Church and state: When religion turns into a worldly tool

 

First Lady Rachael Ruto, President William Ruto, Deputy president Rigathi Gachagua and his wife Dorcas pray during Ruto’s Inauguration as the 5th President of Kenya at Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi on September 13, 2022. [File, Standard]

The emerging falling out between segments of the Church in the Mt Kenya region and the Kenya Kwanza regime casts the priestly class in the delicate crosshairs of a fraternity that has steadily degenerated into an astute political tool driven by powerful worldly appetites. 

It is the tale of an entity that has steadily drifted from the traditional Christian Gospel and orthodoxy, to place itself at the service of profane earthly political and commercial needs on the one hand. On the flip side are the selfish goals of a money-hungry shepherding fraternity. Accordingly, the modern African clergyman passes for a profane worldly individual, caked in a cloak of spurious piety. His external...