A Friday afternoon
and the sweltering sun is not making walking the best of things to do now, not
at least with a tired and drained mind that has been in class at KeMU Towers
since morning. I make my way to the famous KenCom Bus stage and swiftly take my
seat, in a Kawangware-bound City Hoppa bus, to alight at Impala Club and trudge
my way home. As the last passenger occupies the last seat, a man with a huge
Bible in his hands hops in. As the bus hits Kenyatta Avenue, he starts shouting
at the top of his voice as the supposed word of God shoots into our ears.
Am in for one
disturbing ride and must psychologically get ready! He does not even realize
that the passengers here are dead-tired, evidently from work! Some are struggling
to stay awake as others slump into afternoon siestas! The purported pastor goes
on preaching, oblivious of the inconveniences he is causing the tired Kenyans.
By the time the bus gets to Kawangware, he will have gotten some few coins, as
Kenyans touched by the Holy Spirit will have to give their offerings! Do not condemn
this man of God (you wonder if the rest of us are the Devil’s sons!), he is
doing his best to rise up the ladder in this lucrative career of Kupanda
mbegu until he becomes a tele-evangelist or start his own church,
somewhere in the corner! When he gets to that stage he will start making all
manner of proclamations, of how he can prophesy, restore grace into us, cast
out the demons, heal all manner of terminal illness ( even those that science
has been unable to get cures for) and then perform miracles at a rate that
Christ Himself did not! However, this happens only when you take part in the Kupanda
mbagu, like 310, and then you take in some concoction labeled 'anointed
water'.
Some preach on the
buses ( Ngong Road is an example), those who have already struck gold in the
this career do it on our television sets and radios, while the rest take
opportunities at bus stages or recreational places to feed Kenyans with the
word who in turn ‘plant the seed’. Courtesy of this lucrative career, these men
and women fleece Kenyans to the last coin, and drive flashy cars, some ride in
helicopters and mansionnettes are their homes! They care less if the
congregation struggles to survive, barely living! Money is what they need from
you! To them, God continually blesses those who generously contribute to the
offering box, or better still, engage their M-pesa lines! The pastors give the
word, and Kenyans in their numbers, honorably return the favor with a generous
pocket!
Religion has suddenly
become our opium. It is drugging the masses! Restoration, Prophetic and Healing
churches are the in-thing nowadays. We have been brain-washed through the word.
Our ladies (not all) fill Nyayo Stadium to capacity, whenever, they hear that
Pastor Chris Ojigbani is coming to town to give them pastors through the word
of God! These men and women with the Bible in their hands have perfected what
Jesus Christ started and perform miracles at the bait of an eye-lid! They know
that most Kenyans, from Lavington to Kibera are vulnerable to the word, and
evidently will do what these pastors tell them, no matter how outrageous!
Remember, Dr Prophet Kanyari fondling the breast of one of his faithful in
front of the congregation? This is how deep, blind faith has plunged desperate
yet gullible Kenyans into the abyss! Indecency right at the purported altar!
Kanyari’s savagery
antics on desperate Kenyans in a game of deception, where the word of God has
been turned into the product for sale, is not a case in isolation. Maybe, he
was nipped in the bud as he tried to join this class of flashy pastors, who
have already hit it big in this lucrative career. They drive top of the range
cars, dress flashy, live big in leafy suburbs and go by names as, Dr., Prophet,
Man of God et all! They know that religion has an almost unrivalled
psychological hunch and can be used to rally the masses, no matter how
unscrupulous the methods are. Yes, religion is the opium of the masses!
We all know of this
church in town, where the offering box is made of glass and that the preachers
brag of the fact that their God is not a god of little cash! Yes, they use the
Holy Bible to hoodwink, beckon and equally scare the congregation into giving
huge offerings! At least, in that glass box, you cannot drop little money,
otherwise, the pastors will threaten apocalypse upon you and literally tell you
that if you are stingy in your offering to God, then His blessings on you will
be equally limited!
Churches are mushrooming
unabated all over Nairobi. Unlike mainstream churches such as Catholic,
Anglican, Methodist or Presbyterian churches, these pastors and ministries have
no schools or other institutions through which they positively contribute to
the society. These pastors and their ministries take more and more money from
their followers, and sadly as society we do not ask if the money benefits the
society in any way.
The meekness,
humility et all, that the Son of Man preached while on earth are alien to these
prayer predators. They hold the Holy Bible in left hand, while the right hand
writes the devil’s script! For how much more time will Kenyans, go on playing
in this game of religious deception with purported men of cloth? The antics of some
of our pastors are opium and a section of the nation is high on this drug!!!!
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