Conservatives are flaming each other over a group chat and liberals are protesting "kings." Meanwhile, Christians in Nigeria are being hunted, murdered, and buried in silence.
Video has now emerged of an October 14th mass funeral. Most of these wooden coffins hold children and their mothers.
Take note of the caption on the video. Loud shame, indeed. But even louder silence.
Now watch this pastor - in yet another mass grave - as he stands next to the dead bodies of his brothers and sisters in Christ. Listen to his plea to the world.
Islamist terror groups like Boko Haram have been waging a brutal campaign against Nigeria's Christian population for a decade now. None of this is theoretical. It's happening right now. One Nigerian witness, visibly shaken, described the aftermath:
You are walking, unexpectedly you just stumble on human skull … you are walking unexpectedly on human skeletons … I've never thought that a day is coming where I will witness a 3-year-old baby will be slaughtered like a chicken.
Try reading that again, and experiencing that horror, without feeling it in your chest.
This is what real genocide looks like - not a viral post or a college protest, but mass graves and disappearing villages. And while Nigeria's Christians bury their dead, we in the West bury our conscience in the next political distraction.
This week it's a budget fight. Next week it's a social media spat. Meanwhile, believers on the other side of the world are paying for their faith with their lives.
Rep. Riley Moore of West Virginia recently made a chilling observation on Fox News:
We have been training and equipping the Nigerians in the hope that they were going to stop Boko Haram… well, that's not happening. I think there is a question that there's a collusion between the current Islamic government in Nigeria and these terrorist organizations that are killing Christians en masse.
This isn't random violence. It's targeted, ideological, and absolutely intentional.
The Christians of Nigeria are not aggressors. They build, farm, teach, worship, and for those things, they are marked for death. If this were happening anywhere else, to anyone else, the world would be in an uproar. But these are rural African Christians. So, we look away.
But they're not forgotten by God. And they shouldn't be forgotten by us.
We cannot let our comfort become apathy. While we argue politics, they bury their children. And that should break our hearts enough to act — to pray, to speak up, to give where we can, and to refuse to look away. May those of us who share their faith, share also their pain and their burden.
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