The Gerasene demoniac, Legion, was the first evangelist in the Gospel account of Mark who was freed and went on to tell a different story of political engagement. But we have merely became evangelists for our opposing political parties. In our context we have not freed people from their zombified and colonized experience. We have demanded greater occupation of religious space by political parties with the hope that people would join our side. Instead of restoring people to each other to live together in harmonious relationship, as Jesus did, we shackled ourselves and each other, and condemned
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