04 December 2014

Christians in Kenya Should Denounce Militarism in All Forms

Christians in Kenya should denounce their government for playing the American stooge and getting involved in the Somali War. I am not suggesting they lobby, try to take over, or politically agitate. But it should be known that Christians don't support the action and Christians should refuse to play any part in executing the Kenyan government's policy.

I'm speaking of Biblically faithful Christians, not the Sacralized rulers who are the children of Colonialist Christendom and various forms of Protestant and Roman Catholic Dominionist theology.


The United States backed Ethiopia which was de facto against Somalia until Selassie was overthrown in 1974. Then the United States later backed Somalia against Derg and Mengistu ruled Ethiopia. This continued until the end of the Cold War in 1989. Then the authoritarian Barre government of Somalia fell and the country as ever since been in a state of Civil War.

The United States has heavily meddled in the region, as did the USSR, Britain and of course Italy. We should also mention France in nearby Djibouti or French Somaliland as it used to be known. The US is also heavily invested in Djibouti where it headquarters the new Africa Command. This is the base of operations for the ongoing wars in Somalia and Yemen.

Kenya and Ethiopia have become regional proxies for the United States and are facing a severe backlash. The peasant warriors of Somalia do not have a way to strike back at the United States. So instead they hit at their proxies.

I will not for a moment condone the murderous Al-Shabaab, but at the same time it must all be taken in its context. Their cross-border strikes and massacres are part of the ongoing story in the whole region... a history that dates back to the Cold War and World War II.

If two perceived 'Christian' countries ally with a perceived 'Christian' empire and the victim of this, namely Somalia has suffered literally decades of manipulation and death as a result... we shouldn't be surprised that fanaticism is the result.

The Kenyan people have been betrayed by their leaders and I wonder how many Kenyan Christians have been sucked up into the whole mindset and the madness?

They are suffering a sort of asymmetrical persecution. Islam as a Sacral religion cannot divorce political power (violence) from religion. Since the state is acting, they take it as a Christian State warring against Islam. The extreme Jihadist factions believe murdering infidels is not only a legitimate act of war, but an act of piety and so they act thus.

Of course in the United States it is wrongly believed that just because a man wears an insignia and pushes a button from thousands of feet in the air... or from a control room in Djibouti that somehow is 'not' murder.

Sacralism is the oldest idolatry there is, but Christian Sacralism destroys body, soul and plants the banner of Satan in the midst of the Church.

At this point the region has been shattered. There is no good way to fix it, but disengagement is a good way to start. Only non-politically motivated actors have a chance at mediating.