognized that the Afrikan had a problem after many years
abroad where he sought refuge because of his participation and failures that
resulted in many deaths and sufferings. He was asked to do certain things, but
he refused claiming his allegiance only to Jesus. The question I ask is: if the
said Afrikan labels our practices as the works of heathens, should we label him
a cannibal for his eating the body and drinking the blood of a Jew?
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