Long lasting solution to the recent societal issues

The governments across the East must collaborate with their various house of assembly to make laws to sanitize religious practices. The recent shenanigans must be tactically stopped.

1. Before you are approved to work as a junior pastor in any church, you must have a masters degree from a reputable theological institution with other stringent requirements including clean character, you can't just go and interpret what you don't know in the name of "calling this and calling that".
2. Before you are approved to work as a senior pastor in any church, you must have a PhD from a reputable theological institution with several years of experience and other stringent requirements.
3. Before you are approved to open a church or prayer ministry or any religious organization, you must have a PhD from a reputable theological institution with several years of experience, mentorship from a respected church owner, clean character and other stringent requirements.

4. Before you are approved to work as an assistant native doctor in any shrine, you must have a masters degree from a reputable witchcraft/traditional institution with other stringent requirements including clean character, you can't just go and do whatever you like and get away with it.
5. Before you are approved to work as a senior native doctor in any shrine, you must have a PhD from a reputable witchcraft/traditional institution with several years of experience and other stringent requirements.
6. Before you are approved to open a shrine or any traditional religious organization, you must have a PhD from a reputable witchcraft/traditional institution with several years of experience, mentorship from a respected shrine owner, clean character and other stringent requirements.

7. Before you are approved to work as an imam or Muslim cleric in any mosque you must have a masters degree from a reputable muslim theological institution with other stringent requirements including clean character, you can't just go and interpret what you don't know in the name of calling this, calling that.
8. Before you are approved to work as a senior imam/clearic in any mosque, you must have a PhD from a reputable islamic theological institution with several years of experience and other stringent requirements.
9. Before you are approved to open a mosque or any Islamic prayer ministry or any islamic religious organization, you must have a PhD from a reputable Islamic theological institution with several years of experience, mentorship from a respected mosque owner, clean character and other stringent requirements.

Existing religious institutions and preachers should be given one year to meet these requirements or close down.

Even foreign guest preachers invited to preach or foreigners who want to open any religious organization must meet these requirements with more scrutiny.

This will not in anyway infringe on anyone's right to worship. It will not work against the existing constitutional rights to association or worship rather it will strengthen it.

If there are requirements to become a banker, lawyer, doctor and all that,  they should be requirements to become a cleric.

They actions of the clerics, priests and pastors have direct impacts on men, women, youths, families and the society at large and thus should not be left for anything that goes, as it is right now.

Note: I'm a born again Christian but what we have witnessed in recent years calls for check and balances in these religious  institutions.

Hunger is not a good thing. See determination for their faces.

... their apprentices on Nairaland will be bragging about being very rich and able to feed families of people they can't even talk to in real life

Confirmedzombie:


I swear. See how malnourished billionaires are looking.

Chia
Odi egwu oooo.

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They don't always look healthy... They should bring him let me deal with him