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  • Atheist Leader Harisson Mumia Wants His Quacker Baptism Revoked

    Atheist Leader Harisson Mumia Wants His Quacker Baptism Revoked

    The president of Kenyan non-believers in God, atheist Harrison Mumia, has written to his chilhood church, Friends Quackers, to invalidate his baptism and membership.

    AIK president Harrison Mumia recieving a Bible gift

    In a letter dated 17 October 2019,  Mumia who denounced Christianity in mid 2000s, states that has cut ties with Friends Quakers Church in Kakamega.

    “I would like to formally renounce my baptism and membership in the Quakers Church, Kenya,” Mr Mumia’s says in his letter dated October 17.

    The Atheist leader stated in the letter that the Church baptised him when he was young and without consent. He also demanded for a confirmation letter for his dismissal from Quackers Church.

    “I was baptised at the Quakers Church at Makhokho Secondary School, Kakamega County during my pre-teen years without my consent,” he complains.

    “I want any and all records associated with me at the Quakers Church destroyed. As an atheist, I no longer accept the implications of the rite of baptism.” Mumia added.

    Earlier this Month, Mumia’s father succummed to cancer and on 5th of October, the day his father was being laid to rest in Ikolomani, Kakamega County he said wrote this on his FB page.

    “In an hour, my late dad will be rested! People here think he will go to heaven!”

    The leader of AIK, who had also written to DP Ruto asking for gift bag from what he gives out to Churches. The atheist society is also pushing for the annulment of religious studies in schools.

    “Parents need to stop introducing religion to their children. Allow them to grow up to the age of 18 and let them decide whether they want to be religious or not,” Mr Mumia said in a past media interview.

  • Harrison Mumia Wants February 17th Declared National Holiday For Atheists

    Harrison Mumia Wants February 17th Declared National Holiday For Atheists

    Do you believe in God or gods? Or you believe in nothing!  Well, in Kenya, the association of non-believers has petitioned the government to recognize February 17th a National Holiday.

    Harrison Mumia, the president of Atheists in Kenya (AIK) has accused the government through his later to the State, of giving special treatment to Christians and Muslims and turning a blind eye on the minority groups such as atheists.

    According to Mumia, the government has taken them and their non-believing act for granted citing the decision by Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i to gazette Monday, August 12th, as a public holiday to mark the Islamic Festival of Eid ul Adha.

    “This declaration amounts to religious privilege that the dominant religions in Kenya (Christians and Muslims) have enjoyed since independence, courtesy of the Kenyan Government and the current Constitution,” he said in a letter.

    “In order to end this social inequity that is rooted in history and the normalization of Christianity and Islam as the de facto religions in Kenya, we demand that CS Fred Matiang’i declares February 17th as an atheist holiday,” Mumia added.

    Mumia said the declaration of February 17th as atheists’ holiday would end the abhorrence they face from members of dominant religious groups in the country.

    “As it stands today, atheists are considered an underclass in this country, yet our constitution protects freedom of belief and conscience,” he noted.
    AIK was registered as a society under the Societies Act, Cap 108 on February 17th, 2016.