Unduly adherence to foreign religions is dangerous for Ghana

Ghana is proudly, although nominally, noted for being a Christian country. Ghanaians are happy that they are very religious, especially being Christians and Muslims.

Foreign religions have come to dominate Ghana at the expense of our own Ghanaian or African religion that has turned out to be outmoded. The African religion had its own merits and disadvantages.

While it instilled sense of discipline and truthfulness in us, it was at the same time cruel to us in some ways and to some extent.

People were afraid to commit crimes against their neighbours for the fear of suffering instant justice or punishment by the powers inherent in our Ghanaian religious practices.

On the other hand, sacrificing people to appease certain aspects of our religious beliefs was not good.

There should always be room for modernisation in every set of beliefs for the collective interests and wellbeing of the people and society. However, this has got nothing to do with the latest political beliefs of LGBTQI rights as have been imposed on the religions and seem to have been accepted, probably to the annoyance of God.

Before the total embrace of the various foreign religions as are now dominant in Ghana, Ghanaians were God-fearing people. They were honest with one another.

However, as Christianity, a foreign religion, has come to teach us that God is patient and slow to anger, not punishing us for our sins there and then, the Ghanaian has become cruel to his or her neighbour, unlike previously.

Ghanaians who claim to be Christians and or muslims do commit various crimes without any fear in them. They don't care one bit when doing wrong to their neighbour and country.

Are our politicians and leaders in positions of trust not almost all Christians and muslims? Why then this blatant perpetration and perpetuation of ruinous official corruption in Ghana?

Are the armed robbers and all those committing various crimes against the nation and the people not adherents to one foreign religion or the other?

Things are made worse when you bring the Ghanaian pastors and prophets into the equation. They are the most wicked ones giving bad name to the foreign religions.

In Ghana, evidence in the public domain tells that some of the Ghanaian pastors and prophets resort to fabrications and evil practices to enriching themselves at the expense of the wishes of God that they claim to serve.

Are some of the pastors and prophets not alleged to kill people for sacrifices in their quest for power and riches?

Are these same pastors not the very ones sleeping around and poking their manhood into any hole they see?

For what the Ghanaian foreign religion pastor stands to gain as a selfish individual, he or she will like to see their congregation attend church service 24/7 hours. They are more interested in the offertories and tithes they collect than the actual welfare of their congregation and the development of the country.

How can a nation develop when most of the citizens lazily spend most of their time in churches praying without going out to work?

The religious economy as is favoured by the Ghanaian in general, will forever make us underdogs to our contemporary whites who brought us that very religion.

I will continue to explain this viewpoint later. It is not on to allow Ghanaians to swallow foreign religions hook, line and sinker. It is very detrimental and suicidal the Ghanaians' overly embrace of foreign religions and its added interpretations by the Ghanaian pastors and prophets.

Rockson Adofo

Sunday, 21 February 2021