There must be a restoration of religion in a world of religious confusion where the indifference of the religious leaders has made it useless for religion to carry out its mission.
Those crying out against CAMA are those who have little regard for the word of God.
CAMA does not target churches, FG reassures religious bodies
Those steeped in materialism do not want the CAMA simply because they would have to give up either their positions or their purse.
But those who humbly seek to submit to the word of God will be receptive simply because they know that CAMA is the road map to religious restoration.
It is highly hypocritical that those who condemned the recent Shariah court ruling on blasphemy on the ground that nobody should fight for God on religious matters are now fighting for God against CAMA because they have something to lose.
When considering religious matters, one should certainly remain objective.
From biblical viewpoint, God had aforetimes worked through the medium of the laws that were made by governing authorities.
The Bible tells us that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.
In obedience to this act, Joseph and Mary journeyed to their home land, Bethlehem, to be enrolled.
In the event of this occasion, the saviour was born in Bethlehem where God by His infinite wisdom had predestined that the saviour would come.
Joseph did not threaten the government of Caesar Augustus with legal action.
That proves that God works through the medium of the laws made by governing authorities.
It is obvious that religious leaders who make a public statement to voice members right while heaping wealth upon themselves have lost moral direction.
The plight of the poor is of no concern to them because they lavish themselves with wine and eat sumptuous dinners while watching television.
The days for men of God whose hearts bleed for those who are naked, hungry and destitute are gone.
The western world dishes out billions of dollars in food and other aids to the third world nations.
These foreign governments’ humanitarian nature of spilling their surpluses for the poor, are being siphoned off by the religious leaders and NGOs to erect a barrier between themselves and the reality of the poor.
Without sharing and caring, they own and control 90 per cent of the foreign aids and close themselves in the security of their homes with filled refrigerators in order to isolate the pleas of the desperate.
God did remind us that the poor are always with us.
Paul said as long as he had food and clothing, he was contented (1TM 6:8).
These religious leaders that are threatening to go to court should blame not the government for the CAMA.
They should blame themselves.
Their thirst for power, their selfishness, their indifference and religious games have caused them to lose contact with God and God’s judgment is upon them by proxy.
May God have mercy on them because of their lack of sensitivity to the plight of the poor, and forgive them for their greed which has caused the CAMA to be enacted.
CAMA is God working by proxy to bring an end to religious fraud and restore integrity and moral purity in religious affairs, and the credibility of the government to do that is a matter of divine concern.
Therefore, desiring to sue because of a law that does not place one under severe persecution and trials, nor violate one’s freedom of worship, is exposing one’s emotional and psychological disorientation from the word of God and the mission of religion.
Lest I forget, the CAMA may karma anyone who chooses to fight it because it is not a holy war, but a war rooted in ignorance and gluttony.
But the CAMA divides the red sea for religious freedom.
Ndubisi Onochie
