If anyone was a champion of globalization, it was Ronald Reagan. He was also pro-immigration.
He was the darling of American Evangelicals.
Trump is vocally anti-globalization and the most anti-immigration president in decades.
He too is the darling of American Evangelicals.
So what changed? Nothing to do with the Bible, but the evolution of the US economy. People were hard hit by globalization, and US demographics are at tipping point.
This is what is driving a lot of this.
Sometimes, I feel sorry for Nigerian Evangelicals/Pentecostals who have no concept/understanding of the world, or their place in it.
Many of them believe their mission in life is "to live vicariously for America and Israel".
But that is not Christianity.
There's no religious American that will not try to convince you (often subconsciously) that "God is an American". They are often very successful - especially with Africans.
But if you can't relate your faith to your context, you are missing out on a lot.
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Whenever anyone repeats the NGMI mantra; remind them of the W.E.B DuBois and Marcus Garvey.
These were men who were born into a World where Black people were condemned to perpetual servitude - and they chose to fight, not wallow in self-pity.
You were BORN into a World that has a lot more to offer Black people, because men like DuBois and Marcus Garvey FOUGHT for people like you.
At this point, slavery is a choice - and as Garvey said, "'we are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery".
Every "never going to make it" statement, is an admission of defeat - and defeating yourselves in your minds, is accepting mental, and other forms of slavery.
"As a man thinketh, so is he".
Bob Marley goes ahead to sing, "every man thinketh his burden is heaviest".