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| Francis Mwongela |
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FATHER KILLER: WHAT MORALS ARE OUR PARENTS TEACHING US?
I
have prepared several write ups on the social blogs principally on my face book
profile ranging from politics, morality, spirituality and social life as well
as philosophy. These receive comments and raise attentions for some people take
me as controversial. Some are far fetched and others are as a result of unawareness
or malevolence. However, as a journalist and trained communicator, I have
always made positive rejoinders and appreciated the criticism. Notable of these
extensive notes I write, are the prolife write ups and Mother Teresa quotes
concerning abortions and the use of contraceptives. This has really attracted
ladies to sometimes tell me off and dismiss me as a young man who has no thought
about the world we are living in today.
Majority
have taken it positively and even confided in me. However, my position has not
changed and the odds of it changing are unfounded. I still clasp that abortion
is murder under whatever circumstances or justifications given by the laws
written by men and women or by the medics.
What
shocked me a few months in the past after I posted a note ‘Small world; a case against contraceptives’, I received regular
comments. Some were scornful while others agreed with my lash and takings on
the contraceptives and the effects they do have on the consumers of such
commodities who are especially ladies. However, a lady from one of the
Universities in Kenya I guess dropped me a shocking message in my inbox which
was firm to believe. I quote the message, “hi
Francis, there is a link you shared sometimes back about abortion. T was very
touchy if you can access it again share with me. There s a friend of myn who
want to do an abortion. I think it might as well help change her mind. Thanks
in advance.”
I
jubilantly and prayerfully shared the link once again to save a life and
promised if need be I could come on board to do save the life. I even offered
to be given the infant and would help in adoption if at all the lady in question
does not want to see the kid.
The
two ladies got my message and they shared the information. I was happily
informed that the lady has changed her mind due to the morality of the abortion
question as I brought it out in my document.
Great
shock astounded me this week on Thursday in the evening when I received a
message from this lady, “hi, haki thanks
for those items. They were really encouraging. I talked to her and at first she
changed her mind but unfortunately the guy went missing and switched phone off.
Its her dad who took her to do the
crime! Anyway I tried my best and got nothing to regret 4 it. Nyc moms.”
On
receipt of the message, this was one of my darkest moments in life! Are parents
teaching us the right things? Why on earth should a father take her daughter to
procure an abortion?
The
society we live in doesn’t require such villains to execute crime and they get
away unpunished. We need to get our morals right. I strongly believe that if
anything is to have impact in our society, it must come from the family set up.
What do you expect to come of a girl who was taught to kill her own child by
her own father? What will deter her from killing me and you on the slightest
provocation? What about a father who kills his own grandchild? What about a father
who commits his funds to kill and not to feed or educate the society? Are the
youth left to make decisions or parents are still dictating?
The
corruption we are crying about everyday with all fingers pointed at the politicians’
side starts from our families. What pains the largest part is where those who
are expected to be leaders and protagonists of morality change to become wolves
and the worst of the antagonists that the society needs to root out from the
very beginnings. The tale of Sodom and Gomorrah then is rife in our society.
I
have almost started losing faith in the generation of old men. Some of their
thinking and actions are a shame to their age. Common sense does not read aloud
otherwise. If a father can take her daughter to procure an abortion; to kill,
what makes you think that this father does not engage in incest and other
sexual malpractices with every Tom, Dick and Hurry? These are the caliber of
men who mislead young college students who are fit to be their grandchildren
leave alone them being their daughters.
Maybe
this is one case in a million of the kind of society that we have at hand. I
remember one time having a word with a renown Prof. Wanjohi, the director of Human
life international Kenya(www.hlikenya.org)
, on the kind of grotesque things that humanity is getting involved in. His response
was a simple quotation from the bible that, “My people die for lack of knowledge”.
But I fail to understand how a father with a daughter fit and ready too become
a mother doesn’t know that abortion is murder and a simple fact that human life
starts at conception!
I
would not be shocked that reasons the dad used to justify abortion to this daughter
ranged from education and others. I have not seen where a person has been
denied education because she is a mother or he is a father.
If
at all we need to be on the track to have the right morals for the society, the
parents must be trustworthy and build the confidences of their children.
Without that, we are headed for a doomsday. The first teacher, they say that it
is the parent. After all if the parents do not teach morals, whom do they
expect will do so? If they don’t, I don’t see why they should cry when their
sons and daughters get spoilt. Furthermore, to what extent are we becoming our
own enemies in the guise of the dot com generation and the nonsense of
generation Y whose thinking I tend to suppose is illogical and lacking
intellectual rationale? "Each
child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to
deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow"... - John Powell, S.J.,
Professor of Theology
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