Government offices are not sanctified places and those that hold them should know

Happy New Year…

I must begin the new year by acknowledging the fact, in some respects, I am becoming increasingly fond of the wild opposition movements going on in different African countries, their red colour campaigns, their new phases like the “Togikwatako” in Uganda and their raucous plead for ending life-presidencies and strong rulers like ours. 
In a very straightforward and uncomplicated manner, I feel that these opposition leaders are probably the only truly religious people in our country. Whether consciously or unconsciously, they are protesting blasphemy and among them a Messiah will come ..

This may come to some as a surprise; to those who are close to me, those who know me as a very devout man. As devout as an altar boy.  Uganda has too many fake Prophets , too many wolves in sheep clothing. Mere men wanting to be called prophets. Leaders unquestioned ....self proclaimed.. .only next to God.

Personally I accept literally the concept of the virgin birth, the trinity and the resurrection. To me, these things happened and at a communion service I am literally drinking the blood and eating the body of Jesus Christ. 

I am merely bored with the earnest, emancipated, pedestrian minds who explain to me with such a fervor that these concepts are superstitious hangovers from spring fertility rites, Babylonian mythology, and Greek philosophy, which spoke truths that have not been so well stated in over 2,000 years and more so in these last few decades

          
All of this is totally irrelevant somehow to human life.

The basic point of my unquestioning faith begins and ends at the communion rail. THEREORE, on all other matters of society, I reserve the right of skeptical judgement. And I believe that the only real blasphemy…the deadliest of sins…is the deification of mortals and sanctification of human institutions.

All of us human being especially those trusted with public discourse are guilty of this and retribution is certain.

How many of us have stood by without protest through meetings where glorified nonentities expound profound platitudes in the awkward, ungainly language of modern liturgy the “ creative” nonthought and the innovative no proposal?

These obscenities have become the condition of life in the modern Africa/Uganda… in business, in labor, in liberal and conservative organizations, in publishing, in education, and even in our religious groupings.

But when these obscenities reach our governments where decision made are life and death for hundreds of millions of people, they reach the ULTIMATE of intolerable. Under such circumstances the Four Horseman ride not as a dreaded force but as a welcome relief.

Today, looking around with what’s going on politically in Uganda/ Africa. Some of us especially those in areas of influence should stand their ground and scream some four letter words to a few men that are trying to bring the rest of our countries/continent down to hell with them. 

Really, nothing else today is more adequate as a protest to the large constitutional injustices of the reversing of the rule of law and of abusing the powers granted to one by a constitution.

We are restrained not out of fear but out of our carefully cultivated reverence for institutions which were holy only in the sense that all men and women are children of GOD, which is for sure quite a different thing from deification.

Today’s leaders in government, of course are tragically wrong because they would destroy not only obscenity but the tradition of civility, which is probably the closest to excellence of any product of human civilization. But their rage and invective are wholly understandable. It fits far too much in the world which they live in verses the world we live in.

I am a trained professional teacher, and I do not like four letter words and normally have reserved them for moments of great stress when they are essential to preserve sanity. But they describe the current situation of entitled leaders in Africa/Uganda. From the president to the lowest of elected members of government.

Things that are truly holy cannot be splattered no matter what is thrown at them. And that which can be befouled deserves its fate.

Somehow, in order for there to be perfect harmony in Uganda/Africa. Things have to be made human again. Somehow, we must learn to govern ourselves from an office that is secular and not from a court that is sanctified. Government offices are not sanctified places and those that hold them should know. There is no holiness to the position and power vested in them. We must govern all government business from a secular place. Not from a court that is sanctified. If our destruction comes, it will be because we placed our faith, our unquestioning faith in institutions that are only brick and wood and in men or women who are flesh only and blood and this seems to be the condition of the first half of this century here in Uganda.