Maintain respect of worship
EDITOR — I have seen people chiding members of a certain religious outfit for their choice to follow a seeding system where people give money to Christ looking for multiplication of their fruit.
Many armchair theologians have shown face since the man of God communicated the plans God has for his people.
Truth is, heavenly declarations are not too easy to comprehend. If God behaved exactly in a way humans and mortals expect him to, how would he then be God.
In the spirit of respect and tolerance, people should ignore things that do not concern them.
Playing religious custodians trying to tell other adults what to believe or not is not exactly something one would expect from an enlightened country like Zimbabwe. While it seems fashionable for people to senselessly criticise churches and what they do, there should be respect of choice and decisions.
Referring to congregants of a church with derogatory words because they think differently surely is not a sign of respect.
I would like to believe that most people find their way to churches and they sign up out of their own will. Constantly calling them out for their choice defeats the whole co-existence principle.
It gets tiring when people try to gain popularity on social media by denigrating those who belong to certain churches, if it was just pure expression of opinion that would not have been a problem.
The criticism is usually coupled with abusive words as well.
My plea for rationale dialogue also goes to the believers who find themselves responding to criticisms of their ministries on the internet or in physical spaces.
Retaliating with unmentionables and curses is also equal to the initial abuse, it is ungodly to fight fire with fire.
Instead of springing to insult people over their opinions, attempts can be made to explain to them how the whole religious system works and hope they understand.
At the end of the day we need to be free to engage in our religious activities freely, same way people can express themselves freely. Farayi Maenga, Belvedere.