The Capitol, the seat of the Liberian Legislature was on Tuesday a scene of Christian worship services. Over a thousand Christians descended on the capitol to petition their lawmakers to restore Liberia to its Christian Heritage.
After a long period of worship, Chairman of the Liberia Restoration to Christian Heritage committee Rev. Jomah Woiwor read a letter petition on behalf of the many who had gathered.
"We are assembled as a physical representation of the Liberian people to present to you, the legislature, and our collective will to consider our petition of constitutionally restoring Liberia to a Christian nation as provided by chapter X11 article 91 of the 1986 revised constitution."
Article 91 states, This Constitution may be amended whenever a proposal by either
(1) two thirds of the membership of both Houses of the Legislature or (2) a petition submitted to the Legislature, by not fewer than 10,000 citizens which receives the concurrence of two thirds of the membership of both Houses of the Legislature, is ratified by two thirds of the registered voters, voting in a referendum conducted by the Elections Commission not sooner than one year after the action of the Legislature.
Rev. Woiwor said the churches involved have gathered more than the required signatures of 10,000 to amend the constitution. "Today we make a historic petition of more than 700,000 Liberians from the 15 political subdivisions of Liberia."
After singing, dancing and prayers by the crowd of Christians, some lawmaker including Senator Jewell Howard Taylor(NPP, Bong County), Clarice Jah(Liberty Party, Margibi), Solomon George(CDC, Montserrado County and Gabriel Nyenkan(Unity Party) came out to receive the petition. The Lawmakers themselves were seen worshiping with the huge crowd as they bowed in prayer.
Standing before the members of the Legislature, the Man of God said the preamble of the founding constitution laid the foundation of Christian heritage."Africa acknowledging with devout gratitude, the goodness of God in granting to us the blessings of the Christian religion and political, religious and civil liberty, do, in order to secure these blessings for ourselves and our posterity, and to establish the justice, insure domestic peace, and promote the general welfare, hereby solemnly associate, and constitute ourselves a free, sovereign and independent state by the name the Republic of Liberia, and do ordain and establish this constitution for the governance of the same, he read.
"Moreover", he stressed, section 3 of the 1847 constitution states: "No sect of Christian shall have exclusive privileges or preferences over other sects". According to the petition this sentence was craftily changed to suit the secular agenda. However, he said the writers of the 1986 constitution cleverly removed the clause, 'no sect of Christian shall have exclusive' and replaced it with the controversial clause, 'no sect of religion shall have privileges'."
The petition emphasized that the two clauses are not the same." The concepts of sect of Christians and the sect of religion are not the same. We view this as a direct attack on our Christian Heritage. Any nation that divorces her history ceases to exist as that particular nation."
Rev. Woiwor said the Bible frowns on what the writers of the 1986 constitution did. The Bible, upon which Liberia was birthed, warns against removing the ancient landmarks, Proverb 22:28. In his conclusion the head of the Christian group said their action is a volcano that cannot be put off. 'If it goes to the referendum and the people say no then let God name be praise. But nobody should stand before it. This is a volcano, there is no fire break it that can cut it off. "
Speaking to reporters after the presentation of the petition Senator Taylor said all the Christians are trying to do is to put in place what the foundation already establishes. "You know in the days of old God gave Moses the Ten Commandments, it was based on that written document that the Israelites were held to account. So all we are trying to do is put in place what the foundation of our country was and we pray that God will touch the hearts of all Liberians to live in unity and peace."
Receiving the petition on behalf of the House of Representative, Gabriel Nyenken (Unity Party) there is nothing hard for God. "We are going to take this petition to the body. God to the angel to speak to Abraham and say, is here anything too hard for God?
For her part Senator Clarice Jah said: "God will arise and his enemies will be scattered." We ask God to rise, He will arise and his enemies will be scattered. This petition is not ending here. We are moving on it's the beginning. And this parade will lead us to the referendum, which will lead us to the constitutional act and Liberia will return."
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Fellow readers, I am not from Liberia but I am an African so, I feel I have a judiciary responsibility to Liberia. Besides, I know some friends who served to help to bring sanity to Liberia. Now, here we go again with this war-prone nation. Remember please that religious fanaticism brings trouble to countries. Look East towards the Middle_East and you will see what trouble means to a restless people.
I do not agree that religion causes trouble. The absence of a state religion causes trouble, and all we need to do is look around to see it. Our children kill each other, mothers kill their unborn children, the banks have no pity on us and no force to make them have pity and control their greed. A state must agree in its laws with its moral teachings. If the majority of the people wish the certain moral teachings of Christianity to penetrate their courtrooms and their hospitals and their schools, they have that right, and it will lead to greater happiness and security for them--and less protection for gross sinners who wish to abuse our society, cause sickness both physical and mental, and destroy the community.
We are trying to start just such a petition in the US. Liberian Christians--we are praying for your success!
Hi Liberian Christians,I want to inform you that before Liberia can become a Christian nation pls go first and take your daughters from Samoa and education.who are doing prostitution,and encourage marriage instead of boyfriends and girlfriends relationship,so called Christian women born five to six children with different fathers,yet you don't look at that then you want to be call Christian nationa.you lot to do yet before you can reach to your goal.
LIBERAI ITS INCORECT FOR YOU TO SAY THAT YOUR CHRISTINA TRADITONS IS WHAT YOU WANT TO GO BACK TO... FIRST YOU MUST STUDY YOUR VERY LONG VERY VERY ANCIEWNT AFRICAN HISTORY; THAT WHICH DOES NOT BEGIN IN LIBERIA... YOU MUST KNOW THAT MONOTHESEISM WAS THEBELIEF CUTLTURE TRADITION OF OUR FORE FATHERS.. WE BELIEVED THAT' ADAAM EVE WERE CREATED BY " THE ALLMIGHTY GOD" HUMANITY WAS THEN BORN. FROM SCIENCE WE KNOW THAT THERE WERE TWOS ETS OF PEOPLE THE BIBLE EXPLAISN TO US IN GENISIS THAT ADAAM AND EVE WEST EAST OF EDEN TO LIVE WITH OTHERS. HISTORY HAS SHOWN USNTHAT THERE WERE TWO DISTINCT AFRICANS THE AUSTRALOIDS ORF THE BLACK BLACK AUSTRA;LIANS THE SRI LANKANS THEN THERE WAS THE NUBIANS OR THE ADAMANITES WHO ALSO ARE BLACK PEOPLE SOME VERY BROWN PEOPLE. WE ARE THE TWO PEOPLE THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE GROWTH OF OTHER RACES OR SHADES OF COLOURS OF HJUMANITY WITH DIFFERENT LOOKS IDEOLOGIES!!!... THE WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE LAST DESCENDANTS OF THE NUBIANS WHO AS WE SEE TODAY CONTIUE TO PROCREATE CAUCAIONS PEOPLE ALBINOS AS THEY ARE CALLED DO NOT HAVE MELANINH WHICH IS A KJEY GENITIC MAKEUP OF THE BLACK RACE IT IS PART OF THIER DFNA GENTIC CODE... N WHITE PERSON ON THE PLANET HAS MELANIN AS THE GENITIC CODE MAKE UP... NJO MATTER HOW SMART THEY ARE WHITE PEOLE WILL NEVER EVER BE ABLE TO CREATE A A CHILD WITH MELANIN???????? THIS IS AN IMPOSIBLE TASK NOT TO BE ACVHIEVED!!!!... TWO VERY BLACK BLACK PEOPLE CAN PROCREATE AND HAVE A WHITE CHIDL WITH BLONDE HAIR BLUE EYES HOW EVER A TWO VERY WHITE PEOPLE CAN NOT PROCREATE A A BLACK CHILD VERY DARK WITH CURLY HAIR AND MELANIN THISA WILL NEVER EVER HAPPEN... IF IT DID HAPPEN THEN THSI WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO HAD DESIGNED IN A LABORATORY!!!!!!!!!!! SO IF YOU LISTEN TO CREATION AND BIBLICL TALES YOU WILL FEEL INFERIOR, THERE WILL BE NO BLACK ANGELS NO BLACK GOD????? WE ARE BEING BTAUGHT THAT JESUS IS THIS MAN GHOD WHO CRIES WENT TO TOILET AND WAS SOMEHOW ABLE TO BE FATHER AND SON AT THE SA THIS IS NTO SO THERE IS A GREAT AND WONDERFUL CREATION THAT WE THE BLACK PEOPLE THE ELDERS OF THE PLANET HAVE BEEN CELEBRATING OFR MILLIONS OF YEARS IT SHOULD STRIKE YOU AS INCREDIBLE THAT ONLY TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO GOD DECIDED TO REPROUCE HIMSELF IN MARYAND SHE BECAME THE MOTHER OF GOD?????? THAT IS BLASPHEME " ALLMIGHTY GOD2 IS CREATOR OF HIMSLEF AND NO ONE CAN BE CREDITED FOR GIVING HIM LIFE" HE ALONE IS THE LIFE GIVER" " HE IS UNDIVISIVE INDIVISIBLE ONE SOVERIEGN KING" THERE IS NOT A ENTITY ANYWHERE THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS"GREAT EVERLIVING PERPETUAL ENTITY" .. WE ARE LED TO BELIEVE THAT GOD GOT OLD SO HE NEEDS A SON TO TAKE OVER FOR HIM?? THAT IS A MAN MADE DELLUSION!! THE "ALLMIGHTY GOD" WHO STANDS FIRM UNDIVIDED INDIVISIBLE' DOES NOT AGE, HE LOOKS THE SAME WAY HE DID WHEN HE CREATED HIMSELF AND CREATE THE UNIVERSES AND THE EARTH BILLIONS OR EVEN TRILLIONS OF YEARS AGO!!!!!..... THIS IS THE TIME FOR AFRICANS TO BECOME MORE EDUCATED'!!! DO NOT TAKE THINGS FOR GRANTED YOU MUST ENQUIRE SEARCH YOUR HEART SEARCH THE EARTH FOR THE TRUTH!!!!!! WHITES BROUGHT TO US CHRISTIANITY TO USE AS A WEAPON OF THE MIND TO BRAINWASH AND ENSLAVE US!!!! ISLAM AND JUDAISM IS THE CLOSEST THING TO OUR TRUE FORM OF MONOTHEISEISM WHICH WAS OUR FOUNDING GROUNDING PRINCIPLES... IN ALL RIGHTEOUS RELIGIONS WE HAVE CIRCUMCISIONS; WHICH WAS PRACTICED VASTLY THRU-OUT ALL AFRICA PRIOR TO ENSLAVEMENT AND COLONILAISM ,EVERY SINGLE AFRICAN NATION DID IT!!! IT WAS WHITES WHO LATER FORBADE THE BLACK MAN FROM BEING HIMSLEF AND DOING AS HE DID AND SAID!!!.... WE MUST ALSO LOOK AT POLYGAMY WHICH WAS WIDELY PRACTICED IN ALL AFRICA TODAY CHRISTIANS ARE TEACHING MONOGAMY ONE WIFE AND THE LOVE OF SAME SEX THESE ARE OPPOSITE TEACHINGS OF THE NATIONS OF BLACK CULTURE!!!!!!!!!!!! TIME??????HAS ERODED OUR PRACTICES FORCIBLY BY THE WEST .THE CLOSEST TO OUR FORE FATHERS BELIEFS IS ISLAM TH PROHET MUHAMAD PEACE BE UPON HIM; GAVE TO THE EARTRH THE TRUTH THE TEACHINGS AND WARNINGS OF THE "ALLMIGHTY GOD".. ISLAM HAS ALSO BEEN TAMPERED WITH HOWEVER WHEN YOU READ THE HOLY QUARN YOU WILL A MUCH MORE BALANCED VERSION OF THE TRUTH.. AS AFRICANS YOU MUST REMEMBER THAT WE DID NOT START OUR HISTORY IN WEST AFRICA WE OPRIGINATED FROM THE RIFT VALLEY WHICH WAS WHERE CREATION BEGANTHERE WAS NO DIVISON OF WATER IN WHAT TODAY IS THE MID EAST NOR WAS THERE A SAHARA.. ANOTHER THING TO REMEMBER IS THAT THE SAHARTA NEVER PREVENTED US FROM GOING WORLD WIDECIRCUMNAVIGATING THE GLOBE.. WHEN WE WERE COLONISED WE WERE STUCK BEG HIND IMAGINARY LINES BY EUROEPANS WHO CREATED THESE IMAGINARY BORDERS CURTAILING OUR FREE INDIPENDENT SPIRITS!!!! ISLAM TEACHES THAT THE FATHER OF THE UNIVERSE IS THE GOD OF ALL HUMANITY" THIS WAS WHERE WITH "OUR LORD" YOUR CULTURE BEGAN ;IT WAS WITH THE SLAVE TRADE AND COLONIALISM IN AFRICA WHEN YOUR FORE FATHERS WERE , TORTURED ,RAPED ,MOLESTED ,STOLEN, KIDNAPPED FROM AFRICA!!! FORCED TO ABANDON THE TRUTH AND LED ASTRAY BY PAGANS SLAVE TRADERRS WHO WERE DECEIVERS ,LIARS , HYPOCRITS,, MURDERERS AN THIEVES'.. WE MUST ASK OURSELVES HOW CAN STAN TEACH US ABOUT GOD??????? " OUR FATHER WOULD NEVER ACCEPT THE TORTURE SLAVE TRADING AND OPPRESSION OF HUMAN BEINGS..... THESE ARE THINSG THAT ARE NOT ATTRIBUTES OF "OUR LORD" THIS COMPLTELY REVERSE OF THE TEACHINGS OF " OUR FATHER">>> WHEN WE ARE BEING TAUGHT TO LOVE SAME SEX PLAY UP IN DU DUWOMEN TO KISS FONDLEEACH OTHER THESE ARE LUST PERVERTED PRACTICES THAT SATAN HAS DEVISEDTO DISTRACT US FROM OUR PATH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!!!! CHRISTIANITY PROPOSES TO IDEALISE THE TEACHINGS OF SATAN????