message of justice and peace and to heal or exorcise.
The type of Christianity that has been palmed off on Africa and the
Caribbean has the effect, whether intended or not, to infantilize people,
to keep them compliant. The Great White Master "up there" in the sky will
make everything right in the long run(Wasn't it Harry Truman who said that
in the long run, we'll all be dead?). Meanwhile the garbage continues tio
pile up!
It is not a question even of atheism versus theism. I am reading the
radical Christian German theologian, pacifist and feminist, Dorothee
Soelle, and she asks us to move 'beyond theism and atheism. (She taught at
Union Theological in NYC).
What Haiti and Africa really need today is good governance, accountability
and democracy, in that order.
Haitians must begin to take responsibility for their own lives. The
"bible-believing" Christians, whether from Canada or the US, who come 'to
save them' should be put on the next plane home, by force, if necessary!
Believe me, if Jesus of Nazareth were to turn up in the US in election
year, he would be arrested by these church-goers and sent off to
Guantanimo Bay as an Al-Quaida operative!
They would make Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor appear incompetent.