A person whose interest is to enslave you cannot give you a book that sets you free!Is it a coincidence that this book, brought to our shores by the same hands that shackled our wrists, speaks so extensively about slavery? Not merely mentioning it in passing, but codifying it, sanctifying it, and placing divine authority upon it? “Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, just as you would obey Christ.”The command is chilling in its clarity. While our ancestors bled under the lash, this verse was read aloud to them, a spiritual poison designed to transmute righteous anger into pious submission. The colonizer, with a Bible in one hand and a whip in the other, performed a perfect magic trick: convincing the man in chains that his liberation was a sin and his servitude, a sacred duty.Even today, the descendants of those slaves still cling to the same book. The question is not of faith, but of consciousness. Wake up.This is not an isolated critique of one verse; it is an indictment of an entire ideological framework engineered for control. The weaponization of scripture did not end with slavery; it evolved. It moved from pacifying the slave on the plantation to pacifying the citizen in the nation.The Genesis of Subjugation: Original Sin as Political StrategyConsider the foundation of the doctrine: Original Sin. The ultimate masterstroke of blame-shifting. By teaching that humanity is inherently flawed, born guilty from a primordial ancestor, the system naturalizes suffering. Poverty, disease, and despair are no longer political failures or economic crimes; they become divine verdicts.While you are on your knees praying for forgiveness for a sin you never committed, the politician is pocketing the billions meant for your hospital. Your child dies in a collapsing ward not because of a failed state, but because of Adam’s transgression.This is the grotesque altar of our age: not the slaughter of animals, but the sacrifice of generations. Dreams are incinerated when education is defunded; lives are offered when healthcare collapses. These are the real offerings demanded by the modern gods of power.And to ensure the sacrifices never stop, the people must remain divided. You are kept fighting over trivialities, tribe against tribe, gender against gender, while the puppeteers count their profits. The state feeds us indifference, igniting endless arguments among ourselves; and while we tear each other apart, we fail to see we are all victims. Meanwhile, they keep cashing in because they have mastered the art of distraction. Women are slaughtered and stacked like potatoes in quarries, and alleged suspects vanish mysteriously from the custody of the very Directorate of Criminal Investigations sworn to uphold justice. How does one disappear from the heart of the state? Only if the state itself is complicit. Ask why there was no follow-up on the Endarasha School fire in Kenya, a tragedy that claimed the lives of innocent children, and the silence itself becomes an answer. It whispers of complicity, of a government too quiet to be blameless. Because when the fire chief won’t investigate the blaze, you start to wonder if he was holding the match.The Unholy Alliance: The Pastor and the PoliticianHere lies the perfect sacrament of power: the unholy marriage of the pulpit and the statehouse. Witness the ceremony. The politician, bloated on plundered public treasure, arrives not in penance, but as a patron. His offering, a fraction of his loot laid upon the altar, is not a donation; it is a transaction. The pastor, his eyes glistening not with the spirit but with the gleam of the envelope, bows in reverence, not to God, but to the hand that pays. By Sunday, the scripture has been rewritten from the pulpit: “Leaders are ordained by God; to question them is to blaspheme.”But respect is not a divine right; it is a human reward, earned through integrity and service. This is not the gospel of Christ; it is the gospel of Caesar, a brutal political manifesto whispered in the sacred tongue of a hollowed-out faith.The very heart of the teaching has been inverted. Christ multiplied loaves to feed the hungry masses; today, the hungry masses are multiplied—their tithes and offerings—to feed the pastor’s empire. The miracle has been reversed. Private jets, fortified mansions, and political endorsements now stand where humility, charity, and truth once knelt. The liberator who overturned the tables of the corrupt has been systematically recast as the chaplain of the kleptocrat, a spiritual bodyguard for the very forces he came to dismantle.And what is the core doctrine of this new state religion? Obey. Surrender. It is a theology distilled into passive commands: “turn the other cheek,” “love your enemy,” and “forgive seventy times seven.” But this is not a moral compass for the righteous; it is a leash for the lambs, designed by the wolves. To romanticize this as "subversive love" is a luxury of the safe, a philosophical game played in seminars far from the slaughter. True peace requires a conscience in the oppressor, but what conscience orchestrates a genocide?Do not speak of turning the other cheek in Gaza. Go there, if the bombs and the borders allow you, and look into the eyes of a father holding his child’s body, a small life extinguished by a shell inscribed with a foreign flag. Look at the rubble that was once a hospital, a school, a home. Then, with that image seared behind your eyes, dare to repeat the command to "love your enemy." The arithmetic of non-violence collapses when the other side only understands the calculus of extermination. To preach submission in the face of annihilation is not sophisticated theology; it is spiritual complicity. It is the final, grotesque triumph of the oppressor: to train the oppressed not just to bear their chains but to kiss the hands that forged them, to kneel at their own execution and call it divine will.The Chosen People Paradox: A License for GenocideAnd what of this so-called Chosen People narrative? The Bible speaks endlessly of the Israelites, a people allegedly handpicked by God when nobody was there, justified in conquest, and shielded from enslavement. But chosen by whom? And on what evidence, other than the very book that makes the claim?This is the circular logic of empire disguised as revelation: We are chosen because our scripture says so, and our scripture is true because we are chosen. It is not theology; it is sanctified political propaganda.Read the text without the anesthesia of worship. The Bible grants the Hebrews divine license to invade, enslave, and exterminate. The God of the Old Testament is not a universal deity of love; He is a warlord who favors one tribe and authorizes atrocities in His name.Numbers 31:17–18: “Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.”Pause. Let those words stand in their full horror. The command is to execute every boy, a preemptive genocide to erase future rivals. To kill every married woman whose only “crime” was intimacy with her husband. And the virgins? They are “kept alive for yourselves,” a euphemism for rape and forced marriage.This is not divine justice. It is conquest with a halo. And here lies the deepest irony: the majority of Christians, especially in Africa, are not Hebrews. In the brutal theology of that text, they are the Canaanites, the Midianites, the marked for extermination. Yet through centuries of indoctrination, they have been taught to identify with the Israelites. They cheer for Joshua as he walls up Jericho, never realizing they are the ones inside the walls.This is the psychological triumph of empire: the colonized cheering for the ideology that justifies their own annihilation. The theology of chosenness is not faith; it is a caste system written in sacred ink.The Final Apostasy: On Sheep, Shepherds, and Sovereign MindsAnd so we arrive at the last fortress of control: the mind.We are told that to truly understand scripture, logic is insufficient. We must rely on the Holy Spirit for revelation. This is the most ingenious firewall ever designed against thought. When confronted with contradictions, genocide in Numbers, misogyny in Deuteronomy, slavery in Ephesians, the faithful answer is not reason but deflection: “You cannot understand because you lack the Spirit.”What is this except a command to shut down critical thought? The intellect is branded unreliable, and the conscience, corrupt. The only way to “see the truth” is by surrendering to the very system that forbids questioning it. But do we really need divine assistance to interpret words? Or do we need the same faculties that guide all human inquiry, intelligence, evidence, empathy, and reason? We use them to interpret law, literature, and science. Yet for this one book, we are told to suspend them. That is not enlightenment; that is indoctrination.And then comes the most devastating metaphor of all: the flock. Christians proudly call themselves “the flock of Christ,” never pausing to examine what a sheep is. A sheep does not question. It follows. It is led to pasture and to slaughter with the same blind trust. When people adopt this identity willingly, they accept docility as a virtue. A goat would have been a better brand.To awaken, therefore, is to commit the final apostasy: the refusal to be herded. The rejection of inherited obedience masquerading as holiness. To reclaim the right to think, to question, to doubt—the true acts of faith in humanity itself.Our liberation will not come from a book handed to us by our captors, nor from shepherds appointed to keep us docile. It will be written by our own hands, in the language of reason, compassion, and justice.The fence around the flock has always been a mental one.The gate was never locked.All that remains is the courage to walk out and the clarity never again to mistake the slaughterhouse for salvation.