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The National Anthem is not a Hymn

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.

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