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| Alex Chisulu |
Renting a small house in Kitwe’s bustling Bulangililo neighbourhood
is 46 year old Alex Mwamba Kazhimbala Chisulu, a controversial Satanist who has
left a community divided over his religious views.
The walls inside his house are decorated with Satanic symbols
which he proudly explained during an interview.
He is actually a former Catholic Priest who controversially
converted to a religion which most Zambians hold with fear and suspicion:
Satanism.
For years, he has confused his neighbours, annoyed his landlord
and created tension in the area were he lives.
Since he is an open Satanist, people around him have linked all
their misfortunes to him.
“Even witchcraft, sicknesses and other misfortunes are blamed on
me, but am a clean man, I have never touched or slapped anyone, am clean,” he
said in an exclusive interview.
To understand why Chisulu is such a divisive figure, it is
important to get back to the bottom of the matter and trace his history.
Chisulu was born in 1972 in the northern Zambian town of Solwezi,
a mineral rich town which has been millions of investments by multi-national
conglomerates in the recent past.
He is a highly educated man who earns his living by conducting
tuitions to adults in his house.
People who drive expensive cars come in the evening, park their
vehicles and sit down to learn from a man who does not shy away from being
identified as a follower of Satan.
Inside his house is a black board and a box of chalk which he uses
for his tuition sessions.
Priesthood
Chisulu says he entered the Saint Augustine Major Catholic Seminary
in Kabwe to study for priesthood and spent three years there.
“While at the seminary, I discovered that am a very critical
person, I ask too many questions. Here I was studying Philosophy and it gave me
room to question many things and understand man. I graduated with a
Diploma.”
He boasts that even lecturers knew him as an inquisitive person
who questioned everything.
Between 1997 and 2002, Chisulu enrolled at Saint Dominic's Major
Seminary in Lusaka were he studied for his Bachelor in Theology, a course which
he says was difficult because he was not allowed to question church doctrines.
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Some of the Satanic symbols
in his house
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He says despite being critical about the course, he completed and
graduated.
“I was later ordained as a Priest in Solwezi and sent to Manyinga,
an area which was part of Kabompo District but is now a new district.
“In Manyinga I felt too much opposition because I ran a lot of
businesses like chicken rearing, livestock and I was even building the first
ever filling station in the area. The 2-3 years I spent there were difficult,”
he added.
Chisulu alleges that one day his Bishop showed up at his house in
a Land Cruiser and delivered a letter of transfer and gave him a few minutes to
pack his belongs and leave for Solwezi.
He was then taken to Saint Kizito in Solwezi were he became an
assistant to another Priest.
He said the move annoyed him and he immediately applied for leave
of absence.
That is how his priesthood ended.
Enter
Satanism
Having left the ministry, Chisulu decided to relocate to the
Copperbelt to start a new life.
“I first rented a house in Kwacha township before I moved to
Bulangililo were am currently living. Its here were I met this woman who I
married but it didn’t last, because of my religion (Satanism) she accused me of
all sorts of things and left,” said Chisulu.
I then got a job at Brightway School were I started teaching to
earn a living.
He says on July 6, 2016 he experienced something strange which
made him shake and felt weak.
“I used to meditate in the morning before class, but on this day I
had a strange feeling. I felt a crack on my head, I felt a flash light, my
limbs were jerking and I couldn’t teach.”
He says he left school and went home and to date he still feels
the jerks.
Chisulu says that experience was his awakening and transformation
into a Satanist.
He says he felt something like a snake which went through his
spine and came out through the head and since then, his eyes are open and he
now knows what is right and what is wrong.
“I practice a religion called Orionism. Satan is the Emperor of
the Orion hence I discovered this religion to be Orionism,” he said.
Chisulu says he decided to become a Satanist after much research
on the role of religion in life.
His
Views On Christianity and Islam
After much research, Chisulu says the theology taught in
Christianity and Islam is fake and it is full of violence.
He gives examples mostly from the Old Testament were God killed
enemies of the children of Israel or his followers who sacrificed their
children to God as examples of violence allegedly promoted by the Bible.
“I got to learn that Christianity is fake, it’s a hoax, its
wicked, very evil and its same with Islam which promotes Jihad or Holy War
which kills people. The only true religion I came ti understand is Satanism.
Satan means the truth according to an ancient Hindi script.”
Chisulu goes on to talk about Genesis 2:17 were the Bible talks
about the Garden of Eden and how God instructed Adam and Eve not to eat from
the tree of knowledge.
He trashes the Biblical account saying there were lies in God’s
instructions and the serpent (He calls it Satan) told them the truth).
“That whole scenario was fake. When I researched, I found out that
there was no tree. That so-called tree is actually a man’s spine because it is
the center of the body. Jehovah (He calls God as Jehovah) was scared of Adam
knowing the truth that is how he lied to him. Most people in Christianity are
lost, they were cheated.”
He claims that Christianity and Islam are just a program designed
to destroy humanity and that Jesus is a fictitious character.
He wonders why Christians celebrate the death of Jesus instead of
resurrection.
He describes it as glorifying violence instead of embracing life.
“What is the purpose of a dead man on the cross to us? Christians
are lost, they are cheated, they are confused,” he said.
He goes on to cite many Bible verses were children of God killed
their enemies and says violence was promoted in the Bible.
Chisulu claims Christianity has been a threat to world peace and
in Zambia since the declaration of the county as a Christian Nation in December
1991, divorces have shot up, deaths have skyrocketed, evil has increased.
He says the only religion which can cleanse the works is Satanism.
Orionism And His Role
Chisulu acknowledges that Satan lost the battle to God but he
claims he will have a come back soon.
“Satan is on his way back to victory because he is the truth. If I
was given chance on a Television program, I can help people think properly and
convert them to Satanism, people are lost.”
He says Christians go to church and make noise and achieve nothing
because they are misled.
When asked why he lives in poverty when it is believed that
Satanists get a lot of money upon being initiated, Chisulu said Satanism is an
awakening and not a business.
“If you join Satanism thinking you will make money then you are in
a wrong place. When you are a Satanist, you gain a third eye and the sixth
sense. You will be enlightened and be able to see things other people cant
see,” said Chisulu.
His
Eviction Over Satanism
Last week, Chisulu was given notice by his landlord to vacate his
rented house because his neighbours were not comfortable with his presence.
On Saturday as ZNBC reporter Wamundila Chilinda was interviewing
him at his house, hundreds of Bulangililo residents gathered in no time.
They started stoning his house, smashing the windows.
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| Bulangililo residents who gathered to stone Mr. Chisulu |
Things could have been worse but heavily armed officers from
Riverside Police Station arrived on site within minutes and rescued him.
He was whisked away to an unknown lodge were he has spent the last
five nights.
His belongings, a handful of chairs and clothes, are still stuck
in his house as he is scared of being lynched by his neighbours.
A good Samaritan has been paying for his room at a lodge and even
bought him some clothes so that he can be changing.
Despite all this, Chisulu still believes Satanism has the real
truth and other religions are fake.
“My god Satan has brought me here so that people can come to know
the truth, he said.”
He was recently spotted at a popular bar, sipping some cold ones
while looking unworried.
In a Christian nation like Zambia, it is not known how far Chisulu
will go in practicing Satanism openly.
A number of prominent foreign preachers and South African artist
Zodwa Wabantu were denied entry in the country due to what the Ministry of
Religious Affairs and National Values calls “Unchristian” beliefs and acts.
By the way, Chisulu says he is now studying for his Master in
Business Administration at Cavendish University and he is more normal than
people accusing him to be mad.
“When you look at me, do I look mad? Tell me, am I mad?” said
Chisulu as he smiled.
