Fidel Castro told a story at his 1995 Harlem speech,
about how Spaniards came to Cuba with the sword and the cross. He said,
"You should understand that the cross cannot be introduced by the
sword." Then he continued the story of the Cuban native who rose against
the conqueror and was sentenced to die. While on the fire he was told that
there is heaven and that he needs to be baptized to be in heaven. To which the
native answered, "If the Spaniards go to that heaven, I do not want to go
there!" Castro further said, “He did not say that he believe on it or not,
he just said that if they go to heaven then I do not want to go there. And now in this world, there are so many who
speaks about heaven, right here in this world, so full of abuses, so full of
injustice, they talk about heaven. And in that sense I could say, that heaven
that you practice in this world, we do not want to go there, we do not believe
in that heaven! We want to go to a heaven were there justice, were there is
human dignity, were there is brotherhood. And in that heaven, I believe and for
that heaven I am willing to give up my life.”
Castro, a brutal dictator to his enemies while a
champion of anti-imperialism to others, irregardless of who he really is, his
Harlem speech, speaks so much truth about duplicity of some people practicing
religion.
Truth hurts, but there is no other way than to
face it.
We are the reason why people shy away from God. We must practice
Christianity and not just talk nor preach about it. Let us be Jesus to others.
by aats
The more we do not practice and live out our faith, the more people will be discouraged to know God because of us.
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