THE Italian fascist Benito Mussolini who was one of the key figures in the creation of fascism once said blood alone moves the wheels of history.
It is the same man who said vengeance is good by commenting that there is nothing gratifying like waylaying your enemy in a dark corner, stabbing him in the chest and going home for a good night sleep.
Is it true that blood moves the wheels of history as Mussolini noted?
The answer is yes.
It is true evil rules the world, a fact the Bible acknowledges in many verses like Romans 5:12 which says “Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.”
In a famous poem Thin Songs, the late Cameroonian writer Mbella Sonne Dipoko indignantly lamented the evil in the world and his helplessness to change things.
The words in the poem ran:
I am giving up
For the world is ruled by lies
Against which thin songs
Stand no chance.
I feel so frustrated
For history says
It’s always the same thing,
The same monster of money dressing himself up
Differently as the occasion demands.
And it is the same in all countries.
Still one’s conscience complains
Cured of its own weaknesses
As it limps to the altar
Asking there for forgiveness
Because sometimes one got so near to giving up
The struggle for a better world.
Commenting on the same subject, another East African poet Taban Lo Liyong penned a poem With Purity Nothing Has Been Won in which he argues that humanity has advanced through wicked means.
With purity hath nothing been won
greece came not thru purity
christ died through the impure
only with impurity had Japan moved ahead
the American beast came about through things impure
purity kills creativity in the womb
impurity spreads with health
eve ate the apple for impurity’s sake
my heart bless thyself
thou truckest not with things that are pure
impurity fills you up with angels of god
thou art greater than earth and hell
for impurity limiteth the child in the
cradle
impurity is boundless like my soul.
In the above lines, Taban uses biblical figures of Eve and Christ to illustrate the fact that great events in human history have occurred only through corrupt and wicked practices.
For example, Eve’s tasting of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Aden is the source of man’s fall from glory.
Similarly, Christ betrayal by Judas Iscariot for thirty pieces of silver despite leading to crucifixion is significance because it marks man’s salvation.
However, the poet further argues that the advances made in science and technology, especially by America and Japan, emanate from their corrupt practices and behaviour, the former by displacing the aboriginal Red Indians and the latter by ‘stealing’ technological knowledge making it their own.
Even among us Christians, the challenges of the world sometimes tests our faith leaving us wondering why God permits so much evil and suffering.
This is a baffling reality that raises the question ‘if God is all loving, why is the world filled with so much evil and suffering?
For both believers and non-believers, evil and suffering usually dominate our minds, particularly when we ourselves are suffering.
How could a good God allow so much evil? Why doesn’t He do something about it? Couldn’t God have created a world without evil?
In Theology, solving the seeming contradiction between a loving God and the reality of evil is usually referred to as a theodicy.
A theodicy attempts to solve the apparent tensions in what is often termed the problem of evil. But the problem of evil is really a series of problems.
Who is responsible for the evil that we see all around us? And who controls the purveyors of this evil?
People who have studied global issues have identified some politicians as among purveyors of evil whether deliberately or unknowingly.
In the 20th century, many a time such evil isms as socialism, communism, fascism, and Nazism just ended up devastating nations and caused the agonizing deaths of millions of people.
Some critics of world events even questioned the essence of having rulers.
These are important questions since history has proved that there are two issues man lamentably fails to do.
They are governance and judgement. Whenever man attempts to execute these divine roles usually with no guidance from God, the results are always disastrous.
All human attempts to govern and rule confirm what the Bible tells us and warns us about: man’s fallen nature.
Thus, it is not surprising to note that despite intelligent men and women assuming the roles of leadership, the world is now engaged in full-fledged wars between the forces of good and the forces of evil.
Is humanity so psychologically brainwashed that it can no longer tell good from evil? Have political offices become such purveyors of evil that they routinely turn millions of citizens into functional illiterates? The answer unfortunately is yes.
Most people who control the world are ill-bent and want to control man’s thinking by taking control of the nation’s greatest universities.
These same spiteful clique controls large portions of the mass media where they spread their evil doctrine to influence global opinion.
Like the late Jamaican reggae star Peter Tosh who laments in his patois song Dem Ha Fe Get A Beatin which translated in Standard English means they should get a beating, the world is in a mess. The musician rightly complains that ‘I can’t stand this any longer.’
The reggae artist penned these lines:
I can’t stand this no longer,
The wicked get stronger.
I can’t stand this no longer,
‘Cause the battle is gettin’ hotter.
The wicked who are getting stronger are usually formidable enemies of humanity in suits sitting in oval offices destroying everything that makes us special in the eyes of God.
Much of the problems we are grappling with have to do with the people who control global power rejecting the God of the Bible.
What we have failed to understand is that belief in God is what has protected us from evil, and that by rejecting the benevolent God who created us, we are now defenceless against evil.
Our revered secular intellectuals openly tell the world that they do not believe in God and are therefore open to any evil doctrine that titillates their ears.
Thus they are easily infected by the evil doctrines of Karl Marx, John Dewey, Fidel Castro, and other utopians.
The sad part is that they do not keep these views to themselves but impose them on hapless citizens especially students who wrongly think being atheist is ‘cool.’
This explains why Marxism is so popular in most universities since students fail to understand that Karl Marx who was born Christian rejected his faith for Satanism.
In his poem, Pale Maiden, he wrote the heaven I have forfeited/ I know it full well. My soul once true to God, Is chosen for hell.
Note that Marx was enticed into the occult while at University leading to his private writing becoming openly demonic.
It is time to re-educate man by offering him objective information devoid of the many lies inculcated in us from a rotten system that has made the world the evil place it is.
We should question all information we have learnt in universities, from the media, from our leaders and even from our parents if it is not steeped in profound biblical teachings.