Demon!

When Christians Mistake Evil For Righteousness

Even God can’t stand it

Ezinne Ukoha
4 min readOct 21, 2018

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My parents are hooked on WhatsApp like something awful, and while some of the videos are mildly entertaining, and shared images seamlessly link family members across the universe — there’s also the darker side of engagement that’s delivered from long-time friends — who are driven by the urgent need to send reminders that begin with the nonsensical need to “Pray for Trump.”

These so-called Christians are dipped in the stench of performative elitism even as they profess to love God, and are still willing to hate anyone and anything that doesn’t align with their crippling narrow-minded views — that only expose deeper wounds in a spirit that’s infected with the disease of emotional displacement.

Growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, I was privy to this suffocating climate of bedazzled falsehood, that was carefully trimmed into shapes that were meant to match the pages of the Holy Bible — as the ancient words would systematically undergo periodic renovations to accommodate the broader judgments being unleashed as the proper response to an evolving world.

It’s amazing how the name of the Lord is assaulted in the singed name of the devil’s work, and that might explain why Lucifer’s agenda wasn’t all that demonic.

The demons are the well-presented elite, who are willing to praise God for his goodness, while asking for the blessings that they believe they deserve as the reward for cursing out those who embody a lifestyle that they find revolting — simply because of their inability to manage any level of self-fulfillment.

The demons are the unrelenting believers who truly believe that God purposely gave us a heartless manipulator with a penchant for threatening the lives of those he deems as conveniently inferior — as a way to protect us from the virus of free will — and the temptation of engaging in sexual acts that violate the code of the cross-bearing population who are drowning in a pool of sexual repression.

The demons are the well-suited liars, who use their head-to-toe sheen as normalized blinders for hapless followers — who congregate to internalize the distorted word of God that echoes the manipulative messaging — bequeathing a one-way ticket to guilt-trips that…

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