Religion has its own unique way of making even an educated man/woman take leave of his/her senses. A pastor cheats/commit atrocities and is caught, his congregation believes his lies and start praying against his supposed enemy. The only thing the pastor has to do is to come up with very good Bible verses ….and with their charisma and Queens English, the heads of the blind followers are turned. They shout “hallelujah, the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church,” and the pastors keep abusing them.

Some churches even collect offering for a pastors’ bail out money. Back in the days (when religion was not a business enterprise), we see pastors defrocked; mourning and deserted when they are caught in certain acts. But these days, they are untouchable. They are teaching their followers to abandon God and make them gods (they don’t need to say it explicitly like what I just said but through the spiritual abuse they put the members through).

Just look at the South African pastor who turned his church members into herbivores by asking them to eat grass for them to be ‘closer to God’ and was stepping/walking on them during deliverance/church service as if they were Egyptian carpet; (and I thought one pushing my head for me to fall down was the highest form of abuse). The goats (oh sorry), the church members justified the action with one member quoted as saying: “Yes, we eat grass and we’re proud of it because it demonstrates that, with God’s power, we can do anything,” adding that she had been battling a sore throat for more than a year, but it “was healed after she ate the grass.” If human beings are now fighting with animals over their food….trouble!

Worse may happen if church members do not develop a critical mind and do some critical thinking!

A friend told me I am too analytical but spiritual things cannot be understood by the flesh….Ok, but I still need to know why. Obeying a pastors’ instruction that flies against common sense is dangerous. The prophetic church movement is growing and most people, disgruntled by biting socio-economic hardships in their daily lives are looking at escape routes so they have found solace in prophets, apostles and pastors in the new churches promising them heaven on earth and critical thinking has been thrown out of window. What fascinates me most is that these same pastors are using the sense we’ve discarded to make crazy money out of us.

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