Kachaje: Malawi’s ‘empty’ prayers
If there are countries where people pray a lot, then Malawi must be among the top ten. Hardly do we start any meeting without prayer, including the political rallies where empty and vain promises and personal character assassinations dominate the speeches. It is interesting that before most politicians start lying, they invite a pastor to pray so that “everything they say should bring glory to God”. How ironic.
In Malawi there is an unhealthy obsession to “prayer” alone. In fact, the reason why very little is achieved is because the majority of the people think prayer is the “magic wand” that replaces thinking, strategizing and action. Here are my sober observations:
We pray for rains to grow crops while we wantonly cut down trees. Somehow we are convinced that God will always answer us regardless our violating the laws of nature he put in place to sustain a healthy rainfall cycle. We pray for a “financial breakthrough” to get money to pay school fees forour children, when in fact we had enough time to plan as we saw them grow up before our own eyes. We pray for “God’s intervention” to take care of our large families when we have no clue how to feed them.
We pray for our leaders to govern the country well, even when we clearly know some of the people we might be calling leaders are nothing but thieves, looters and visionless individuals. We believe somehow, God will use even stone hearts to be as kind as angels. We have so much faith that God will surely just miraculously work things out for us.
In developed European countries, people are not as prayerful as we are. But they have created systems that create checks and balances for those they elect into leadership. For example, a Prime Minister in Britain cannot lie to the nation about where he hires a private jet because they have clear and transparent processes to guide issues of national importance. Governance issues are not resolved through prayer.
In Europe, couples have just 2 or 3 children whom they can properly take care of. Usually, they will not have children unless they have stable incomes and sometimes, a house.When it comes to educating children, most families open an education fund account for their children the moment they are born and save some money every month until such a time the child grows up and is ready for college.
Why is it that we, the people that pray a lot seem not to be getting answers for our prayers, while those who are praying less or not at all seem to have the right formula for success and progress? Being Sunday today, this is a question I should probably ask my pastor at church.
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Mr Kachaje, I just want to remind you that everything goes with a season and the Europe you are mentioning has already undergone the period that Malawi is passing through today and they are enjoying the fruits of the prayers that were made by their fore fathers that is why Christianity reached this end. No beating about the bush, let us seek God’s wisdom on our nation.
Watson really does write the most ignorant tosh, does he not?
No mention of Europe having signed up to the Treaty of Westphalia and its role in the creation of toleration of different beliefs across Europe.
No mention of the long period of the European Enlightenment and its role in putting religious ignorance and superstition behind all civilized Europeans.
No mention of the progressive development of science from the time of Galileo onwards and how this fed in to initially an agrarian revolution, then an industrial revolution and now a technological revolution.,
None of these developments – according to foolish Watson – contributed anything whatsoever to the modern development of European society and technology.
No – according to the idiot Watson – all progress is solely down to a bunch of toadying lackies getting down on their knees and praying incessantly for the last two centuries.
It is hard to know where a simpleton like Watson gets these idiotic ideas from.
You are being misunderstood Mr Kachaje
Pray for rains but what are you doing about it? Why not get ready in case the rains dont come again next year? Why are we not implementing irrigation schemes?
chemes? Whose idea was it to sell Press F farms to subsistence farmers? Malawi chonde!
From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. so that’s what lies inside you sir. kodi si mwana wa abusa a CCAP inu kapena ndikulakwitsa. Through prayer God can grant Malawians wisdom to operate even kuposa azungu mukuwagomerawo
Great read and well thought out consideration. But rather than attack our prayer life, perhaps we should consider the entire process of prayer and I take you to the source on prayer models. The bible is full of them, the great one being taught by the Master Jesus found in Matthew chap 6. But outlined so well also is God’s call for us to pray when desolation comes – desolation will come and it has come to Malawi.
This is a call to pray as set out in 2 chronicles 7:14.
Do we want our land to be healed? Then let us follow the steps in 2 chronicles 7:14. God will hear us; God will heal our land.
Are you really as deluded as your writing suggests?
Mr Kachaje Mwaphunzira sukulutu mwayiwala mawu amulungu.Go back to sunday school and read your Bible.Logic and science is not biblical.God operates at a supernatural level and most of the malawians who believe prayer can bring rain where all laws of nature have been violated are right because thats exactly how God works.About how many children and planning thats up to God to decide who should be born where and how.Some of us were born in rugs and its God who fought our wars.God was the only hope and indeed he did it for us.I know you are a prayerful man and truly there is something wrong for you as a believer to write such and article which certainly has given atheists and others to say so many blasphemous things about our God.Just becareful next time.Its God who miraculously brought you up into such a great educated out spocken being.OUR GOD IS A WARRIOR AND THERE IS NO PROBLEM BIG FOR HIM AND HE WILL MAKE A WAY WHERE THERE IS NO WAY AND MALAWI SHALL MOVE FROM PROSPERITY TO PROSPERITY.Amen
small voice is right – as well as small brain and small mind. How can you come out with such total mental rubbish? There is an acronym used in computing studies: GIGO, which stands for “Garbage in, garbage out”. You are the living human embodiment of the GIGO principle.
Human problems require human solutions, coz there is NO DIVINE HELP. Praying to any imaginary god (Yahwe, Shiva, Allah, Buddah, Thor, Zeus, Isis ad infini) is a useless exercise, you might as well pray to the Easter bunny or the maggots feeding on faeces in your pit latrine (at least these are visible in the real world) or jesus, its the same thing, no help will come! Pepani
I give credit to Mr Kachaje on the points he has raised. Only those who misunderstood him oppose his points. To understand what he has stated it requires someone who has Gods eye view of the entire nature. Indeed some of the things we ask God to help us on are the very things we have sinfully destroyed yet God had already put them in place to assist us naturally. In fact, before man was created, God created the hydrological cycle (whose destruction has now caused global warming and affected rainfall pattern) for mans survival; gave man a godly mind free of sin and corruption; introduced perfect interrelationship between man and nature, man and fellow man, man and God Himself; but sin affected mans mindset and altered everything. Now you see altered mindsets in religious bodies, political bodies, and everywhere! Therefore, allow God to renovate your mind! know your responsibility apart from being very prayerful!
Your non-existent gods have nothing to do with the natural world, which has simply evolved to become what it is today.
Think on this: life on the planet Earth has been around in one form or another for around 3.8 billion years. In full figures, that is around 3,800,000,000 years.
Can you grasp such an enormity of time and can you grasp how slowly and how through many initially false routes life on the planet Earth has evolved over that period of time?
Sometimes evolution an be glacially slow; at other times evolution can be amazingly rapid – just look at the way in which viruses evolve to defend themselves against antibiotics.
You really must put your outdated superstitious beliefs behind you and embrace modern ways of thinking, such as evolution and chaos theory – it is the way of the future.
mau mau
I don’t see any reason why any person in the right frame of mind would try to refute what Mr Kachaje(mtendere ukhale pa iwo) has said. Reading between lines, the article is not, in any way, denying the existence of God but it ably highlights the hypocrisy, and the irony on how we conduct ourselves as a society. The examples of situations cited reveal the oxymorons that characterize the manner we conduct our daily affairs. Thank you Mr Kachaje and I am just longing for the opportunity to give you a hand shake for this article of the year. Simple to to the truth.
It’s unfair to get angry at Mr kachaje, he asked an honest and very objective question, and unfortunately most of the Christians are used at lies when their pastors answer this very genuine question and in this forum we have given them a genuine answer: every “answered prayer” is a coincidence there is absolutely no divine intervention whatsoever, because gods are imaginary l, they don’t exist. This is the reason why any of the million amputees in this world will never get their prayer answered (spontaneous limb regeneration) no matter how faithful, devoted to jesus there are.
Prayer is important, but we must know how to do it. When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to pray, he did so with the Lord’s prayer. For me that is the only prayer that we must engage in – not asking for husbands, wives, money e.t.c .
It is possible for God to do anything, but we all know that he does do everything that we desire or ask for – that is the way it is – His will shall always be done even if it means drought, hunger disease etc… But even in all these things his Love is not separated from us.
Malawi government officials inviting people to pray for rain is an insult to God. He gave you the huge body of water stretching 350 km and then you are asking for Water – As Bob Marley would say, in the abundance of water a fool is thirsty. Think about countries much better than Malawi and they are deserts, but they feed their people.
What will save Malawi is opening your eyes and utilising what God has ALREADY given you. Your prayer should only involve thanking Him for it
Kachaje. So it is true that we have a lot of educated fools in Malawi. Your thinking leaves much to desired. What do you to show for all your so called business ideas? Where have you used them? Stop being a text book preacher and learn from people like Myles Munroe. It is stupid of you to criticise things you do not understand
I beg to disagree Mr Kachaje. What do mean too much praying? It is true some people are educated fools. And by the way you are not Myles Munroe but a poor Malawian who has nothing to show for the business noise that you make. So far what have you done with your so called business ideas. For own information not all Malawians think you are smart.
Henry Kachaje is correct. his argument is not that there is no God or that God does not answer prayers. The point is, as Malawians let’s start planning at both micro and macro level. How do we expect God to answer our prayers if we do not work hard. Let’s face it, even Apostle Paul someone who also prayed a lot says ‘if anyone does not work then they should not eat’.
Yea, we have to choose between rainfall and degrading our environment through our various foolish acts.
Odala oKachaje, apa ndiye palibe chimene mwanenapo chabodza. Ndithudi!
People, especially Malawians, must learn to reason other than wasting time gathering thieves and looters to pray for rains. These thieves and looters will find something to eat no matter what while you poor lot will die of hunger waiting for things that will not happen. Hippocrists!! You have wantonly cut down trees, burnt all grass, killed all animals, and you now want to pray? for what? Hypocrists!! Good for nothing
Dont criticise those who believe in the power of God.Sometimes satan can use you to do his work whilst you dont know.May the Almighty God forgive those that come to oppose underrate His abilities. Amen.
Mao said ‘religion is th opium of the masses’. While the masses get dizzy from the p reachings, the preachers or prophets remain sober and steal the offerings under the noses of the believers.
Mao said ‘religion is the opium of the masses’ nothing more! While the believers get dizzy from the preachings, the preachers remain sober to steal under their noses.
A number of commentators have cited extracts from the bible as though this is the very last word on everything. Only the truly gullible truly believe everything they read.
Especially gullible are those who apply literalist interpretations of the fiction found in this poorly written publication.
There are huge unexplained portions within it which undermine the veracity of the bible.
Take the story of Cain slaying Abel as an example.
The bible story book says Cain left the land east of Eden and went to the Land of Nod, where he took himself a wife. Where did she come from? Who – or what – created her?
Who – or what – created her parents and other living relatives not mentioned in the bible?
What other beings had also been created who were not mentioned in the bible?
There’s no mention of dinosaurs in the bible. Why is that? What else is missing?
Mr Kakaje is very right, just a prayer is nothing but actions, please tadzukani a Malawi. You pray but you suffers a lot like for rains to come you dont need God but just plant more tree and stop cutting down tree you will see what will happen. God is there by not evrything God will just do it before your action. Zama prayers ndiye mukuchedwadi a malawi. Its the same whites who told you how to pray but them the dont pray but they have everything. Shame Africa, Shame Malawi
The devil is a liar
I note that one of your religious commenters uses the fictitious name of Amazing Grace. That truly is ironic as the person involved presumably is invoking the title name of a song written by a certain John Newton. Newton was a slave trader who wrote the song after surviving a particularly vicious storm. His concerns were for his own skin, not for any of the slaves. It is an unbridled piece of selfishness, way beyond anything most decent people could possibly contemplate. How can anyone use such an appellation to describe themselves?
King jaffe jogger, better to believe than not! Kkkk, you sound like taking an insurance policy on belief, given your god is all knowing, I am sure if he is real he should have already figured this out that you are trying to cheat and if I was a god, I would see right through thus trickery! How moral is it? Lastly, you cannot prove something doesn’t exist, can you prove all the Greek, roman, Egyptician gods don’t exist? Non existence is non existence, the ones that will always prove are the ones stating the affirmative, he exists! And so far, no evidence exists, sorry….
The most hypocritical aspects about believers is: suppose religion had nothing to offer in the afterlife, suppose god had nothing to offer after prayers, what would be your reasons to love him? It’s seems to me that the love of god to all Christians is not because you really love him, but because of what he has or could to do you! It’s conditional love at best, nothing genuine about it! It’s very sad and I feel sorry or this god!
@ m’busa, I thought the very same bible says “…whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire (Matthew 5:22).
Point of correction Mr…..Britain is governed by Church of England!!!!Dont you ever underestimate the power of the body of Christ. The fact that in your eyes might think you are more successful than those who pray alot…watch your mouth God resist the proud……success is not about how much you have stolen, how much in your eyes wealth/materials you have aquired over time.
Britain is hardly governed by the Church of England any more.
It is true they still have 26 bishops sitting in the House of Lords – now widely viewed as elitist and unrepresentative – and they each lend zero credibility to one another.
Attendance at Church of England services has dropped steadily over the last 20 years and it will not be too long before the non-religious will outnumber the religious in Britain.
As others have pointed out, how is it that non-religious countries experience far greater success and progress than supposedly god-fearing countries like Malawi?
That is the conundrum you will only ever solve once you realise that it is solely human intelligence and reason that helps human beings to advance – not superstitious ideas.
Prayer is never an end in itself but a means. No scientific evidence that God doesn’t exist, neither one that he does. However, the feeling of a super being is overwhelming. Better to believe that not. You have nothing to lose but the loss is unimaginable is your disbelief is disapproved when it’s too late. This is a chilling warning to all atheists.
Your response is nonsensical. Prayer achieves nothing because no one and nothing – apart from you – actually listens when you are praying. You are talking only to yourself.
As for claiming that science does not prove that something you refer to as ‘god’ exists, the same could be said about teams of tea makers living at the centre of the planet Earth or inside the Moon or on the planet Mars or inside the Sun. Almost anything utterly ridiculous by your definitions could be said to exist, however completely ludicrous.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, those of us who choose reason rather than delusion live good lives for ourselves and others in our societies.
You may be happy wallowing in pure selfishness but we are not like that.
Very sensible Mr Kachaje.
I leave in Europe but I am holding my tears reading this reality. I couldn’t agree more. Malawi hare a rotten society to the core
The fool says in his heart, “There’s is no God “(Psalm 53). There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength. Come on aetheists, secular humanist, Yeah, you’re doing a good work for the devil with your futile thinking. But believe you me, one day you shall meet God and shall give account of all you have done and said. (at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, in heaven, on earth and under the earth ; and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father)
Do you truly understand what you yourself have written?
Do you understand that you have expressed the personal opinion that what you perceive of as your “god” is ‘foolish’?
As a humanist, I do not believe in non-entities such as gods, devils, angels, whatever.
But it is not my beliefs here that count but yours.
I repeat, do you truly believe in ‘the foolishness of God’ – in your own words?
One of the many reasons I do not believe in your “god” is that it is impossible for any rational person to believe that such an entity would have been incapable of foreseeing the behaviours of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Even discounting the utter stupidity of anyone believing in a talking snake, how can it be possible for an alleged being with the alleged powers of being all-knowing, all-powerful and all-seeing having been so incapable of predicting that forbidding Adam and Eve from partaking of the fruit of good and evil would have ended up being ignored by them – as any ordinary parent on Earth could have so easily predicted? As the story goes, your “god” had predicted that eating the fruit would result in them losing their lives, which – so the story goes – the so-called talking snake denied. In the event, the alleged talking snake was the teller of truth and your “god” was the teller of a lie because Adam and Eve did not die after eating the fruit of the tree.
So, not only is your so-called “god” foolish but he, she or it is clearly an established liar too.
After eating the fruit – so the story goes – they realised their true nakedness and then covered themselves with leaves and hid from your “god”.
WHO COULD NOT FIND THEM!!!!
Repeat – Could not find them!
How can this possibly be true of a being which is all-knowing and all-seeing?
It only makes sense when you accept that the story of your “god”, Adam, Eve, a talking snake and a so-called Garden of Eden are all just aspects of a wholly fictional story.
There is no true reality to any of it.
And there is no “god”.
You started a subject which I think you have little or no understanding at all. Suggest you leave it to the anointed people of God to give their insights on this issue.
As for me, I truly believe that God has his way. I can pray and fast for a problem or problems but if God does not answer to my prayers, it does not mean that he is not listening; he does. It does not matter how long it takes be it weeks, months years, I still maintain my patience, faith in him and obeying as much as I could(loving him as he loves me to pass the love to others too). Unfortunately there are many of us who put time lines to God to answer our prayers and when we do not receive results, we always think he does not answer us.
The extremely simple reason your “god” appears not to answer your prayers is because your “god” does not exist.
When you pray, you talk only to yourself.
No one else is listening.
No one and nothing else will do anything for you.
You have to use your own intelligence and reason to get on in this world.
Leaving it to non-existent entities will get you nowhere.
92 percent of the Chinese don’t accept the existence of God yet they are the ones succeeding much globally. There are some disadvantages of being a prayer freak. Too much into prayer limits the way one thinks, you start your programme and believe at the end its only prayer that accomplishes while non believer don’t rely to unseen efforts, they start something and believe no strange unseen powers will accomplish it but themselves.
Let me confess first that I was naturally born with anti begging genes and I say a brief prayer at least once a weak but I receive what I ask for within days. Malawians have gone mad with prayers to the point that they are too lazy to use their heads. The obvious and all time available answer that God gave us is our brains which we move with everywhere. How can you pray while in an exam room instead of when you were studying?
Let me tell you what pleases God most, its nothing but sharing. When you pray God sees first how many people are going to benefit in what you ask for that’s why Chinese are succeeding in what ever they do though without prayer but they get what they want. They share what they get with the poor.
What is the basis of your claim that the Chinese ‘share what they get with the poor.’?
how i wish many could read and borrow a leaf from this. exactly. may be its bcoz most peoples minds have been corrupted by religion. thank you for opening our eyes and minds. big up.
Give a man a fish..u will feed him for a day..but give him religion ..he will starve while praying for fish
Religion is Bs
Kachaje,
you can see from the responses of theists : its the humans that are faulty, the god they are praying to are perfect, all powerful and loving, but if he doesn’t answer prayers, WE MUST BE THE PROBLEM? This the tactic most people employ called “SHIFT THE BLAME”, I think its important they gave you an answer, coz if we are the problem, how come people in Netherlands are fine, a country were the majority don’t believe in jesus, where homosexuals, strip clubs, prostitution and booze are perfectly okay and legal? Yet has less crime, no witch killings, more social support, better health care, less newborn deaths, longer life expectancy?
Guys! I understand: Its comforting to feel there is someone or something looking out for us, but unfortunately that’s NOT the case based on the evidence! as Jimbo has said there are more galaxies than all the humans that have lived on this planet added together, this universe is for a fact: 13.6 billion years old and humans, the only life form to worship any god, has been in existence less than 0.000001% of the time! And the belief in Yahwe (the Christian god) is less than 6000 years old! It implies that for >99% of the age of the universe, the universe has been totally ignorant of Yahwe! Kachaje, as a newborn we lack the knowledge of any god, Religious belief is implanted in the childs mind during upbringing, thats why some a hindus, muslims, buddah or christians. Its completely arbitrary, there is NO EVIDENCE that one religion is better than the other coz all are based on faith and NOT evidence. Some of you, Xstians, are already thinking “the bible,” really? To say the evidence comes for the bible, is a clear indication that you are ignorant about the history of Xstianity and the many religion that preceeds it and sadly, these text you call “holy” will one day end up on the fictional/mythology category of all libraries. One thing for sure is that: Religion is comforting, but its FALSE CONSOLATION, rational thought and science is the ONLY WAY of establishing the TRUTH, it can be brutal, faceless and honest. I would rather live in truth than false hope, i think that is more moral and genuine. What is interesting about the Xstian faith is: To AFRICANS, CHRISTIANITY IS A BORROWED RELIGION, imported from europe by the white settlers. African have very little knowledge about this faith, after all we have just known it for 1500 years old, therefore europeans history is well aware about its history and obviously most of the descendants of the missionaries no longer believe it in the 21st century, but the africans now own it and actually call the europeans “satanic worshipper”? Isn’t ironical?
As a European humanist and secularist, I know that much of what you say is correct, though the practice of parents saving up to meet their children’s higher educational needs is not universally experienced across Europe. In England, the requirement to pay higher education fees is relatively new and it has been quite some time since university students received maintenance or subsistence grants. In Scotland, higher education entitlement is free of charge for students resident in Scotland or elsewhere in the EU (though not free for students normally resident in England). The practice of parental saving to meet the higher educational costs of their own children is something that has been imported from the USA.
A recent poll conducted in Iceland established that 0 per cent – i.e. “None” – of those polled in the under-25 age group believed that god created the Universe.
This trend of increasing secularism is gradually sweeping across Europe as ignorance and superstition are gradually being left behind by all sectors in society.
Just about the only people who hold strong religious beliefs in Europe are usually migrants from economically poorer and societally more backward parts of the world.
Given time, religion will inevitably disappear from Europe, though backward parts of the world like Southern, Central and the US parts of Northern America, as well as parts of Africa, will almost certainly continue to sustain higher levels of religiosity as a result of their more primitive educational, healthcare and social welfare systems.
Truly, if you want to advance as individuals, families, communities and societies, there is only one way: leave religion behind.
This is a perfect reality in Malawi. The countries you are referring to Kachanje do not allow young generations or youths to be too prayerful. They give them time to be educated and contribute to development. Praying is part of religious theology. It is about understanding God and experiencing faith and spiritual life. It is not a developmental science or matter. The problem with Malawi is that we always have our priorities upside down. We are a lawless nation associated with such attributes like cashgate, killing, lying, cheating, stealing, laziness and unpatriotism. Our mind set is a serious matter. We have taken all these problems to GOD (something we have never seen) and believe that he will to solve all our evils. In fact no need for prayers at meetings that glorifies devilish actions.
We need to dream in true colors. We need to have vision. We need to look to our selves to solve our problems. Theology is not an an answer to our deep rooted problems. We need a hardworking and principled citizenary with high level of integrity.
An excellent response ‘gushu’ (No, 15). Genuine rational thought can only lead to one conclusion, there is no god. We humans are nothing in this vast universe. There are more stars and planets than there are humans on this earth! The old saying that ‘God helps those who help themselves’ proves the point. If you don’t plan and help yourself in this life, there is no god who is going to do it for you. Unfortunately most Malawians are so poor and struggling to survive that belief in god and a life hereafter where everyone will be happy and comfortable, is to some extent understandable. This attitude only results in believers giving up on their responsibilities and leaving everything to god. The only ones really benefiting from religious belief are the church/mosque/temple leaders who grow wealthy and fat from their followers donations!
I like the truth in this article…God exists and He is real but humans are disobedient they act hypocritically…laziness and blame shifting wont take us far..bravo Kachaje..this is my best article on nyasatimes this year
Mr Kachaje, with all due respect, I hope this article brings Glory to the God you claim to serve. what are you communicating on the other side of the coin? You are the only malawian who has eyes in this nation such that you have come to judge the prayers of all malawians? When have you become an angel standing in between Malawian’s prayers and God? I think you have become too proud that you think you know it all. Asiyeni anthu apemphere, inutu siwoyankha mapemphero a anthu.Mulungu simunthu ndipo saganiza mwa uchimo ngati inuyo. By the way, How many JETS do you have with all the talking that you do? How many mansions do you have? Teach us by what you have, you must be a billionaire by now that’s taking by how much you talk. Talk Less, Show us actions in this year 2016.
Eeehh Gushu. I’m sorry, I can’t agree with your comment. Let those who believe continue praying to God the creator and sustainer of all living, they will always get a sweet response somewhere. But you relaxing and insinuating there is no God, then it is a pathetic comment.
@ John: The answer to your question is: We have different hair length, colour and texture coz of genetic variations in the same genes that code of hair length texture and colour, these changes were random but modelled by natural selection.
However lets look at the following facts:
It terms of all social demographics (death rates, nutrition, infectious diseases, poverty, quality of life, etc) ALL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ARE BY FAR MUCH MUCH BETTER THAN MALAWI, AND yet IN TERMS OF RELIGIOSITY (number of churches per population, number of prayers per population) MALAWI SURPASSES MOST OF THEM MANY MANY TIMES. A LOT OF THESE “ATHEISTIC” COUNTRIES ACCEPT “ABOMINABLE AND “SINFUL” THINGS SUCH AS HOMOSEXUALITY,
THE REAL question we should be asking is: If there is an all powerful god, who is passionate about fairness and justice. A god that loves and cares about us equality WHY DOES HE ALLOW SUCH DISCREPANCIES? why should an innocent african newborn with very religious uneducated poor parents have a 20 times risk of death than a european baby with parents who are educated atheists?
Explain that to me? Is it not obvious the real determinants of this discrepancy IS NOT RELIGION
Kachaje: download a map of religious belief globally, you will see that the boundaries are artificial, very plastic and NOTHING NATURAL OR GENUINE can distribute itself in such a manner!
Kachaje, I believe you are educated and has a fairly good grasp of rational thought! Hasnt it ever occurred to people that may be, just may be these gods we pray to are non existent?
Why should praying to allah, of shiva the hindu god or any other god produce the same results? Isnt that a clue ? Why should any god whether fake (according your particular belief) or “presumably” real one according to you produce the same result? surely , if there was one genuine god would that become very very obvious by now, coz we would expect his adherents to be clearly better off than all the infidels in terms of quality of life and moral values? the biblical god specifically says “ask and you shall receive” If he is real and all loving, then we should have seen less Xstians than atheists suffer and die of HIV, africa would have been the best place to live (given the support and praise Yahwe has on this continent.
Furthermore, why should poor xstian nations accept financial assistance from countries that are atheistic, accept gay marriages. If yahwe is real then he surely works in hypocritical ways!! If he is real then he is immoral in this respect (according to our standards of morality). The evidence that gods are non existent far much out weighs the evidence he exists and I think in the end rational thought, hard work and objective thinking through scientific progress is really the only way. Kachaje, the answer is really staring at you in the face but people will always make up irrational and convoluted explanations for this observations because the primary premise is : there is an all powerful, loving , all knowing god! But as most people have looked at this hypothesis, the simply explanation is that: since time in memorial men have created gods in their own image to explanation natural phenomenon they didnt understand. Laws on nature (universe) are blind and favor no-one, there is No designer!
Mmmmmmmmm Mr kachaje don’t compare Africans with Europeans ask your self why do you have short hairs if you get the answer then will never compare us with Europeans
I agree with you. One thing that stands out in developed countries is their honesty though they pray less. They are honest in their dealings and if a leader is suspected of foul play somewhere, without regard to how it will affect their personal income/status etc, they resign to pave way for though investigations. If only Malawians could be honest in our dealings, hospitals will not lack medicines, no one will go hungry… the list can go on and on…
This is worthy commenting…I just like it.
Mr. Kachaje, respect! what a man of courage. You say the truth only the truth
bwana Kachaje, there is some truth in what you have written. I for one I totally agree.
I doff my hat for you Kachaje. I feel well represented with your wise article. We are a fake nation. We take delight in symbolism. People may wish to know that even China which has just given Malawi over MK6 billion to buy maize has no any religious values.
Thus the very fact of life bt in the churches & families they don’t teach or preach about such things bt I have heard them in one church in south africa called Impact for christ ministries by Prophet Philip Banda from Zambia when he said u can’t hv achild without planing of they future!
“…Prime Minister in Britain cannot lie to the nation…”
“In Europe, couples have just 2 or 3 children…”
Author, oh my author. Aren’t you comparing “mangoes” and “apples”? Or better, “civilized” and “uncivilized” societies, perhaps. Or worse, “angels” and “demons”.
On population, author, let me reiterate what I’ve said before: Malawi must URGENTLY get hold of its “instruction-pointer” to have some control over its population growth. Already, dark suits in Western capitals are deeply concerned about what they have called Malawi’s population “crisis”. Strangely enough, none of Malawi’s recent presidents has taken decisive steps to address the population problem. They have ceded all that power to USAID, DFID, EU, UNICEF,… This is naive, if not STUPID!!!
And we say leaders are chosen by God. My foot. They are chosen by the poor masses that they bribe with handouts.
World!
Bwana ndinu mr kachaje, munthu osaopa
Bwana Kachaje. You’ve hit the nail on the head. We blind ourselves as a God Fearing Nation, when we are the worst Devils around. A Nation that will steal resources meant for the poor, drugs in hospitals, and the Ndamuliza syndromme. The list is just too long to continue. I rest my case.
Thieves, looters and visionless individuals as leaders indeed!
Wisdom