Thoughts behind Roderick Balenda’s Second Novel, “Blood in the Universe; Flowing in the Name of Politics and Religion.”

Political and religious smears have influenced the world because we have failed to raise challenging questions about shallow governments’ media-driven and opportunistic strategies, as well as their dark secrets. Some of these heinous tactics are employed by killers on the extreme right and far left, who have margin views of life and society. The rise of political prejudice, globalists, and ultra-nationalism is not a Western problem, but a global one, as is religious fundamentalism. Political and religious biases prevent people from finding common ground. This leads to tribal, political, religious, racial, and other types of conflict.

Roderick Balenda, a self-published author, published his book Blood in the Universe: Flowing in the Name of Politics and Religion in 2019. Roderick Balenda is a French author of Congolese descent, who was born in France. When the author discusses shallow regimes, he does not refer to conspiracy theories, but rather to persons who assassinate powerful politicians to obtain control while disregarding their subjects, throughout the history of man, in various countries, whether being developed or developing. The author also expresses caution about the dangers of seeing societal problems through an extreme political and religious perspective.

Furthermore, the author discusses the dangers of radical extremism, both on the right and on the left. Furthermore, Roderick Balenda deepens his analysis by pointing out that some of us have failed to learn from history, particularly when covert administrations cause tragedies while blaming opponents they have innovated. These are the same. The author expresses frustration about those who have been perceived as hiding the truth regarding the existence of extraterrestrials for more than six decades. He explains his argument further by wondering why some people threaten those who speak out and expose the truth to the public about such outcomes. At the same time, what the author perceives as shallow governments are employing incredibly powerful technologies unknown to man to plan invasions in other areas of the cosmos and launch interplanetary conflicts, which would culminate in our extinction and the extinction of other living species.

Furthermore, when the author discusses shallow governments, he describes people who promote conspiracy theories to discredit the status quo and to carry out their destructive agenda to put an end to what they perceive as wokism: the author makes it clear in the book that those people have governments in their own heads telling them imaginary staff that has no basis in the real world. The author also never hesitates to criticize Libertarians for their lack of beliefs and character, as well as their inability to learn from history. The author does not deny that religion is a personal matter; while he has realized, since becoming an atheist in 2008, that religious people have the right to practice their religions, the author continues to believe that religious fundamentalists are among those who spread conspiracy theories, terrorism, radicalism, and other social divisions around the world. The book is about two forces that destroy the world: politics and religion.

The author also discusses his encounters with racism from ultranationalists from various East European countries and others online, on his YouTube channels (bnbalenda and Roderick Balenda), where he was accused of depriving Europeans of their identity. White right-wing fanatics online from Finland, Hungary, Denmark, Iceland, Spain, the U.S., the Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Croatia, Germany, and other countries have told him that he is not French-born since French people are white Europeans, despite Roderick Balenda being a French citizen. Additionally, Roderick Balenda also expresses his frustration in the book about the lack of development that he believes countries led by Black politicians are making while wasting time and blaming others for their own failings. Rodrigue has witnessed the progress that many Asian and European countries are making, and he questions why Africans are holding themselves back and expecting others to do it for them. Rodrigue believes that Sub-Saharan African societies reflect themselves negatively to the rest of the world, which is why he believes Africa is misrepresented around the world. This book is not about being comfortable; rather, it is about removing the masks and dealing with events as they get unfiltered.