When Divine Silence Meets the Roar of Guns

This Sunday, churches in southern Nigeria will fill with worshippers seeking God’s presence. Yet the violence around us—massacres, bombings, abductions—raises hard questions: if the Christian God rules all, why does He not intervene? The same critique once aimed at African deities—why did they not stop slave ships or scatter colonizers—now applies to Christianity. If a religion born in one land claims universal truth, we must admit its spread often followed conquest, trade, mission, and empire. Perhaps all religions are human systems shaped by history, power, identity, memory, and hope. True transcendence would transcend any one book, language, or institution. Before we rush to “defend the church,” we should recognise we are defending our inheritance, identity, and the story that gives life its order.

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