A retired Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has warned the Senior Pastor of the Household of God Church International, Lagos, Chris Okotie, against speaking out of ignorance or face public ridicule.
The cardinal was reacting to a recent controversial comment credited to Okotie that “all Catholics will go to hell”.
The
flamboyant Okotie had while criticizing the Catholic Church in a sermon,
said the church was “a counterfeit church set up by Satan”, adding that
Catholics “bow to idols and crucify Jesus every Sunday when they eat
bread claiming they are eating Jesus’ body”. SEE MAIN SOURCE
The comment
has since generated widespread condemnation from Catholics, who fumed
over the propriety or otherwise of such a comment. But Okotie stood his
ground saying “Truth is bitter”, in apparent response to the reaction
his sermon generated.
Describing
the Catholic Church as “a counterfeit church set up by Satan,” Okotie
said, “They (Catholics) are not Christians and have never been. They
don’t know Jesus. They believe that when they eat bread on Sundays, they
are eating the body of Jesus. its ritual”, he added.
Okogie,
however, flayed the comment saying it was wrong for the 55-year-old
pastor to speak on what he knew little or nothing about.
He said, “It
is always good to talk on what you know, not on what you do not know.
The problem we have today is that a lot of people put their mouth in
what does not concern them because they want people to know that they
too are there; that they can be reckoned with.
“I don’t
think that is the way to do things, no. I think the best thing is to
always put your mouth where God puts it, if you don’t want to be
disgraced”, Okogie warned.
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