The Church and the Constitutional Debate

A [wo]man can get exasperated!

You know, i have always thought, now i know it was due to my naivety, that the church, and all religious groups for that matter, were makers of peace.

But i should be quickly reminded that Jesus took a whip and chased people who had turned the house of God into a market! In the same vein, the church of Christ shall not compromise evil.

In 1992, in Rift Valley, i was told a story by a girl who was a victim of ethnic clashes that went on like this " I have, all my life, known that man as the man who preaches the word of God, but that day i saw him cut my father's head off...i was at the window, and i saw my father's head fall down...see the blood sprouting from his shoulders...seeee!" of course what followed was a cataclysmic cough, a violent shiver and convulsion....

She was nine years old.

Every time i think of clashes, i wonder, where did she go?

In 2007, i was told that some churches were uncomfortable with people seeking shelter in their compounds, that actually some sent people, who sought refuge there, away.

Of course the Kiambaa church burned itself, it got annoyed with the people inside and as a result it caught fire.

Let me repent: the examples i give above can only be associated with the rotten apples in the basket of the church, people of evil spirit who hide in the church, and not the church itself.

You see, the most admirable part about the church in Kenya is that it has a clear sense of guilt for commission: The religious group apologised later in 2008 for having let us down, having let the country down, and [if i heard correctly], there was a promise that they shall preach peace.

The church, by a statement signed today, is preparing to REJECT a constitution that has Kadhi's courts. In other words, the church is prepared to make war.

OK. so be it.

If the church rejects this proposed constitution, we shall still have Kadhi's courts since they are there in the present constitution. The church should have ensured that the Kadhi's courts were struck off from the present constitution.

Secondly, the constitution that we have, and the one being proposed are CLEARLY written in the JUDEO-CHRISTIAN spirit and tradition.

Nobody sees this.

Whom does the church consider evil? Muslims? Pagans? Atheists?

Kenyans, we are not making a constitution for Christians, we are making a constitution for Kenyans! And in Kenya, there are Atheists, Muslims, Pagans etc.