Country needs a purge, Mr PM

While some may challenge the activity as being unnecessary, there is a point to note that it served us quite well as children; if not just to slow us down and give us cause for reflection. Back then it didn’t matter how much you protested, our mothers knew best.

Today, I am of the view that our nation is in need of a purge. As we enter this period of our national history, we are pained by the constrictions to our progress, the serious financial constipation, moral decadence and stomach-churning murders.

We have tried so many diets from the experts and naysayers, but there is some merit in applying the tried and tested occasional purge of our system, burdened as it is with a history of largesse and overindulgence.

I speak not of the routine call for a change in diet as administered by our political nutritionists, but a good doze of senna for the country, accompanied by a time for rest and reflection. This will definitely force us to sit down and contemplate our state.

We must challenge ourselves as a nation to do what is necessary, to reduce the harmful concoction of crime and moral decay, which are harmful to our consumption. Indeed, we must go deeper, beyond the dialogue and conversations to address the source of our malady and expel those elements that restrict us from operating efficiently.

We need to come clean with the reality of our situation before God and country and set ourselves the task, though painful, to cleanse ourselves in body, soul and spirit.

Although some among us have performed our religious duty of fasting and prayer, there is the urgent need for a national coordinated effort as a people to address the present state of our country.

I appeal to the Christian community not to be content with a few days of prayer and fast, but to improve their regimen in addressing the spirits of crime, violence and corruption, among others.

So my call is for the “Christian collective” to join the rest of the nation in a special 40-day holy fast that would culminate with the expected freedoms on Independence Day and beyond.

At the beginning of this Government’s term of office, I had called for a day of prayer and thanksgiving.

Now I am calling for a 40-day fast for the nation, a time of cleansing and a time when we can administer a “spiritual purge” to get rid of the undesirable elements that plague us. We have tried everything else, why not try the biblical method of securing guidance for a nation... “that the people would fast and pray, turn from their wicked ways and seek God” ...so that “a remnant will be blessed and a nation will be purged of its sins.” Time for our nation to take a “spiritual purge,” Mr PM.

APOSTLE TERRENCE HONORE via email