On THAT Prophet Dr. David Edward Owuor and his Ministry. 1. The Nakuru Divisional Police Commander Benard Kioko, it is reported on 1st January 2015, confirmed to the Nation newspaper that 5 people died during a gathering convened by one, Prophet of God Dr. David Edward Owuor. The Commander asserts that some of the dead had letters of discharge from various hospitals against strong advice from doctors. 2. There are claims, unsubstantiated independently and competently, that the said Prophet has caused healing and predicted phenomena before. 3. It is important that we appreciate that nobody can ever get ill, sick or disabled by a miracle. No one, for example, has ever got malaria by a miracle or syphylis as a result of someone praying against her or got HIV or EBOLA by miracle. In a sense therefore, it is bullshit for anyone to claim and broadcast that, via miracle or prayer for or fasting, a disease has been cured, a person has been healed. On the score of claims by this Dr. Owuor and his followers of miraculous cures, they are misleading people. 4. It cannot be that we condemn the cults that bar their people from accessing competent medical treatment and even jail their adherents who deny their children necessary medical attention and yet leave this self-styled prophet to roam the country encouraging sick people to attend his crusades for miraculous healing. If those cults and their adherents are in jail for subverting medicine, then Dr. Owuor needs to be in jail too. It is important, to deter a proliferation of cults that deceive people in matters of their health and thus compromise the health of a republic, that Dr. Owuor is charged before a court of law for causing people to be live that he will arrange a meeting where healing will be distributed in a manner far better than our public health. 5. It is foolish and ridiculous of the highest order to use your energy and time to wash the streets of a town with soap and water for a man spotting an unkempt beard and funny white suit to pass by in a motorcade to a crusade venue that does not provide the necessary hygienic holding grounds for sick people. Kaptembwo in Nakuru is a place lacking in various necessary services and the probability of illnesses due to germs is immense. Wouldnt it have been better to wash and clean Kaptembwo for the mass of humanity rather than engage in the silky charade of street washing? And what prophet is this that cures AIDS and Cancers and Vilema and yet is cared shitless of dirty streets? 6. An Internet site for this Dr. Owuor (repentandpreparethewa.org) boasts that the man was HONORED as thousands BLOCKED the streets to welcome him. A person reveling in such vain glory of masses and disruption of normality cannot surely be. Prophet of God. Those who have encountered this mans gatherings will attest to the inconveniences he causes. It is ok for as many desperadoes, weirdos, fools, lawyers, doctors, the poor, politicians etc. to exercise their right to be taken for a ride in the crusades, but it should not be done at the expense of those who have other important matters to take care of. I suggest the ne t crusade be held in the open and spacious land between Garissa and Wajir, the serene comforts of Runda and Karen and Muthaiga in Nairobi and Milimani in Kisumu. 7. It will be absurd if the government does provide some extraordinary services to facilitate this prophets activities, particularly considering that we pay over 30% tax. We need to have this ministry pay for their privileges. 8. That this prophet has resorted to name-dropping and office-dropping, by parading several professionals who unquestionably follow his views and broadcasting the offices they hold (have held) shows vividly that he is trying too hard to sell his miracles. Miracles, if they ever happen, should be able to speak for themselves. If those medical practitioners who testified to try and convince the masses of the powers the mortal Owuor of Goma, Bondo peddles using the public offices they hold, then they should be sanctioned and penalized. This is outright abuse of office. 9. Were Owuor what he claims to be, then he ought to be advised that he would have been useful in the actual reduction of the burden of ill health, corruption etc. He would have, say, miraculously in his crusades summoned all the moneys that have been siphoned from the public coffers to leave the culprits accounts and, miraculously, pay immediately for better constructed and equipped roads, hospitals and schools. He would have summoned lightening and struck to u collectable smithereens all the bad leaders we have in Parliament, Counties, the Opposition, IEBC, those offices that control the price of petrol, seed-reverends, chicken thieves etc. That way he would serve a far more significant public duty, rather than causing people to default from life saving medicines and undermining the efforts for a healthier nation. 10. The irrationality of religion should not be used to paralyze the capacity of individuals to make logical and common sense decisions and take actions that embetter them. As it is, the fiction of these mega-crusades are just as useful balloons flying aimlessly in the air.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 15:57:38 +0000
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