From A Seenager’s Corner _ Let Us Walk The Walk _ Part Two

Welcome to our part two of, “Let Us Walk The Walk.” In this part, we shall demonstrate that our balls shouldn’t be compared to those hanging on Christmas trees just for decoration. Let us be gallant. Let us show that we have the real and live balls. Let us show that we mean business. Let us show that we mean to achieve The Change We Need. Another beauty of our situation is the fact that we can’t lie to ourselves. So we are going to be honest, decisive and transparent. Irrespective of whatever yardstick we may wish to use, I don’t see any reason why a Lawmaker should earn higher than a Medical Director, a Minister, a University Professor or an Army General. Yes, we can’t continue to deceive ourselves. Do you remember how safe we felt when we were seeking the people’s mandate? How we shook hands, ate, drank and danced with them, without wearing bulletproof vests and being escorted by a whole load of security guards? How many of us can do that now? Let’s not continue to take the people’s seemingly docility for granted. So let us clean up ourselves now and quickly too, before others come and forcefully clean us up.

Now that we have re-pledged to be honest and transparent, let us critically look at our religious ignorance. Every day I hear people say, “Religion is a creation of God. Religion is a personal thing. Religion is rooted in your belief.” But I say nothing can be further from the truth than that. If ignorance can be defined as not knowing, then we are so ignorant about the whole thing. And if God is to be defined as the Creator, then we must appreciate that every nation knew their Creator and called Him by different names according to their different tribes and ethnicity. They revered Him, obeyed Him, loved Him, and above all, they were their brothers’ keepers. Since we are ignorant of how He came to be, it can never be considered a personal matter. Neither can it be rooted on belief, because belief doesn’t make something true. The other day a wife wrote her husband, “Our daughter that you have been taking care off for the past twenty years, is not really your daughter.” The husband fell on his knees, praised God and said, “Thank God for this relief. I thought I was living in sin because I believed she was my daughter.” So, belief can’t make anything true. In Part Three, we shall discuss how to handle our ignorance.