As I sit here waiting for the anaesthesia to kick in, watching patients slip into numbness, their minds at peace while mine is a storm, I can’t shake the madness of what I heard in Parliament. My thoughts spin like a needle pulling thread, stitching together the distortions and half-baked history being sold to the masses. Leading the charge in this parade of ignorance is La’auli, spouting nonsense that Samoa is a chosen nation, tying us to Israel like some lost tribe. He waves the Israeli flag, invokes the name of Jesus, yet seems oblivious to the history he’s trying to rewrite. It’s reckless. It’s embarrassing. And worst of all, people believe him.
Let’s cut through the delusion. The Israelites did not honour Jesus; they rejected him, mocked him, and demanded his blood. It was their own high priests who turned him over to the Romans, their own people who shouted for his crucifixion. The very nation La’auli keeps associating Samoa with is the one that stood before Pilate and chose Barabbas instead of Christ. And yet he waves their flag as if it holds some divine link to us. Does he even understand what he’s invoking?
Israel today is a secular state. They do not follow Christ, they do not recognise him as the Son of God, and they do not subscribe to this revisionist fantasy La’auli is selling. He stands in Parliament, draping Samoa in the fabric of a land that has long since moved on from the faith he claims to champion. This isn’t faith – it’s ignorance dressed up as divine revelation.
Samoa was not chosen by God. Samoa chose God. And that is what truly matters. Before Christianity reached our shores, we were a people of war, bloodshed, spirit worship, and survival. Christianity was not forced upon us; we embraced it. We saw the way of life it offered and chose to build something new. That is what makes Samoa great – not some fabricated prophecy, not some desperate attempt to link us to a foreign people who neither know us nor acknowledge the Saviour we worship.
Let’s be clear. Before Christianity, Samoa was ruled by warfare and power struggles. Our chiefs made decisions not by divine scripture but by the sharpened edge of a club. There was no “holy Samoa.” There was no Ten Commandments engraved into the lava rocks of Sapapali‘i by the hand of God himself. Our ancestors were not a chosen people; they were survivors in a brutal world. And when our kings passed, villages waged war to claim the throne. That is our real history.
La’auli speaks as though he is revealing some profound truth when, in reality, he is feeding the people another illusion. He moves from one claim to the next, throwing words around without understanding their weight. First, he says we are a chosen people, then he ties us to Israel, then he waves the flag of a nation that does not even believe in the Christ whose name he so freely exploits. It’s all showmanship.
It’s all empty. And it is dangerous.
Faith is not a political tool. History is not a campaign slogan. And truth is not something you can bend to fit an agenda. The people of Samoa deserve better than this feel-good nonsense. They deserve honesty. They deserve leaders who don’t just throw scripture and symbols into the air to see what sticks.
Samoa is not Israel. Samoa is not a chosen tribe. Samoa’s strength does not come from false claims or grand illusions. It comes from the simple, undeniable fact that we made the choice to build our nation on Christianity.
That is what should be honoured. That is what should be defended. And that is what La’auli refuses to see.
