PASTORS NEVER LOVED US

It doesn’t surprise me that a pastor like Andre Olivier of the famous Rivers Church in Johannesburg has uttered remarks widely perceived as racist to his multiracial congregation, where he implied blacks were disadvantaged because they are lazy and whites privileged because they work hard.
I don’t have to be Pastor Jeremiah’s ex-wife to testify that pastors generally never loved us.

Pastors and church members have increasingly found themselves in the list of repeat human rights offenders in my short life and quite frankly, their spiritual healer counterparts, the sangomas seem to be more deserving of my resources including time and money.

 There’s no escaping Christianity and its teachings and activities when you grow up in Swaziland–almost every other corner houses a church. There was certainly no escaping Christianity in my mother’s household where the teachings were drilled into my skull ever since I could say the word ‘Make’.

The religion has useful teachings, no doubt.
The biggest problem for me most times is the people who claim to uphold this higher level of knowledge. Hypocrites! Of the highest order!
Sure, we are each hypocrites in our own way but I struggle with church things because they hardly ever mirror the true reflection of society.

I remember in 2009 when I consciously started getting myself into the church - I was unemployed after quitting my TV job at the SABC (because hurricanes like Hlaudi Motsoeneng must be forecasted years before they happen). I was quite amped about being in a new space and learning new things that were on the extreme end of what had become my routine lifestyle.
I participated in home cells (weekly semi-informal meetings with other Christians) where it was refreshing to engage new people on different perspectives of life.

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