Posted on 03/31/2002 1:41:02 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Was He?
Or did He believe, Absolutely, in FReedom?
.. It is all unbearably sad. Despite its run-down center and its endlessly potholed roads Harare is a beautiful city: tall trees, wonderful vegetation, large gardens. Walking in the center one is endlessly accosted by curio sellers who have hardly seen a tourist in months. When you tell them you don't want to buy their wares they switch immediately to telling you how many hungry children they have. In part this terrible sadness stems from the fact that so many believed -- briefly -- that Mugabe might be beaten. But this disappointment and anti-climax is greatly added to by a conviction that only external forces will be effective in getting Mugabe out... and that the rest of the world doesn't seem to care.
"The news that the Commonwealth has suspended Zimbabwe is good," one Movement for Democratic Change (opposition) supporter told me, "but we need real help now, not gestures. The President is a torturer and murderer and his supporters are taking revenge all round the country on those who voted against him. Even people like me, who have fought with all I've got against him have now to think of my wife and kids. Should we run? If so where to? Surely it would be easier and cheaper for the world to help now than have to pick this country up from the dead later on?" [End Excerpts]
Don't we love the black and brown Peoples, too?
All I see are people trying to do the right thing and being denied by might over right.
I also see terrorists running unchecked and being the only super power,
we need to give assistance to those who want freedom from them.
Please, Dear Lord!!?
For these self-appointed social redeemers, the goal-"social justice"-is not about rectifying particular injustices, which would be practical and modest, and therefore conservative. Their crusade is about rectifying injustice in the very order of things. "Social Justice" for them is about a world reborn, a world in which prejudice and violence are absent, in which everyone is equal and equally advantaged and without fundamentally conflicting desires. It is a world that could only come into being through a re-structuring of human nature and of society itself.
Even though they are too prudent and self-protective to name this future anymore, the post-Communist left still passionately believes it possible. But it is a world that has never existed and never will. Moreover, as the gulags and graveyards of the last century attest, to attempt the impossible is to invite the catastrophic in the world we know. [End Excerpt]
It is high time that Christians and congregations chase away pastors, reverends and priests who bless and speak well of the state-sponsored evil being encouraged by Zimbabwe's ruling class. Men of God who grace ZANU PF occasions for their own selfish ends should be chased away from the churches.
These are indeed abnormal times when so-called men of God turn out to be supporters of such devilish acts as being perpetrated by the state today. It is time that right-thinking Zimbabwean Christians say "to hell with these fake men of God who preach the word according to ZANU PF".***
(Under the Guise of Religion) ..United Methodists Working for Peace in Zimbabwe
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