The blindness of privilege: Pastor Paul Adefarasin and his call for an exit plan By Thu May 20 2021 Pastor Paul Adefarasin of House on the Rock – a man whose net worth is estimated to be about $50 million (although he reportedly said a few years ago that he was a billionaire)- told his parishioners to make sure to have a plan B out of Nigeria because “these people are crazy.” His wife, he said, was busy sorting out their plan B. Ah! ‘To be wealthy na good thing oo.’ Folks, the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth. It is access to a viable plan B, and the options that come with it. The opposite of poverty is privilege. And you know what they say about privilege being blind? If you have it and you don’t pay attention, you assume everyone else does and if they don’t, then it’s their fault. The cavalier manner in which Adefarasin threw out the advice of a plan B is evidence of his privilege-induced blindness. Also, one could argue that for someone who (together with his pastor-wife, Ifeanyi) preaches fervently and forcefully about faith and belief and “not listening to the lies of the enemy” and against despairing, his comment seems both hypocritical and deeply marinated in despondency. It is either he has very little conviction in what he preaches or he thinks that the situation is so dire that hope is practically impossible. Neither option is a good one for a man of the cloth.