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#21 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 11:25:12 AM
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folks, defeated the red camp maybe but they have played a very significant role in the history of kenya's new katiba: they indirectly made us to read the katiba more carefully and subject it to a more thorough & detailed debate than would have been the case if all were ayes from the beginning. Never before has the kenyan katiba been read as widely as it has by so many ordinary kenyans as has been in the last year or so.

For that role, thanks REDS.
Magigi
#22 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 11:26:54 AM
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@Pastor M
...I prayed day and night that it goes through...You prayed day and night that it fails. My prayers were heard. GOD is GOOD...
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#23 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 11:32:57 AM
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We should remember that this is a constitution and not a holy book. We're not rewriting The Holy Bible, The Holy Quo'ran or The Gita.

So Lucifer will continue his work as usual because if you read your Bible, after Jesus came we stopped being judged as Nations and we will be judged as individuals for your body is the Temple of God.

BBI will solve it
:)
the sage
#24 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 11:43:44 AM
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On Sunday we will preach the gospel.
NB I m proud of the Kenyan Church she stood united and spoke in one voice.
Church was not united, and, the results show that Kenyans are beginning to take the truth as authority as opposed to the authority as the truth.
We are having our very small Enlightenment Era.
Wa_ithaka
#25 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 11:47:32 AM
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The pishops and their minions made the fatal error of getting involved in politics and becoming politicians. Politicians are liars and that is how the pishops have played it.

Luckily for them, Kenyans have sort memeories and will paying sadaka and other underhand fees as usual in a short time
The Governor of Nyeri - 2017
muganda
#26 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 11:48:07 AM
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@masukuma, sad I have to say this but, the clergy are often fornicators as well - irrespective of whether they voted Yes/No

That being said, I believe respect must be given to those who dedicate themselves to God's work, even though they are only human.


Ecclesiates 7:20 For there is not a just man on earth, that does good, and sins not.
Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, "I have kept my heart pure; I am clean and without sin"?

muganda
#27 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 11:49:25 AM
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@Pastor M, ignore comments made in bad taste. I have to disagree with your OBEY position. While I agree 4/6 of congregation may have hard hearts, it is wrong to construe a YES vote as disobedience.

God saw it fit every man has a conscience and St. Thomas Aquinas said conscience is the voice of God. So it's possible to be very God fearing and still vote YES; just as Jesus asked people of Judeah to pay taxes to Ceaser while still believing in God.



On another note, is it possible about 15hrs ago, Nation mistakenly showed NO in the lead as noted by one Erik Hersman The @dailynation referendum twitter results are *exactly opposite* of the IIEC results on their own website...!?"

Disappointed to see claims of rigging emanating from NO clergy - sounded so political, just like our dear politicians?

Wendz
#28 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 11:50:00 AM
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masukuma wrote:
wont most of you be pew warming this sunday or the next?


@masukuma

Pray, what is wrong with any Christian following Rev Njoya or Gitari and his call to pass the new constitution? Arent they men of God or did they stop when they retired? And also other churches that came out and supported the constitution?

And how are those who voted NO more Christians than those who voted YES? What tolerance would we pick from this comment? Or is it a case of self-righteousness?
slammers
#29 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 11:58:14 AM
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it is our right as the faithful not to make the transition difficult. am happy that some of them have accepted defeat and are asking for our prayers during this trying times
AmHere
#30 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 12:07:12 PM
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1 Samuel 8

" 6 But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us," this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD.
7 And the LORD told him: "Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.
8 As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you.
9 Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do."

I am not saying that the people who voted Yes are necessarily wrong or evil. Just responding to your question that the voice of the people is not always the voice of the Christian's God.
Pastor M
#31 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 12:13:03 PM
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What is the big deal Now the Katiba has passed..briefly lets look what the Church has done (I m Proud of the Church steadness in the whole process)
1)The Church saw errors which were contrary to the word of God (bible) in the Katiba......
2)The Church choose to highlight the issue with the gova (of which as per everyone expections church was supposed to be quite)but chooses to highlights the flaws to Gova and Kenyans the .......
3)Gova ignores the issues.......
4)Church tells people to vote against the Katiba.....
5)Quarter maybe agrees with the church....
6)The laws passes as kenyans really likes to listen to their conscience....
7)Life Goes on kenyans continue to worship others drop out of churches (christian worship will be harder),medical officers continue to kill the unborn when mothers life is in 'danger' ....
8)Consequences comes economically,spiritually,socially,morals etc to be felt either (good-my prayers) or (bad) of which it will be seeing by everyone maybe tomorrow,next year,next decade or next century.
NB The church Conscious before their God is clean.(period)
Wa_ithaka
#32 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 12:18:55 PM
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pastor M- YES even the many liars among them, I hope their conscience is clear
The Governor of Nyeri - 2017
muganda
#33 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 12:29:51 PM
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@Pastor M, few more corrections if you will; as per your points:

1) Some would argue nothing was contrary to the word of God (Kadhis court) except possible loopholes (on abortion). Some would say, up to the point of assisting and committing a frivolous abortion, nothing is contra yet.

3) Church documents according to Njoki Ndungu contained a list of 27 requests for insertion into Katiba. Everything was included in the draft, in the form requested, save for Kahdhi's courts and exceptions on abortion.

8)Your motives seem sincere; not possible to speak for motives of all other Yes/No proponents for that matter - only God can judge the hearts of men.

theman192000
#34 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 12:37:06 PM
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Looking at the history of Christianity, one cannot fail to notice that although Jesus Christ was one, there exist several branches of Christianity. Even several versions of the bible are in existence.

It therefore should not come as any surprise that the church chose to interpret clauses of the proposed constitution in a different manner.

Going forward, we must acknowledge and separate Christianity from the institutions of Christianity. While the teachings of Christ will remain the same, the institutions of Christianity will continue to evolve but will still remain relevant for the foreseeable future.
masukuma
#35 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 12:43:19 PM
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the Church is a road sign not a driver. it just says "Trouble Ahead" , it does not drive you in the opposite direction.
All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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#36 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 12:51:09 PM
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I agree with Pastor M & Masukuma, the church did give the warning.. That was their role.

We will have to live with what comes of it now.
All in all, as rightfully put earlier, God is the judge of men's hearts...
....above all, to stand.
muganda
#37 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 12:53:26 PM
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Applause Applause Applause
theman192000 wrote:
Going forward, we must acknowledge and separate Christianity from the institutions of Christianity. While the teachings of Christ will remain the same, the institutions of Christianity will continue to evolve but will still remain relevant for the foreseeable future.

masukuma wrote:
the Church is a road sign not a driver. it just says "Trouble Ahead" , it does not drive you in the opposite direction.


Didn't want to say more but just had to applaud the last two contributions.

It's in the nature of democracy that the minority must have their Say, but the majority must have their Way PLO Lumumba

kadonye
#38 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 12:54:13 PM
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I don't think the clergy are in a fix.They stood by what they thought was right.

I believe they were sincere.They should now start collecting signatures for amendments and convincing us why we need them.

But I don't see myself opposing kadhi courts
What a wicked man I am!The things I want to do,I don't do.The things I don't want to do I find myself doing
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#39 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 1:00:36 PM
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Am glad there was strong opposition to the Proposed Constitution. We were therefore able to debate the problematic issues in the PC rather than simply accept a document handed down by the political class. The debates are not over and the points put across will come in handy in the process of crafting and enacting the myriad implementation laws that the PC envisages.
Mtublack
#40 Posted : Thursday, August 05, 2010 1:29:02 PM
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good or Bad i dont known but one thing is true about the church after the refredum is that, The political class know that they can go against the church opinion on issues touch the society and win the masses approval
Some you win some you lose
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