{"id":5226,"date":"2020-07-03T05:24:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T05:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2020-07-03T05:28:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T05:28:11","slug":"5226","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=5226","title":{"rendered":"Atheists president Harrison Mumia clash with pastors over church re-opening."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Harrison Mumia, President, Atheists in Kenya Society has urged the government not to reopen churches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As Atheists in Kenya, we did a survey &amp; Kenyans are happy with Sunday silence. Residential areas had a lot of noise from church speakers. Churches should be digitized, we forget about these physical churches &#8221; Mumia said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There has been a raging debate on whether to open churches or not.<br>Kenyans have given mixed views even as churches and schools remain closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#<strong> &#8220;Uhuru&#8217;s prayer at statehouse never worked&#8221;Mumia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8221; There was a prayer day organized by the President, to pray for the country &amp; COVID-19 &amp; the numbers are not going down. The God they pray to, should be flexible to accommodate some of these technologies&#8221; Mumia added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However Man Kush, Pastor &amp; Comedian belkeves that Worship places should be open, &#8221; I do not understand why they are closed. The Govt. is underestimating the churches, especially since restaurants are open&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His fellow pastor supported the reopening of churches and said.<br>Pastor T Mwangi had this to say<br>&#8220;There\u2019s no scientific report to justify churches are hotspots, every gathering is a hotspot. Politicians are gathering like there is no COVID-19. Churches do not gather all day; markets are open all day. Once regulations are provided, we will adhere&#8221; Pastor T Mwangi opined<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrison Mumia, President, Atheists in Kenya Society has urged the government not to reopen churches. &#8220;As Atheists in Kenya, we did a survey &amp; Kenyans are happy with Sunday silence. Residential areas had a lot of noise from church speakers. Churches should be digitized, we forget about these physical churches &#8221; Mumia said. There has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5230,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions\/5230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}