The United States Military’s constant attacks in Caribbean waters are murders, says Reverend Canon Dr John Rogers.
Preaching from the pulpit of his assigned St George Parish Church on Sunday in all three of his services, Rogers, also Independent Senator, referenced the ongoing strikes the US has been making against Venezuela while claiming to be going after drug traffickers.
“People feel that might is right and that they have power to kill. We’ve had murders taking place in our waters in this region and that’s what it is. We need to call it for what it is. You’re murdering people ‘cause you have no evidence. You’ve produced none.
“I could be out there on the water in my little Moses and somebody take me out. It is distressing. It is distressing after all these years of Christian witness in the world, after all these years of what we’ve seen this type of behaviour can do,” Rogers told his congregations.
The Anglican cleric based his sermon on the biblical account in Matthew 23:11-12 that warned those who exalted themselves will be humbled and those who humbled themselves will be exalted.
“I could not help but speak of this whole point of exaltation and submission without speaking of the geopolitical crisis that is emerging in our region, I believe extant in our region now. I want to speak to my Christian brothers and sisters in particular who believe that what is happening down here is right. You cannot start wrong and end right.
“We have one of the largest military build-ups in our region against a nation that has been accused of harbouring narco-terrorists that are funnelling fentanyl into the United States,” he said.
“The United States’ own department in its report does not even list Venezuela as a trafficker of fentanyl. I’ve said that to say it’s a lie. But the world is silent; everything is quiet as though it’s normal. It is wrong and it must be called out as wrong,” Rogers declared.
The most fentanyl trafficked in the US was across the Mexican border, he said, pointing to statistics that showed last year more than 80 per cent of the drug traffickers recognised
in the world were from the US.
The United States “seems to have a problem with the truth, but don’t worry, those who exalt themselves will be humbled. That’s the word of God”.
The priest warned regional leaders about believing that keeping quiet meant that they were good, as that only meant they were not the target at present.
“We cannot sit quietly and see evil being perpetuated in our region and say nothing. It is wrong. It is a lie and we must call it out for what it is because today is the children of Venezuela who will be suffering, tomorrow it will be us.”
Rogers stated that he was thinking about how Venezuelans must be feeling as they were already struggling under a government with serious challenges, and “here were people coming to make life more difficult over a lie, and we must keep saying it’s a lie”.
People being humbled have been repeated throughout history but “everybody thinks they’ll come after and and perfect it”, the senator said.
“But the world does not remember tyrants in that way. The world does not remember oppressors in that way. Who the world remembers are those who have been meek and have sought righteousness and peace in the world. We celebrate them every time we come to mass. Those are the ones who are remembered.”
He also cited the parable in Luke in which Jesus talked about the rich man who showed off the wealth from his fields and was convinced he would live out his life in peace.
“We’re told that very night the word of the Lord came to him, ‘Thou fool, tonight your soul will be required of you’. We can send that message to those who think that their military build-up in this region means something in the sight of God,” Rogers said. (AC)
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