Blood Covenant; Was The UPSA Girl A Victim Of Superstition?

Somewhere in November, we all woke up to hear the sad news. A taxi driver stabbed his girlfriend to death, the latter a level 300 Banking and Finance student of University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA). Per news report, aside the insecurity understandably associated with any relationship and needs working on, this driver gave another reason far more basic than the insecurity. What was the reason? According to news report, he said they did or had blood covenant. Hmmmm.

Whether that is true or not per this case does not matter as blood covenant is a pervasive belief, by reference or involvement in our society. There can be no other reason to believing in blood covenant than believing that blood is a spiritually endowered liquid in the body of humans.

Let us assume that this taxi driver talked to two persons, one Religious and the other Non-religious. He narrated his ordeal and why he acted the way he does. The main reason so far was the fear of suffering the spiritual consequences of the blood covenant they did to never leave each other whilst alive.

Now the recent behaviours of the girl are indicating that she wants to leave him, and that will subject either of them to the likely outcomes of the covenant. So, his actions are to be understood within the context of the covenant and its implications should there be a breach of committment. What could be the possible responses from the Non-religious and the Religious person, hereafter NP and RP respectively.

The NP, upon hearing the narration of the taxi driver, would tell him point-blank for destroying an innocent live for nothing than superstition and baseless fear. The NP's reasons will simply be this; look, blood does not serve as a spiritual wormhole or tunnel for any God/Satan to watch over your relationship with that Being or colleague human being, in this case your girlfriend. Any breach in committment to any relationship only brings pychological and probably physical pains, when one takes it to the extreme given the time, energy and money one invested in.

Should the girl eventually breakup with you or you with her whilst alive, despite that superstitious act of blood covenant, no God/Satan will come chasing you, let alone striking you mad or with whatever for whatever reasons. Those were your unfounded fears. There is practically nothing to fear beyond losing your lover as painful as the latter is. Even then, with time you could overcome the pain. Now due to this useless fears of yours from the superstition that society remains indifferent to, you had killed someone's daughter, the practical hope of others.

If you really loved this girl as you claimed and also think a little, you should have killed the superstition pushing you rather than the girl. Of course, to be directly responsible for someone's death is psychologically and socially disturbing. Whilst the police forces will certainly deal with the case since you have committed a crime, you must forgive yourself, and equally seek that of her family as well. The latter, you must do cautiously and do not give them that nonsensical reason that you did blood covenant.

The RP, upon hearing the narration of the taxi driver, would tell him point-blank for destroying an innocent live for probably being under the control of demonic forces due to the covenant. The following could be the RP's reason; look, this is a spiritual world ruled by good and bad spirits. Blood certainly establishes spiritual contacts. Blood covenant is like inviting any spirit to look over your relationship. Your lives are literally in the hands of that invited spirit.

In fact, blood covenant is a spiritual covenant. My holy book and others as well as almost all religion teach that that is the case. That is why you must be careful with what you engage or believe in. Nevertheless, my religion made me know that the blood covenant I believed in, whether by involvement or reference, is the true and good spirit backed one.

This blood covenant defeats the demonic spirits covenants, of which what you and your late girlfriend did is an example. As it is now you need deliverance from the demonic spell from that covenant. So join me and overcome those fears. Nothing will harm you as far as you remain steadfast and prayerful to the God of this covenant. There is power in the blood. Whilst the police forces will likely deal with the case since you have committed a crime, nevertheless my God forgives sins and shall, in fact had forgiven you already.

Clearly, there is a marked difference in tackling the fundamental fear of this driver, representing that of society which has to do with the belief that blood is essentially a spiritual tunnel to the spirit world, hence blood covenant is a spiritual relationship. Whilst the NP condemns the blood covenant itself as relics of primitivity and superstition, the RP "condemns" it as demonic and then prescribe another as godly.

Whilst the NP hopes that no one ever repeats that, by involvement or reference, because it has no factual basis in Nature, the RP believes there is a true and good-spirit backed blood covenant and that he is part of that one. The responses in this simple conversation between the driver and our imaginary friends are representative of what goes on in our Ghanaian society. And we all know the RP will carry the day.

In sum, we are never condemning superstition in Ghana. Rather, we are always prescribing another. It is imaginable to say that the UPS girl lost her live to superstition called blood covenant and many are equally doing so unnoticed. Who knows if someone prescribed blood covenant to that taxi driver as the spiritually sanctioned means of securing relationship.

Let us go into the strong room of superstiton called religion and its encyclopedia called holy books to find out the primitive source of the blood covenant belief. Despite their differences in practice and worship, there is a commonality of belief to all religions and that is the alleged spiritual essence of blood. Almost all religions teach that. Blood is the drink and medium of contacts to the Gods.

When a Christian claims that Christiniaty is true and others false, he is essentially saying the progression from animal (goat, sheep etc) to human (Jesus) bloods sacrificed to Jehovah are true bloods. One must ask whether it is false bloods offered to the God of Islam, Traditional and Hindu among others .

That must be very, very, very ridiculous. This belief of spiritual essence of blood, leading to blood covenant as a medium of contacting spiritual beings for whatever purposes is so primitive and nauseating that one wonders how this nonsense persists by reference or involvement.

We are all conversant with blood. It is the red-pigmented liquid in the human body. It is multifunctional as far as health is concerned. When lost uncontrollably via wound, it is likely to cause death. As death is the likely result of severe hemorrhages, blood transfusion saves lives. For that blood is called the fluid of life.

The fact that blood saves lives has no resemblance to the superstitious blood sacrifice touted by religion. Blood transfusion is not blood sacrifice. Neither is it blood covenant. Blood transfusion involves the transfer of blood into the biological system of the person in need. Blood sacrifice involves pouring out the blood onto the "ground" where the bloodthirsty God is believed to be spiritually.

The latter practice believes there is a spiritual essence in or about blood locked up in the human or animal body. Yet, the composition of blood as known has no such thing. The red liquid in the body of me, you, Buddha, Mohammed, Jesus and others who ever lived and will live is not a spiritual wormhole or tunnel. It is Matter, a very indispensable one at that. Yet, there is nothing spiritual in or about it.

Wait, are the following running through your mind. Science cannot explain everything. It is limited. It cannot understand let alone explain spiritual things. These are but some positions that reinforce the above-mentioned claims and that its denial is but a foul cry from the inadequate and ill-equipped yet stubborn science.

Who even said you need to be a scientist, engineer to know that there is nothing spiritual in your own blood, and hence that of others. You see science must not have the capacity to explain everything and occurences in the universe in order to ascertain the possibility of a claim as true or false and as wishful thinking or fact.

The little known, when properly applied is enough. In fact that is what man had been doing all this while and the result is the profusion and proliferation of technology. Science is just a window via which we are looking at how Nature behaves. Each time we do, clearly the lies of religion are over to the observer, the honest observer.

Ghanaians love and cherish superstition. The encyclopedia called holy books and relics of oral tradition are there to help us call superstition mystery and temporary ignorance revelation. Society has ossified them into our consciousness. We are actively contributing to making people victims of superstition in the name of religion and spirituality.

Society must gather the courage to forcefully speak against the nonsensical and stupid primitive teaching that human blood is spiritual, and establishes spiritual covenant between God/Satan and Man as well as among men themselves for security, forgiveness, material and spiritual blessings here and the herafter.

Blood is not a spiritual tunnel through which to contact any God/Satan anywhere. Blood is matter, and that is all that it is. No matter how remote it could be, the student of University of Professional Studies, UPS was practically a victim of superstitious practice called blood covenant. Thanks to society, Ghanaian and African society.

First the superstition was limited to "there is power in the blood". Now superstitous Ghanaians and Africans made a new discovery, "there is money in the blood", so destroying lives of innocent and vulnerable children and women especially, in the name of money-making is saturating the system. When a nation remains indifferent to superstition that it is a religious or spiritual nation and proudly so, these and many more are the outcomes. I shall be back on the "new discovery" in this spiritual essence of the blood.

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