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Why men (yes, on earth) want saintly women

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A while back  in Nyeri, Sister Nyaatha is being beatified and beautified into a Catholic saint. God likes saints, and men like saintly women. That is all there is to it - so I donno why women, via social media, were making so much brouhaha (ah, I love that word, brouhaha) about this feature that outlined the saintly attributes in women that men like that will make your home a heaven for your man, ahem, if not quite your haven.

St Paul said women should be submissive to their men. Can’t you read the Scripture, and as we used to say in the good old days of Promulgation about the Katiba: ‘jisomee, jieleweshe, na jitolee huo ujinga kwa kichwa’? If a lady wants to defy St Paul, that’s fine.

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