"Unpacking the Role of Politics and Religion in Society: A Closer Look at the Circus"

Karl Marx said it well that Religion is the opium of the people. It is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of our soulless conditions. Recent events in Kenya has seen the political class seek influence in the religious fraternity. Can we really blame them it is all about who has the numbers to be precise the voters. With the dwindling public confidence in the current regime, the political class are jittered with a possibility of early retirement from the political world.

The political and religion relationship further gets complicated as political leaders are going back to the grassroot where the religious fraternity have the community under their spell if they say let’s go south they all follow like sheep going to a slaughterhouse. Besides the religious leaders are just playing out their role in the religious community the shepherd shepherds the flock. Apparently, it seems the religious hog wash doesn’t suffice with the new generation who are bold and question everything. Do I really need to give such a huge offering to be blessed ? Do I need to make it public? Some of the questions the new generation have that they are determined to get the answers from the religious fraternity by confronting them by occupying the churches.

The political class are not somewhat saints everyone is asking where the source of the huge donations come from and those questions remained unanswered. The circus will continue with new generation demanding to get the answers, political class hiding behind the name of God to obtain sympathy votes and the men of the cloth receiving the donations as a sign that God answered their prayers.