John Kerry does not respect the deeply held beliefs of most people. It is just a fact. The United States Secretary of State, once a respected post, gave a talk to embassy staff in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the first stop on his trip to Africa.
Secretary of State John Kerry remarked about what he called the “different cross-currents of modernity” and the challenges they present on the African continent. Whatever that double speak is meant to convey, I fail to understand. It is plain, however, that Mr. Kerry believes religion is to blame for much of Africa’s recent trouble. He probably prefers to blame Christianity over Islam, but kept his comments somewhat vague.
This is a time here in Africa where there are a number of different cross-currents of modernity that are coming together to make things even more challenging. Some people believe that people ought to be able to only do what they say they ought to do, or to believe what they say they ought to believe, or live by their interpretation of something that was written down a thousand plus, two thousand years ago. That’s not the way I think most people want to live.
The words “something that was written down a thousand plus, two thousand years ago” appear to refer to the Bible, or the Koran, or perhaps both. This as an Islamist is taking credit for the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian girls, planning to sell them.
“I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah,” a man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video first obtained by Agence France-Presse.
Rather than lay the blame at the feet of Islam for such despicable acts, Mr. Kerry instead lumps Christianity with Islam as if their teachings are even remotely related.
Our secretary plainly does not respect the intellectually superior way of living provided by the inspired word of God. Preferring instead the way of foolishness, because he says in his heart there is no God.
