ARE THE BISHOPS OF CAMEROON TELLING US THAT JESUS WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN?
After having followed the controversy raised by the recent Episcopal Conference of Cameroon on politics and religion, the theosophical eagle in me wants to soar. The call of the Bishops for Cameroonians to leave them out of real politics was problematic. The question is whether a good Christian can be a good politician. Those who are for the Bishops will argue that, being quintessentially a dark art of greed and runaway egoism, Politics is not meant for Angels. However realistic reading of history will counter that everything is radically tied to politics. Jesus was involved in active politics. Oh Yes!!! Right from the womb, he and his parents attended the political census organised by Ceasare Augustus. For crying about the theocracy of Jesus from on high was incarnate into the monarchy in the dynasty of David. So, from both his secular and religious identities, Jesus was a politician. SO WHEN DID THIS ANIMOSITY BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY STEAL ITS WAY INTO HISTORY? WHERE DID THE CAMEROONIAN BISHOPS GET THE IDEA THAT A GOOD BISHOP AS A CHRISTIAN CANNOT BE A POLITICIAN? History is replete with these political dark angels that entered into active politics. Bishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador was a liberation Theologian. Archbishop Marcus Marcarios became the head of State of Cyprus. Rev Fr Jean Aristides Bertrand became the president of Haiti. My illustrious teacher, Christian Cardinal Tumi, was convinced that anyone who says that Bishops should not get involved in politics is not reading the Bible. SO WHAT? So either the Bishops of Cameroon are being hypocritical, or they are arguing with bad faith. You, the Holy, pious Catholic, who is always to get angry on behalf of the Bishop. You, the Catholic Christian whose piety cannot criticise a bishop, should at least hold your breath to ponder as to why the Bishop’s Cruiser or Staff resembles a question mark? Has it ever dawned on you that if Jesus is sitting at the Right hand of the Father, the Father is at the left hand of Jesus? Maybe the Bishops are insinuating that since to be a Christian is to be apolitical, Jesus was an apolitical activist because he was a Christian
By Bawe Louis Tarawo, The Philosopher
