DO PEOPLE WITH KNOWLEDGE BECOME AUTOMATIC REBELS?
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Some things have been bothering me. In the 2000, I toyed with the idea of becoming a Christian missionary. But I could not stand the strict religious laws and their observations. I kept saying I wanted to study a PhD level to become a doctor. I did not like the title Professor although my friend Robert Gichuhi adamantly kept calling me a ” Professor” because of my association with books.
We were subjected to prayers after prayers. We were also barred from watching or listening to secular movies, music and even secular news [national news]. Our world was supposed to rotate around spiritual things. One day, my Director who seemed not happy with the urge I had for books, gave me the following warning. ” Do not study high you will oppose God!”. I was not happy with the statement because I developed the notion that these people had got a bad intention for me and wanted to keep me down.
I did not protest or debate or question the revered pastor who himself had a master degree in religious studies. He was someone highly educated and could not be questioned. Advising me not to go for higher studies when he had a master’s degree gave me a reason to question his statement. “Why me, when he has gone to that level?” Alternatively, “does it mean only illiterate or uninformed people can serve God?”
“Then, there is a problem.” I concluded. ” If God is truly there, why would my perspective change with education?” Those were questions that kept haunting me alone. I resolved to study and find out the truth for myself. Recently, a young cousin, who had just completed his B.A. degree made a decision to continue with his graduate studies.
However, a GOSS Minister told him,” you should not study master when you are young, you will be forced to oppose the Government.” These two statements have converged in my mind. They have created a new world for me. I now understand why majority of our informed people are being condemned or being called “rebels”.
The world is being kept deliberately in ignorance for few to ride on its back. Ignorance is preferable to knowledge, to be born with a clean-slate head and to be buried knowing nothing.
All human institutions are not up to the Truth.
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