RELIGIOUS MARGINALIZATION

COEXIST OR COEXTINCT.

“The time when the world is facing great uncertainty on the religious front, it is nothing short of tragedy that global religious system is being held hostage by narrow and selfish vested interests of the Satan” (P B Shelley : To divide is to take away.)

No doubt the world is always temping to fall prey to mantra “Coextinct not Coexist “This is because of religious marginalization. This means all dimensions of division of Christians by faith predicament and that is against the state of mobility of holy scriptures.

Coexist-Into junction or a state of union; as, to sew, knit, pin or fasten two things together; to mix things together. To exist together or at the same time, to live in peace with each other especially as a matter of policy Coextinct-destruction; suppression; a putting an end to; as the extinction of life, or of a family; the extinction of feuds, jealousies or enmity; (the extinction of a claim .KJV dictionary)

When people live together in peace, there is harmony, tranquillity, quietness, love. Therefore, Peaceful co-existence means different people living together under peaceful conditions. People desiring peace in the bible example Abraham in the book of genesis because Peace is a fundamental component of community development, personal growth, and survival of our planet. At the heart of every faith community, and culture, lies a need to advance peaceful co-existence to enhance productive, meaningful lives and sustainable societies. “That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.” — Genesis 26:29 (KJV)

MARGINALIZATION

Marginalization-the act of placing a person or thing in a position of lesser importance, influence, or power; the state of being placed in such a position: Using prophet Isaiah, God intended to abolish religious classes that were built by the early believers.

They pursued wealth and status at the expense of the marginalized and the poor. In Isaiah 3:3-15 God pronounced judgment on the elders and the leaders of God’s people for expanding their own wealth by plundering and grinding down the faces of the poor and helpless ones.

“The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.”
— Isaiah 3:14 (KJV)

Class structure whereby the wealth, and hence power, come to be increasingly concentrated in the hands of a privileged minority at the expense of small-holders have dire consequences and even religious demise.

PROMISE OR PERIL

The mighty God warns on the situation of strong people being greedy and trying to make selfish sense of self esteem, “Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!”

— Isaiah 5:8 (KJV). ”

God says, you who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is room for no one but you, and you are left to live alone in the midst of the land!”

As the people of God, they were called forth to be different from the surrounding and competing cultures to live in a common theme of unity- coexist. Exploitation of the poor for the advancement of the social elite was a breach of God’s covenant claims on his people to be his people instead human race marred God's core purpose and divided the people - This pattern can be seen earlier in Israel’s history in the reign of King Ahab through his foreign wife, Jezebel, who stole the vineyard of a farmer named Naboth after having him murdered -1 kings 21;1-28

BRIDGING THE RELIGIOUS DIVIDE

As Isaiah saw that pattern continuing in Judah, he prescribed the antidote to this selfish ambition at the expense of the poor and the marginalized: true kingship will come in the Messianic era when with righteousness [God’s Messiah] will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth, “But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.”
— Isaiah 11:4 (KJV)

Therefore, a curse devours the earth, its inhabitants suffer for their guilt and few men and women who observe the God’s plan of equity in man’s life will be left,

Isaiah 24 (KJV)

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⁵ The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
⁶ Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
Therefore, God will bring together his people and vanquish oppression. Isaiah 60:1-22

To conclude let us refer to the poem I wrote to pinpoint the world’s spiritual health:

A busy slave man 

by gebrew beware buyungumya

Men and women born with upstanding dreams ended up burning them into the fire made by bloody woods .
Their silly mad leaders to whom they anchored their hopes were only quick to drink wine but not serving devine , 
En they only collected taxes from the peasants so claiming for their majesty.

I am not sure but what I know there still a slavery turned into modern version,
The modern slavery covering the popular umbrella term. 
The chief in charge promised to buy rose for love and passion, 
Buh only the unleashed blood and sweat of busy slave man flow through the system. 
The philosophy of unbrokening all human slavery chain is spared, 
And the modern slavery is hidden by face masks few not so recognize.
 And so the problems of free hungry man forms a territory for slaves not paired, 
em the dumb policy of magic seek the fits to prioritize. 

The moral fabric of humanity hasn’t really caught up with any leaps,
Instead, old damn song of slavery catches our cochlear. 
The song which echoes more even for cops,
 Making them blind to equality and justice so clear.

By gebrew beware buyungumya.

Ibrahim kilulu Buyungumya

MD 2 tucasa muhas

Kiluluibrahim@gmail.com

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