Why Africans are toppling the statues of Jesus

And it came to pass, that on the first day of His Second Coming, while He was taking a walk along the banks of the confluence where River Niger met River Benue, the multitude beseeched Him, yelling, “Son of God, Son of God, why do you look different from the picture of yours in all the calendars in our parlors.” Others shouted, “Son of God, Son of God, why do you look different from your statues in front of our church, and by the entrance of our parsonage?”

Others shouted that His carved images on their church windows and doors did not look anything like him.

And he sat them down by the slow-flowing river and told them the parable of one Prophet Muhammad who came after him. And how the prophet had forbidden his disciples from making his image, not in drawings and not in statues.

“Beloved, do you know why he did that?” He asked them.

“No,” the multitude answered, shaking their heads.

And He said unto them. “It was to avoid questions like these that you are asking. He wanted everyone to see him in themselves whether they are man or woman, black or white, tall or short.”

One Ahmadu the son of Bello who was just passing by on his way back to Sokoto asked, “Teacher, did it work for Muhammad?”