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Let the referendum be about how to deal with rampant graft

The National Prayer Breakfast is an abomination. It should be renamed the Annual Hypocrisy Ritual. The political class plunder, incite, kill and divide the nation for 364 days and then praise the Lord over a hefty breakfast. I can’t bear to watch it; I might vomit – not on my shoes but on the bare feet of the millions who can’t afford a decent meal for their families. It is even more disgusting to think that the sumptuous meal was probably paid for by borrowed money.

Let them feast but for God’s sake leave religion out of it. It is bad enough that these same villains invade and desecrate churches every weekend with their tainted loot and divisive politics, but to organise their own religious services and invite foreign guests guilty of genocide is sacrilegious.

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