ABSTRACT
Critical views of Christianity and the part it plays in our present world are not hard to come by. It is worth trying to listen carefully to what they are saying. A Kenyan writer, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, gives a harsh caricature of the Church in his own country in his novel, Petals of Blood (London, 1977). He seems to assign to the Church the role accorded to it by Marx, depicting it as a means of making people content with the status quo.
