People often say what’s the harm of religion? It helps people do good things, and brings a lot more people comfort and meaning to their lives. However, juxtapose it with it’s harmful parts, such as this appalling story you’re about to read; and you see it’s just not worth it.

You see, the problem is the one thing that lies at the centre of every religion- faith. Once you suspend reason and take that first step to believe in sky fairies, everything is possible. Then a pastor can tell you grass or of a piece of cloth is food, and you’ll happily gobble it down.

A South African pastor, one Prophet Penuel of the End Time Disciples Ministries, is kind of notorious for doing the above. He prays over pieces of cloth, wrapping paper, or someone’s hair, and then tells his congregation that it is food. People then come forward, eat, and proclaim the hair or cloth tastes like Macaroni and Cheese.

I kid you not, it’s broken down in the video accompanying this piece. He also loves pulling what I call the ‘Bishop Obinim’, where he steps on his congregants as part of his deliverance process.

Human beings have the capacity to be brilliant or stupid, but some people take the stupidity portion to whole new levels. Half the antics this guy pulls should land him in jail, but because he’s a supposed Man of God he gets a pass, and people even give him their money every damn weekend!

Any phenomenon that can get otherwise properly function people and turn them into idiots, is harmful to the human intellect. I don’t see how anyone sees all these (and remember this case is by no means unique) and can still proclaim that religion causes no harm.

And he even has a Facebook page where he proudly displays all these stupid antics of his- the world has gone mad.

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