Did You Get that Email?

Lies, lies, and more lies. Seems like each time I get a forwarded email it is just packed with untruth after untruth. Those of you who care about the truth know what I am talking about, the rest of you may be scratching you head (or other body part) trying to remember the last time you read something that was not true.

You may have received an email about missionaries in Kenya named Loren and Celeste Davis. Apparently they made some comments about Barack Obama being a sleeper terrorist or something like that. A good amount of them have arrived in my inbox, perhaps because people are concerned about us or something since we live in Kenya.

I am not going to refute everything they say, though if everything they say is not a lie it is at least said in the wrong context. The most recent one I received had an interesting line in it. It mentioned how during the recent election related violence in Kenya many churches were burned but not a single mosque.

What? Is that supposed to prove something? It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out why churches were burned and not mosques. Most all of the violence was perpetrated by Christians, or at least people who have been born again.

Here in Nakuru churches are divided by ethnicity, they were before the election turmoil, but they are more than ever divided now. We have whole estates (neighborhoods) that are divided by tribe. These same people that are refusing to live next to someone who speaks a different language or at least has a different name, attend Christian religious meetings on Sundays without fail. If you ask them if they are Christian they will not hesitate to say that Jesus Christ is their personal savior and Lord. Must be a different Jesus then the one I know.

In my life I have met a good number of religious fanatics. Not a single one of them was Muslim, in fact all the fanatics I know are Christian. Before you ask, yes I do know a good number of Muslims.

Just because Loren Davis claims to speak for God does not mean he does. I mean come on he is the same guy who said the American flag was Satanic. (O.K. what he actually said was using the image of a star is Satanic. Which would make the American flag Satanic.) Should also be noted that just because he uses the title missionary and has wasted lots of money in Kenya on meetings, does not make him the spokesperson for the rest of us missionaries living here in Kenya.

I say we take a stand for what is true and stop forwarding emails around that are anything but true, and if you fear a black man being president then vote for someone else.

 

Johnny Brooks

Missionary to Nakuru, Kenya. Co-founder of A Future and a Hope, a home for girls.

Comments

[James]

Speaking of Barak Obama, even though I don't intend to vote for him as of now I am reading his book "The Audacity of Hope" in order to get an idea of where he's coming from, who he is, and where he intends to go. If the book is an accurate depiction then he's not "Dr. Evil" after all and has lots of great ideas, overall.

[Megan]

I get that kind of email all the time. God==GOP is annoying enough by itself... But regardless of political leanings, the gross misinformation in this type of message is ridiculous, and it's downright shameful IMO that people claiming the name of Christ pass this gossip-garbage on. And don't even get me started on how my violently anti Christian get their jaw-jacking fueled when they see that cruft landing in inboxes from "Good Christian People".

Honestly, I've had so much unbelievable idiotic junk passed on re Obama from various corners that I'm starting to wonder if it's just a 'polite' cover for racism.

[Megan]

... that was 'violently anti-Christian co workers'. Me no type so gud.

[concernedkenyan]

. . ."it's just a 'polite' cover for racism." - My thoughts exactly.