(standing) checking voting proceedings at St Clement’s Polling station
during the Mansa Central by-election
The Christian Churches Monitoring Group (CCMG) says there is need for the country to continue holding its place as a haven of peace in the region by having a peaceful transition.
Speaking when he launched CCMG a coalition of Faith Based Organisations which have come together to monitor the forth coming elections Fr. Lungu who spoke on behalf of other Faith Based Organizations said there is need for a peaceful democratic transition and that citizens have a duty to uphold the country’s legacy of peace for which Zambia is acclaimed for world over.
Fr. Lungu said it is for the same reason (mentioned above) that they (FBOs)feel duty bound to ensure that they fully participate in the electoral process and encourage their followers as well as the public to peacefully participate in the electoral process.
He explained that CCMG is preparing a robust Parallel Vote Tabulation system to be used as a tool for monitoring the integrity of the election results during and after the counting process.
He said their PVT will be done by well trained monitors at designated polling stations who will send official results announced at polling stations to the CCMG results collection centre.
Fr. Lungu observed that elections are not determined by the outcome of the results but events leading up to the polling day hence his organisation will monitor the entire process so as to check of any tendencies that endanger the fairness, credibility and integrity of elections.
And Fr. Lungu has appealed to Government to provide an impartial environment that will allow for the free will of the people to prevail.
He said public institutions should save the people impartially and not be dragged into supporting particular candidates to disadvantage others.
He condemned reports of government officials storming ZNBC saying ” we abhor reports of government officials going to government owned institutions like ZNBC to intimidate and threaten workers who doing their professional jobs.”
To the political parties he requested them to respect other people’s rights to organize and participate saying that political acrimony is alien to good democratic culture.
As for the youths, the clergy man advised them to mobilize and vote for their desired candidate and that they should not succumb to being used as instruments of violence by anybody or any political party.
He said instead of being used as tools of political violence youths should ask candidates what plans they have for them.
Meanwhile, Fr. Lungu has called on the media to avoid being used as a medium for insults but rather avail the public with quality information that will help them make informed decisions.
The consortium consist of Council of Churches in Zambia, Evangelical Fellowship in Zambia, Zambia Episcopal Conference and the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection.
All the best hope you have skills of outmaneuvering bakamucheka.
Iam a pealing to all Zambians and HH to report to USA and UK government that they help Zambia hold a clean election.What is happening at Mulungushi right now is dangerous .PF is not in a position of giving Zambia a good and peacefull election.Zambians be brave to fight with these thugs that has invaded Zambia.There is total trouble at Mulungushi university right now no order thugs have taken over the premises and police are compromised.zambia is not safe under scott.
75% of America is Christian.
75% of prisoners are Christian.
10% of America is Atheist.
00.2% of prisoners are Atheist.
– Federal Bureau of Prisons, 1997
Which Fr Lungu now? I’m sure he is not a Catholic priest. Fr Lungu supporting Lungu. We cannot be fooled again. Never! You will both go back to Malawi Fr. Tribalism is a natural phenomenal.
Debating about God and Religion is not a good idea.
Let’s just debate politics and leave Religion out.
2015 and Beyond Vote PF
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Come with all your PVT so that you can monitor how well the PF will rise above the scum opposition with votes. Since when did these hungry churchlings develop so much political interest? Nevers and Pule set such a bad presedence. Shame what hunger can do to a pulpit pauper.
PF is dead in Zambia. Us living in Zambia we understand what is going on the ground. Sorry for the part had a lot of faith to just die like that.
@Kudos in political quagmire denial!What a dilemma.Now the acronym PF is synonymous to LIARS THIEVES in Zambian Societies.I really feel pit for these pathetic perpetual failures for they can not foresee their collapsing & sinking party. Bye Kudos,Mushota,Saulos & 2020vision.
Bane January 20 is just around the corner….for those that are saying PF is dead will have a rude awakening. ….all the weak atoms are being displaced in the PF and Miles Sampa is the latest casualty.
VOTE FOR PF
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This is very much welcome. Elections should be transparent and fair to reflect the majorities wishes. The churches should be commended for their part in a transparent election process. BRAVO!!
Guy Scott is the future; black people cannot run a country; give us your companies; we shall hire u; pay u peanuts and make a killing of a profit when exporting
And you are black yourself. ..
You should be ashamed of yourself. …pretending to be white behind a keyboard. ..
Iyo mwandi. …
Today I have suspended my drinking and devoting time to pray for Zambia. This gathering at Mulungushi Rock of the PF’s most brainless and violent thugs playing at democracy is giving me heart palpitations. I fear they just might plunge the country in a violent conflagration of bloodshed. The relative peace the nation has enjoyed could be shattered today. These punks have no idea what democracy is about. They are armed. Is this a conducive atmosphere in which to hold an election? I don’t think so.
What is the basic purpose of religion?
Religion is designed to focus the people’s attention and energy on a single, unchanging, uncompromising and invisible supreme being who allegedly created an inferior human race just for some extra companionship and love for himself and then supposedly foisted a set of oppressive and in some cases arbitrary rules on them, which if broken would be met with unimaginable punishment.
This keeps the followers in a continuing state of fear and compliance.
They are afraid to question the intentions of this invisible being and they are afraid of even expressing their own individuality in many cases. Christians and others are taught that they have virtually no power to do anything except pray, worship and do good deeds.
They are taught to practice self denial and are told that their own will is totally irrelevant. Religious followers believe that they are yielding their will over to a benevolent cosmic individual who has single-handedly created the whole universe and has their best interests at heart when in fact they are handing over their will and freedoms to hidden groups of religious elites for the elites own personal gains.
It appears that religion must constantly degrade and humiliate its followers in order to glorify and elevate its god. Unfortunately many people appear eager to give away their power to authority and seem to have a need and even a desire to be ruled and disciplined by it.
Worshipping gods is futile and is nothing more than an ancient primitive custom practiced by weak minded and superstitious people. It has no place in the 21st century. The reason we have life in this world is to experience life in this world, not to spend our entire lives studying an old book, looking up to the sky and worshipping an invisible ruler in another realm.
The main method by which Christians in particular are trapped and deceived is with the messiah or saviour story. This is linked to the ‘original sin’ story which is designed to impose a large amount of guilt onto the whole of humanity. The believers are then so grateful that they have been saved by the son of God nearly 2000 years before they were born that in some cases they abandon all reason, logic and good judgment…
….to obey and worship this god and his son.
Anyone who believes this story is indeed lost because to believe that a god would send his only son to help us, only to see his son get tortured and murdered, and then instead of unleashing all his wrath, simply absolve us from all crimes past and present, is pure madness to say the least.
Where is the lesson for us in that? What has been achieved? There is no lesson or purpose because it’s all about mass psychological enslavement and disempowerment.
The so called god that we are expected to worship is undoubtedly just a dictator strawman concocted by the religious elites for the purpose of controlling the masses…
…..If there is a prime creator in this universe then it is unlikely that he would interfere and impose on us by foisting his arbitrary laws, let alone need and demand our frivolous worship and blind obedience. Neither of those things requires any level of mental aptitude or creativity. The intelligence and skills that’s been given to many has gone totally to waste.
Many have lowered themselves to the pointless practice of hero worship.
CHRISTIANS: GOOD PEOPLE OR UNWARY TOOLS FOR EVIL?
Are religious followers including Christians “all serving” (good) or “self serving” (bad) individuals?
Christians believe they are good, however :
– They serve only their God who is king and anyone who opposes their doctrine about him is automatically damned. No questions asked.
– The heaven carrot is dangled in front of them by their religion so they do what ever it takes to get there. That is not “service to all” because many are only good so they can get their big rewards and avoid hell.
– They want others to go to heaven too but their religion has robbed them of their free will by instilling fear
and telling them that their will is irrelevant. They then go out and violate other people’s free will as well by…
……preaching their dogma and vilifying (and even killing) them if they don’t comply. They believe that anyone who does not obey their god’s rules is not worthy and are therefore classed below them. That is prejudice and bigotry. They pass judgment in the name of their god on those who do not accept their fear based tenets. They don’t understand that you cannot judge someone if you don’t know all their circumstances and reasons and no one can possibly know everything about what led to aparticular person’s actions or what their true thoughts or intentions were.
– They preach disempowerment and ignorance which leads people into deception where they often become
accessories to evil. Evil in many cases uses ignorant and dumbed-down individuals to do its work.
Religion constantly warns its followers to avoid hell but at the same time is ambiguous about exactly what one has to do to get to hell or heaven. This can only lead to fear, confusion and division among the population. Also each religion says totally different things which then causes even more confusion and conflict. The same goes for many other concepts which religion professes to know about.
Christians are constantly tempted with heaven and threatened with hell and then they’re told that they have a choice – a “free choice” in fact (and also “free will” by the way (???)). This choice can be compared to the choice that a robber gives his victim – “your money or your life”. Christians are so brainwashed that they cannot see that this is not a choice but an ultimatum, which…
The moment you put religion in front of everything else you are certainly doomed for failure. …Zambia is a heaven of peace but masters of deceit and corruption!
Wake up people and read more about self; Christianity and this fictitious character Jesus are utterly irrelevant to you….wake up my people wake up!!
Nice one Jay jay!!!
Some Christians will argue that Jesus was God’s only ‘begotten’ son – in other words the only spiritual/human hybrid. But we all have God’s spirit breathed into us which makes us all spiritual/human hybrids, so why are the rest of us barred from ascending? Christians say it’s because Jesus ‘is’ exclusively God. The truth is we are all equal parts of God, except the religious elites hope that we never find that out.
Many religions say that only a select few will make it to heaven and be with God. This is called exclusivism or elitism and is definitely not healthy for a society. It seems clear that the god of the bible, if he exists, is a tyrant and not the creator of all that is.
While a person continues to be a fundamentalist Christian, he/she can never evolve or ascend.
SIN: EVIL OR JUST ANOTHER SCARY WORD?
What is sin?
Sin is a word made up by religion to define a transgression or disobedience against its god’s laws.
Many Christians point out that the word’s exact translation means ‘miss the mark’, which wouldn’t make any sense because the bible also says that the price of sin is death. Why would a creator torture and kill its creations just for missing the mark?
Sin is not inherently evil. It’s just the inadvertent breaking of one or more of a particular deity’s rules.
Religious people believe that the force that created us is an individual who has human-like feelings that can be hurt by the things we say, do or even think while we’re in this physical world. They don’t realize that only egos can be offended. Obviously the Christian…
Believers believe that early man managed to somehow figure out exactly what this deity’s likes, dislikes and will are through some visions, dreams and disembodied voices, and they believe that if we don’t do exactly what he wants then he waits until we’re dead and then he severely punishes us for putting a dent in his precious plans to gain some extra love and companionship for himself. It seems that this god is rather selfish as well as egotistical.
Why does a wonderful and omnipotent creator need extra love and companionship all of a sudden after being happy for eons and eons? Why if he has so much time on his hands did he feel he had to whip up the world in just six days? Why not instead make it all develop naturally and at its own pace? What was the big hurry?
Because all of his angels abandoned him maybe?
That would be no surprise.
A deity who can only get people to love him by making them really dumb (putting them into human form) cannot be a wonderful deity in anyone’s language, and a deity who can only forgive people by having his only son brutally mutilated and murdered, not to mention making billions of ordinary humans suffer and die over thousands of years, can only be described as profoundly psychotic and deranged.
And Christians are so indoctrinated that they believe that this is love just because the bible says it is. Anyone who can still think clearly can plainly see that Christianity is totally insane and that the Christian god strawman is himself the very definition of sin.
We are at war with the devil and the devil cannot win
2015 and beyond Vote PF
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