How The Belief in God Promotes Poverty

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I have engaged with many believers of the bible and noted that many of them believe that the food, shelter, clothes, jobs and many other things come from their god, they dont credit what they get from the work of their hands or products of being at the right time and at the right place. Africans like to have many kids, and they give this honor to God, they dont think that kids come as a result of sex independent of a mystical being.

Many Africans therefore believe that the number of kids they get is based on the decision of their god, they therefore conclude that what the kids will eat and wear has already been arranged by their god. I find this quite unfortunate, that a poor family will go ahead and have 10 kids, these kids would have to go through grinding poverty, they will wear tatters, will have no shoes for their feet and worse still will eat little food with little nutrition. A poor Kenyan child will have tea and mandazi for breakfast, he will skip lunch at times, and in the evening will have the monotonous ugali and sukuma.

Far away in a mostly atheist country, lets say Netherlands, a large number of the people are educated and understand the importance of family planning. A child from this country would have good healthcare and diet. Proper clothing would be as easy as batting an eyelid. In other words, this child is highly likely to grow up happy.

Its depressing to see religion tear sense from the reasoning of a society. A Christian sect in Kenya called the Akorino believe that family planning is the idea of the devil and that they should allow their god to bless their acts of sex with as many or as few children as he wants. They borrow this idea from the biblical story of Leah and Rachael where God gave Rachael 2 children and Leah 12 children.The adherents of this sect end up causing pain and discomfort for other human beings as the many children they get hardly get proper attention.

African people will go ahead and have many children not considering the dwindling economies, they will not look at the growth of slums, nor at the pathetic living conditions to inform their baby making decisions. And when the kids grow up after experiencing the harrows of malnutrition and lack, they will praise their god, thanking him for provision.



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  1. NjorogelynneAugust 25, 2020 at 3:52 AM

    Why is the akorino culture so close to my heart😂😂😂😂akorino have 8+children living in a mabati house and still want others.

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  2. AOdenyAugust 25, 2020 at 4:44 AM

    So insightful.

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