“The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC), an
association of Christians from mainline denominations, has urged political
parties participating in the July 30 elections to uphold the fundamental values
of the country’ s Constitution,” reported The Zimbabwean.
“ZCC yesterday launched a programme called I
Pray I Vote in Masvingo. The programme seeks to promote peace and sanity
before, during and after the July 30 elections.”
ZCC has failed to pressure President Mnangagwa
and his junta regime to implement the democratic reforms which, if implemented,
would have guaranteed peaceful, free, fair and credible elections.
With no reforms in place the best we can hope
for now is the peace will hold. The elections are NOT going to be free, fair
and credible; not when there is no free public media, when ZEC has failed to
produce clean and verified voters’ roll, when Zanu PF has been robbing the
nation blind to bankroll its vote rigging schemes, etc., etc.
When the children of Israel left Egypt to go to
the Promised Land flowing with milk and honey, they not only faced the
challenge of the physical journey itself they also fought many, many battles
along the way. They were being led by one of the holiest man to ever walk this
earth, Moses.
They must have been tempted to say; “Why are we
bothering ourselves with all the physical challenges of tracking across the
desert and risking serious injuries and our very lives fighting? We must ask
Moses to pray for us; so, God removes all these challenges. After all we are
the chosen people!”
We know the journey from Egypt to the Promised
Land was full of trials and tribulations and even after getting they have to
this day faced many problems because such is life. The moral of the story of
Exodus is “God will not do for mankind what mankind can do for himself!”
“I pray!” Pray for God to demanding of
President Mnangagwa, Mugabe before him, to implement the democratic reforms because
ZCC will not dare or are too lazy to demand the reforms themselves? Sadly not
even one democratic reforms has ever been implemented and so Zanu PF has blatantly
rigged elections in the past and is rigging these elections too.
“I vote!” To what end and purpose, if the
elections are rigged?
If we are serious about ending the criminal
waste of the nation’s human and material resources behind the economic meltdown
and tragic human suffering and deaths; then we must take our duties and
responsibilities to build a justice and prosperous Zimbabwe with the seriousness
the task demands.
Praying to God to do for us what we are too
lazy to do for ourselves is what landed us into this hell-on-earth and there we
will remain until we learn to do our homework!
1 comment:
One of the most common theme in the Bible is the prophets and all God's messengers in all disguises speaking the truth to power. It is a great tragedy of our time that most of our Church leaders today have been seduced with power. Our men and women of cloth are spending most of their time fleecing the poor and oppressed and whenever they spend hours hobnobbing with the rich and power!
It comes as no surprise that many of our politicians have embraced religion and vice versa; pastor and politician may be strange bed-fellows in some countries but in Zimbabwe were corruption and tyranny are the norm the two are buddies.
Very few, if any at all, ZCC leaders would ever acknowledge that Zanu PF has been rigging elections, acknowledging that there has been violence is the closest they will ever get to admitting that things are not quite right back at the ranch. As for doing something to end the culture of violence, they would like God the Almighty to sort that one out and hence the reason they are praying.
No doubt ZCC leaders have heard countless times that God does not do for mankind what mankind can do for himself but when it comes to looking their political buddies in the eye and demand justice, their Church leaders, in their infinite wisdom, have decided they want God to do it. They insist!
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