I was happy with the news that a pastor in South Africa was arrested and charged in court for spaying his followers with an insecticide.
According to the news published on the Daily Nation today, the pastor was found guilty on five charges of grievous assault and contravening chemicals laws for using 'Doom', a well-known household insecticide, as a weapon.
"This was a dangerous act, the fact that these people were sprayed on their faces with Doom makes this offense the worst of its kind," magistrate Fran’s Mahodi said, according to public broadcaster SABC.
"Spraying people with Doom injured victims seriously," Mahodi said.
"Some suffered from coughing for more than seven months.”
African pastors have assaulted the gospel to unimaginable extent .
Closer back home, we have heard all manner of weird actions taken by pastors to robe their followers, they mutilate the gospel to suit their selfish interests.
Poor people who are desperate for miracles, especially of financial breakthrough, are the worst hit by rogue pastors.
The funny thing is that they tend to get away with these conning despite the fact it amounts to criminal offense.
The government should follow the example given by South Africa and charge these con men masquerading as prophets and messengers of God.
The rest of Kenyans should not turn a blind eye when our children, sisters, brothers and parents are being led astray by messengers of God who are just after their money and nothing else.
We should not let them believe false teachings.
It should start by regulating the number of churches being presented by these pastors for registration, the government should do a thorough scrutiny before registering a church.
In our neighborhoods, we can enjoy peace because a thousand churches (and more are sprouting) are concentrated in one place and they seem oblivious of the amount of noise they make the whole day and the whole night.
Secondly, we should spend more of our time reading the Bible ourselves so that we can have at least an idea of what the Holy Book is preaching.
We should not leave the entire reading and interpretation to be done by the messenger. Some messengers distort the information before presenting it to the recipient.
For those with extremely weird behaviors like spraying the followers with insecticide, or having sex with the members of the congregation in the name of “blessing them,” the government should arrest them and charge them in court.
Theft is theft, law is law, love is love and war is war.
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