Honestly, I have been putting off writing this article for months hoping that someone among the clergy will grow a sober head free from evil thought. My hope is frustrated. And it is now my obligation to exhaust my anger and frustrations by putting pen to paper. If after or while reading this you feel like I am winning myself a ticket to hell, make sure you tell me; not that I shall heed your advice but only so that you get to satisfy your misled ego.
The great thing about freedom of speech is that everybody gets to say something about anything, including what does not concern them. That is where the church pisses me off. They want to speak against The Kadhi’s Courts, against gays, against abortion, against this form of government. Whatever has the church ever seen right in Kenya. And whoever needed their opinion?
One particularly incensing issue is the Kadhi’s courts. All religions should be treated equal they say. These courts have been with us since the day Kenya became a country, yet the church is only realising they should not have. After half a century! The fight they have put up you might think we are adopting the Al Shabaab constitution. Not a single non Muslim person has been tried in those courts ever since their formation. The clergy should now remove the blinders and clearly, without beating about the bush speak like the antagonists by declaring their selfish and devilish intent to have the state recognise Christianity as the only religion of Kenya. Muslims want the right to marry, divorce and inherit as is required by their religion. After all, Christians have made all the other laws according to their faith. And we shall deny them that? I dare say that is not the wish of my God.
The church makes it worse in their choice of a proponent. Is she the thief of votes in Starehe constituency, or the woman who denies her poor cobbler husband, or the one she would import for marriage as a popularity gimmick, or is she the entrepreneurial evangelist? So long as Margaret Wanjiru is speaking for the church, I do not need to hear what the church has to say. The church is doomed.
The clergy then pick the issue of abortion. It would all be a very good thing; after all the constitution is for this and the coming generations, except they go on to rant how they will mobilise their members to vote against it. Yeah, right! Like they can do that. If you listen to them, you might actually be deceived into thinking they have anyone to dissuade. I mean, aren’t they the ones telling us that the churches are empty because youths are not into church? Shall they then dissuade those who are too old to get themselves to a polling station?
One major argument the church is using and will always use in opposing anything is that it is against the will of God. That it is against Christianity. Who said everyone in Kenya is believes in God? Who said everyone in Kenya is Christian?
Still, I thought Christianity is about freedom to choose: choose between sex and abstinence, birth control and giving birth, good and evil, heaven and hell, God and the devil. Was not the reason God provided Adam with the tree of the forbidden fruit? So that he could choose between life and death?
The church I feel is either simply trying to put its foot down and show some muscle, or intentionally putting in the books of law what it has been unable to enforce among its dwindling congregation. What else would it be seeking? My God says what is evil and punishes those who do against his wish; he does not prevent them from doing that evil?
I have just finished Bible study and some body read a good verse: -Revelations 3:20 “Behold, I stand at the door and knock, if anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and eat with him, and he with me.” It was particularly striking that the only way God intends to come into anyone’s life is through acceptance of a request He has put forward. It appears the church will bang and pull down the door to gain an entrance.
So clergy, PLEASE SHUT UP AND LET US THINK FOR OURSELVES, for if in deed you had been so clear in interpreting the Holy Bible we would not be having a million denominations, would we?
