Religion Poses the Greatest Security Risk to our Country

This whole issue of religion is a national security question, and only the naïve who has not taken cognizance of the religious history of this world will fail to recognize the imminent danger religion poses to this country.

Established religion began with the incident of the burning Bush which Moses claimed to have encountered in the wilderness. Before then, individual families worshipped their own deities and sought to obey their set commands.

But when Moses saw the burning bush, he instituted the burning of livestock and foodstuff as a national practice for the ancient Israelites. And the whole people were compelled to worship one God and burn stuff for it under law. So much so that this god worship where the resources of the people were set on fire became the ultimate edict of the people, where those who refused to bring in their resources to be burned at the altar were put under the pain of death. We must acknowledge then that religion began with the ultimate folly of burning human treasure as sweet aroma for the inhalation of the Holy Other.

Religion, which began with this ultimate folly, expressed by Moses in the context of 613 multifarious laws, had no pathway to develop into something positive until the advent of Jesus Christ. Jesus sought to tamper the prevailing folly with a conduct of morality and ethics to make religion cohere with the evolution of human civilization: Love your neighbor as yourself!........ Until then, religion was narrowed to burning livestock, or following 613 laws of Moses with little or nothing to do with ethics and morality.

Eventually, the Jesus mission failed because it was coopted by the then religious establishment that swallowed it up and practiced in Jesus’ name the old useless rituals and hokum under a new burning order. The Jesus Church which evolved into the Roman Catholic Church weaned itself of the burnt sacrifice of livestock, and instead, instituted the more terrifying practice of burning human beings accused of blasphemy, witchcraft, deviant apostate science and unbelief. The church also used the creative energy of its members to develop a high level of instruments of torture to force confessions from its victims before burning them at the stakes. The point of all this is that the church existed with no moral or ethical behavior as taught by the Christ. To wit, the message of Christ had nothing to do with the practices of the Catholic Church.

In parts of the Arabian Peninsula also emerged the Mohammedan religion which also featured its own prophet and brand. It was modelled after Moses and waged war over the Christian nations, conquering its holy sites like Jerusalem and others. In reaction to these Islamic conquests, the Christians fought the Crusades to reconquer their lands from the Muslims. Other internecine wars were fought during the dark ages when men did not have the right or freedom to think. The Jesus mission of love and peace did not guide the conduct of men.

The point of it all is that it is a great delusion to suppose that religion has ever promulgated any good deeds to our world. Rather, it is to be blamed for the death of not less than seven billion people, and the suffering and torture of billions of others. Therefore, every civilization’s rise or fall has been coextensive and indeed proportional with the level of its involvement and devotion to the religious hokum.

So religion is a destabilizing experience of nations and has done more damage to the brain of humanity and his advancement to the heights of civilization

In Africa, the advent of religion had no pretension about its harm to society. Of course, our brand of hokum with the witch doctors and those juju people was widespread, but it was nothing organized to expiate thinking up to the scale of Christianity or Islam. Christianity and Islam were brought to us on account of the outsiders search to seize our resources and even our people. So those who came with the established religion had no deceptive qualms: They came to steal our resources and our property. Period.

And in order to achieve that, they needed to train some so-called natives of the land to assist them to plunder the country. So then, they trained some of our people in their ways of life in the name of education. So both education and religion came to us as tools for our own oppression, and not to liberate us from ignorance or to teach us the path to any salvation

Till date, nothing has changed. The only change we have is that instead of one establishment purveying it lies to destroy the minds of our people, now we have a panoply of individuals who set up churches and have used all kinds of trick to exploit the people and to rip them of their resources. At least the Roman Catholic church had his own single order of exploitation which could lead to some social benefits to cover up for their misdeeds. These new mushroom churches have no cover-up for their mischief. They have plundered the people with more avarice and entirely discounted any type of social responsibility. Few have built schools or hospitals or houses for the poor or supported society in any form of shape. They are parasitic entities which have hypnotized the masses with the most ridiculous forms of magic, message and demands. Some are well-known to fake miracles, to sleep with married women, to rape young girls, to defraud their members, to miseducate them, brainwash them, and to leave them with perpetual dependency syndrome where whatever they tell the becomes the word of God.

If one takes a peep at what goes on in the churches by watching some of the reels on social media, one easily understands the extent of our security problem. People are no longer burning sheep or cows or foodstuffs on the altar of Jehovah. They are not tying up people on the stakes and burning them alive. Our society has peace, because it is not riddled with internecine warfare as in the time of the dark ages.

Rather the people have voluntarily surrendered their brains to be burned on the altar of the new-fangled churches. The aim is single and destructive: To fleece people of their wealth via every conceivable contretemps, to befuddle their brains with elementary magic, and to leave them with the bare bones of their resources, having eaten all the flesh through chicanery

And if you think of the fact that 95% of the population are following this religious hokum, then you can see the magnitude of the problem: These churches don’t pay any taxes, and yet they have been able to impose tithes on their membership to impoverish them and to abandon them to their fate with no resources available to them to lead their lives meaningfully. Contrarily, the leaders of these mushroom churches hoard their money in foreign accounts and engage in opulent purchases of foreign goods and foreign homes from which this country has no benefit.

What we are left is people misdirecting their anger on the government, having been made hypnotized and oblivious of the true cause of their poverty. Because they are operating with burning brains, they cannot fathom the logical sequence of their poverty. They divide their resources into ten, and give the church one in the belief that their God will multiply their resources, And when the scheme of this gambling becomes abortive, they turn their anger upon the government.

The government also appears helpless and has given incentives to these churches to fleece the people. The churches don’t pay any taxes, and yet remain the richest holders of the national funds, doing nothing to help their country. To wit, the country derives no use from the churches and is waiting for its repercussion. The people are e going to rise up in their hunger and anger, but when the time comes, the church leaders will be pointing their fingers at the politicians for creating difficulties for the people.

Meanwhile, it is the church that has burned the brains of the people, caused them to spend a lot of their time in the church, created illusions and superstition amongst them, and infused them with stupid explanation alleging that they have spiritual problems………

But no matter what we say, the church is at its usual game of fooling the people as it has done from the very beginning when Moses told them to burn their livestock and foodstuff as sweet aroma to God. No matter what, no amount of religion will free us from the chains of religion, which is to impose the most stupendous tepidity and stupidity on the people in the name of worshipping God.

By Dr. Samuel Adjei Sarfo, Esq.