Christian Council Should Sit Up And Support Government On Christian Pilgrimage Offer

What is the usefulness of a governing council if it can not act in the best interest of the body it seeks to govern? I read with jaw dropping awe that the Christian council rejected an offer to facilitate Christian pilgrimage to the Holy land under the previous John Mahama administration and has again refused to be part of a similar offer by the Akuffo-Addo led administration. I think as the Bible rightly puts it, Christians are the salt of the earth, and if the salt loses its savor, it is rendered useless and must be thrown on the ground to be trampled upon. In a similar manner, the Christian council of Ghana will lose its usefulness if it cannot work in the best interest of the body of Christ it seeks to govern by refusing to accept a simple facilitating role of a government that has found it very necessary to help interested Christians visit the Holy Land on the flimsy excuse that the government has no business organizing Christian pilgrimages, then I would argue that if the takes this stand against the proposal by government, then the council has lost its usefulness and must be expunged from the Christian administration.

It seems to me that, all that the council is interested in is the propagation of false doctrines especially those on tithing and giving that coerce the people to give and give more so that they can fund their fat salaries and their very comfortable living without even thinking about the very wellbeing of the entire Christian population in Ghana that support their lifestyle. The council is behaving like someone who cannot afford to pay his children's school fees, and yet refuses an offer from a neighbor to pay the children's fees for him because that would amount to humiliation whilst the children stay out of school with their future in jeopardy.

This same Christian council supports the naked discrimination going on in the country against the southerners that are predominantly Christians. Whereas every northerner willing to go to school can do so free of charge from kindergarten to University, poor peasant farmers who can not afford tuition and other costs of schooling in the south have to watch their children either not enrolled in school at all, or drop out when paying their fees becomes a matter of choice between food and education. Yet we pride ourselves that we are all Ghanaians living under equal rights and justice. Where are the equal rights when my fellow Ghanaian from the north has the right to free education and my brothers from the south drop out of school for lack of money? And where is the justice when we all pay taxes into the same trough but the taxes are used to fund free education for some Ghanaians at the expense of others?

I am someone who believe that the government has no business in religious affairs, I believe in the principle of separation of Church and the state, however, if the government deems it fit to support the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca with my taxes, then why shouldn't the same privilege be extended to my fellow Christians who want to embark on similar adventure, and why should the Christian council that should support such an endeavor kick against it? This is unconscionable on the part of the council very preposterous to say the least. Christians and Moslems in Ghana deserve equal treatment when it comes to government expenditure. After all, what is good for the goose, they say, is equally good for the gander. Christian council, please stop the hypocrisy and support the government in this noble enterprise.