Colonialism did a number on my people. It did not just steal land and resources, it rewired minds, shattered confidence, interrupted knowledge systems, and taught generations to doubt themselves while venerating everything foreign.
It also brought a foreign religion which my people now misinterpret even by the standards of the Christian Bible. Kissing objects is idolatry, which the Bible repeatedly condemns as giving reverence, power, or devotion to objects.
The embracing of something foreign that many do not fully understand to this day damaged many people psychologically as much as it did economically, and we are still living with the aftershocks.
Religion is now being misinterpreted. Venerating objects is forbidden in the Christian Bible. Exodus 20:4–5 clearly says, “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them.”
1 John 5:21 says, “Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.”
This is broad and uncompromising, covering all forms of idolatry, including religious ones.
Yet people who claim to be Christians will defend this nonsense which their own Bible forbids, showing that they do not even understand their chosen religion.
A pastor once told me that only a few Christians actually bother to read the whole Bible, and only a fraction of those who read go on to develop any intellectual curiosity.
When a physical representation of Jesus’ body is bowed to, prayed before, kissed, or treated as spiritually powerful, it fits the biblical definition of idolatry, which is directing reverence or devotion to a created object.
The Bible is clear that God is not to be represented by human-made images, and Jesus, as divine, is not exempt from that prohibition. Scripture repeatedly warns against reducing the divine to wood, stone, metal, or clay, regardless of intention. The focus of Christian faith, biblically, is the risen Christ, not a physical likeness of his suffering body.
I am not a Christian. I do not believe in religion, but I respect those who choose religions, particularly Christianity. However, if you choose to be a Christian, and you know that the Christian manual is the Bible, then at the very least do what your own manual says instead of practising what is essentially paganism. You cannot claim to be a Christian while openly going against the clear teachings of the religion you say you follow.