Citizen TV anchor Kimani Mbugua has rattled a number of Kenyans online after denouncing his religion in a video that has since gone viral on Facebook.
Speaking in the recording he made in his car and shared on Facebook on Saturday, February 28, the soft-spoken journalist claimed that Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church is a cult.
Narrating that he had been devoted SDA member from childhood to his twenties, Mbugua argued that SDA faithful were incapable of having an open mind.
"I was very wrong and I am willing to admit it. I was very wrong in how I mistook the level of understanding that SDAs and Adventists have of the material they are consuming.
"I do hold strong views against Ellen Gould White (one of the founders of SDA church). I was born in SDA and now I know that SDA is not a church. It is a cult," stated the anchor boldly.
"I was born that way and raised that way. This is the only thing I have known for about 20 years from when I was a child to when I was an adult, there was a path for me and I followed it diligently," he continued.
Mbugua claimed that he had read widely including all White's books and concluded that the founder was a frauld.
"I have read every single Ellen book... and I will show you that she is a fraud. Your life would be easier if you were out in a Sunday worshipping service. In fact, I think those people are happy.
"Here is how you know it is a cult. If you don't read, the people who read the most get indoctrinated the most and get so deep in the cult they never see the other side and that was who I was," he added.
"I was very deep into it. I was ordained as an elder at the age of 16 at Karura Adventist," he remarked.
In the video which has since been shared 97 times and amassed more than 500 comments, Mbugua further details how his social life was negatively affected by the church doctrines.
This coming about a month after his colleague Willis Raburu's wife, Marya Prude, made an emotional remark on God, as she was mourning the loss of her stillborn daughter.
On January 8, via Instagram, Marya lauded her close friends for uplifting her spirit but also remarked that God had deserted her at a crucial stage in her life.
"Everyone is so quick to tell me about God. What they don’t know is that every way I knew Him, He was tested and He didn’t prove Himself. So as they say you should know God for yourself, I now can say, I don’t know Him. And I don’t think I want to know him coz He left me when I needed him the most," Marya lamented at the time.
Below is the video:
