I am a terrible choleric, something that am trying to fight. I will rearrange spoons, mop the house twice and even recheck if the doors are locked. You can call it obsessive compulsive disorder; I call it being thoroughly excellent; something that has got me in trouble once or twice. But I have had to learn how to be tolerant and accept how people do things, no matter how my brain wants to go crazy and my hands want to redo everything.

So where am I heading with this? Well I want to talk about atheists or the little bit I know about them. Atheists are believers of no God. And the ones in Kenya seem to be aiming for the Guinness Book of Records by eliminating the name of God in the national anthem.

Now first and foremost. The national anthem is not a pop song. It is a national symbol; an identity. When our athletes do the kind of thing they did in Amsterdam, we do not sing “dandia kama mat”. The world honors us by playing our identity.

Secondly, the national anthem is sung by Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, traditionalists and Christians who reside in the Kenyan nation.

Kenya is a sovereign nation and therefore no one can dictate to Kenya anything otherwise. Not even careless speeches at funerals will be entertained.

It does not take rocket science to know that atheists in Kenya are simply targeting Christianity forgetting that Kenya is home to diverse cultures and religions.

The national anthem says, oh God of all creation, in the mind of a Muslim, it is oh Allah of all creation, or for a traditionalist from Maa land it is oh Enkai of all creation, for a Christian it is, oh Jehovah of all creation.

Frank Schaeffer, the atheist who believes in God says “Many Muslims, Jews, Hindus and Christians inherited their faith because of where they were born. If you are an atheist, you hold those beliefs because of a book or two you read, or who your parents were and the century in which you were born.

Don’t delude yourself: There are no ultimate reasons for anything, just circumstances.”

So as an atheist, don’t kid yourself that you are enlightened than the rest of us who believe in the existence of the supernatural. We all believe we breathe in oxygen yet we don’t see it.  And atheism is a western idea so please there is no difference between new recruited atheists and someone who just discovered the Puma creepers. We are all excited and want people to see us and know we exist but we need to make the loudest noise. Not necessary noise, just noise to get the attention of the right people.

During the struggle for independence, the fathers of this nation had one dream, to get rid of the white man and to unite the black people. They got composers who got a song from Pokomo land; a lullaby tune to sing the colonial pain away and unite us in love. Mzee Jomo Kenyatta went ahead to introduce the slogan Harambee, an Indian praise to a Hindu deity but this same slogan has seen schools and hospitals built.

Question is, if tears roll down a Kenyan athletes cheeks when they win gold for the love of a nation and every other Kenyan back home glued to the TV is busting with love, what is an atheist full of? Please do not confuse love for country with love for God. Kenya is a land of freedom and we have the freedom to be identified and love. We still believe in peace, love and unity. Whoever invented atheism also loved their country and submitted to its authority. Go play religion elsewhere since atheism is a system of belief that God {which God exactly) does not exist. The National Anthem is exactly that, an anthem not a hymn.

  Am wondering if I could just imagine and decide atheists don't exist. That is for another day.