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Kenyan Pastor Bans Female Congregants From Wearing Underwear in Church
Note to SPIES - I already checked Snopes and this appears to be legit. Note the article is from the Christian Post, who apparently sourced it from Nigerian Watch. It is sort of old, from March 2014, so feel free to gripe, scold and nit-pick about that.
Also, "Lord's Propeller Redemption Church" is just about the best church name ever, and I hope some death-rock band steals it.
Kenyan Pastor Bans Female Congregants From Wearing Underwear in Church
By Katherine Weber, Christian Post Reporter
March 4, 2014 - 12:19 pm
A pastor in Kenya is making headlines for recently banning his female congregants from wearing underwear to church, telling them to avoid wearing the garments in order to be closer to God.
The pastor, described only as the Rev. Njohi by The Kenyan Daily Post, reportedly asked his female congregants at the Lord's Propeller Redemption church in Dandora to arrive at Sunday's service without underwear or bras. The pastor's reasoning was that the undergarments are "ungodly," and people need to be "free in 'body' and 'spirit' to receive Christ," according to the local newspaper. The church is located in an eastern suburb of Nairobi.
According to Nigerian Watch, the pastor also said he made the new rule for women so God can enter their bodies easily. The pastor added that women who continue to wear undergarments to church will suffer "dire consequences," and encouraged mothers attending his services to check their daughters to make sure they had obeyed the new rule...
By Katherine Weber, Christian Post Reporter
March 4, 2014 - 12:19 pm
A pastor in Kenya is making headlines for recently banning his female congregants from wearing underwear to church, telling them to avoid wearing the garments in order to be closer to God.
The pastor, described only as the Rev. Njohi by The Kenyan Daily Post, reportedly asked his female congregants at the Lord's Propeller Redemption church in Dandora to arrive at Sunday's service without underwear or bras. The pastor's reasoning was that the undergarments are "ungodly," and people need to be "free in 'body' and 'spirit' to receive Christ," according to the local newspaper. The church is located in an eastern suburb of Nairobi.
According to Nigerian Watch, the pastor also said he made the new rule for women so God can enter their bodies easily. The pastor added that women who continue to wear undergarments to church will suffer "dire consequences," and encouraged mothers attending his services to check their daughters to make sure they had obeyed the new rule...
http://www.christianpost.com/news/kenyan-pastor-bans-female-congregants-from-wearing-underwear-in-church-115528/
The story reminds me of an old Southern joke: it was a blazing hot August day in church, and Sister Rose was at her usual place - up in the choir, behind and above the preacher.
Suddenly Sister Rose passed out from the heat, slipped down in her chair, and revealed she was wearing no underwear.
The preacher thundered: "Close your eyes! Any man who looks upon this poor unfortunate woman will be STRUCK BLIND by the Lord!"
A deacon sitting in the first pew raised a hand to his face and whispered: "Well, I'm gonna risk one eye, anyway..."
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Are they allowed to wear underwear? If they would like my personal suggestion, it would be even closer to God if they were all naked they way God created them.
And we are sometimes called misogynists. 
So of course we get to keep our underwear on. From the article:
The UK Metro points out that it is unclear why Njohi has advised women to leave their undergarments at home but still allows men to wear theirs.
Now go make me a sammich!
Unworthy personal anecdote: I saw the "unworthy wimmen" attitude quite a bit in Egypt, only for real.
One time I was going into a grocery store where the 2 checkers were visible from the street - one man, one woman at their cash registers.
My Egyptian driver said, "Don't go to the woman when you check out. She's stupid."
This was a chance to do a scientific experiment. So I smiled and waved at the driver when I went straight to the woman checker.
That woman was definitely non-stupid, very efficient and spoke English better than me. Admittedly a pretty low bar, since I grew up in the South and even many Americans can't understand me.
There's a whole folk literature in Egypt, going back centuries, about Egyptian men going down south to kidnap Nubian women as wives. All those stories end the same way: the man goes back home wifeless because the Nubian woman outsmarted him and got away.
