The last time I set foot in church, Nelson Mandela was not yet president. I realised early that Christianity was foreign and had nothing to uplift the African child.
The idea of listening to someone (often male) regurgitating what’s in the Bible every Sunday did not have any appeal. I can read it for myself and now and then, I do. The Book tells the history of people I do not relate to.
As a matter of fact, Christianity is on the decline in Europe, the continent that brought it to us. Yes, it was the colonialists who scorned our beliefs and insisted we were savages who needed their “saviour”. Baptism was our only way for salvation. What a crock.
Through my reading, I realised there were other religions: Buddhism and Islam.
What I don’t understand is our people’s obsession with Christianity. We seem to believe in it more than those who brought it to us. The most advanced economy in the world, China, doesn’t give a hoot about some Middle Eastern religion. But Africans do. Our subjugation is complete.
We have seen it all because of the cult of Christianity. Our people were sprayed with Doom; they were fed grass and snakes. Fugitive Shepherd Bushiri robbed our masses. Once again, a foreigner has poured opprobrium on our country. This past weekend, a Zimbabwean “prophet” baptised our people in the Jukskei River and 15 of his followers were swept away in a torrent and died.
At the time of writing, the whereabouts of pastor Kind Kupe remain a mystery.
There’s just something amiss with my fellow Africans. Kupe apparently smeared a concoction of milk and egg white on his followers and then washed it off with river water.
How long are we gonna fall for these tricks? The commission charged with ensuring we don’t fall for these gimmicks has failed us.
Fifteen lives were lost for no good reason. The so-called prophet must account for his devious ways, but knowing our constitutional democracy, he will get away with murder.
Not so long ago, a charlatan claimed to have raised a corpse from the dead. Lukaku made headlines and got away with murder. Our country is a playground for all manner of charlatans, and those in power simply don’t care.
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You are talking nonsense!
You are a plain antiChrist trying to brainwash people from the truth. Although gimmicks have been seen but we cannot disqualify the fact that Jesus Christ is Lord!
Christianity has contributed to the unity and peace of our country dating back from the apartheid era to date.
The reason people including myself are obsessed about this faith it is simply based on facts that we have seen them manifest in our lives.
Our country is ruined because of witchcraft identifying itself as “African beliefs” sangomas are ruining our country and blind souls like yourself seems to be cheering for them.
Prayer was canceled in schools and suddenly kids are being possessed by demons and we have to watch and call it a “calling of the ancestors”
These criminals and rapists who do they consult for their charges to be dropped? Sangomas! and that is the same sangoma that you Vusi are consulting in order to get rid of your colleagues when retrenchment looms.
Read on Salvation. There are no shortcuts in our faith. The reasons we see wolves in sheep skins is simply because people like yourself want shortcuts.
You mentioned a Prophet robbing people, on what fact is that based on? Look at the state of our economy, is is to blame? Religion?
What is our beliefs as Africans? Is it the stupidity that we should worship the dead? Why do we write RIP in headstones? You can’t consult the dead on behalf of the living.
Isaiah 8:19:22
You are not a Christian therefore you do not qualify to write about Christianity.
Wena you are danger not only to yourself but to the society at large and hell is where you are going for deceiving souls!