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Fooled into believing that Ebola was a satanic disease imposed over Liberia because of homosexuality and wide-spread corruption, over 100 Pentecostal Pastors died miserably and foolishly as they laid their hands on Ebola victims, praying for them, hours and even days attempting to exorcise and deliver them from Ebola, instead of taking these people to hospitals and medical centers to seek treatment.
To these pastors, everything is spiritual, and as such, try solving all problems from the spiritual perspective.
In Ghana, we had Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams leading over 5,000 congregants (many among them highly educated men and women) in his English-speaking Charismatic Church praying heavily in tongues for the Ghana Cedi to rise.
What a wooow!!!
And has the Ghana Cedis actually risen or appreciated in value? The Cedi has rather depreciated in value ever since, with the Dollar-Cedi ratio almost equivalent now at 1:4 ($1=3.8100 at the time of writing).
Prime Minister David Cameron (UK) does not pray or fast for the British Pound Sterling to rise or appreciate in value; Rather, the implementation of prudent economic measures, wise spending, avoiding unnecessary borrowing and total anti-corruption initiatives have made the British Pound Sterling & the British Economy what it is today.
When Zaire (now DR Congo) qualified for it’s first FIFA World Cup in 1974, the then President, Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa-Za Banga[a] sent a delegation of 72 spiritual men in accompanying the team to West Germany. Yet, with all these spiritual men, they could not score a single goal, but conceded a whopping 14 goals in just their first 3 matches.
In Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Senegal, Zambia, Kenya, Uganda, and other African countries, the actions, inactions, beliefs and thoughts of the people are hugely influenced by religion. From the superstitious beliefs the citizens have in banning people from working on farmlands on Thursdays or fishing on/in the seas on Tuesdays, or payments of hundreds of thousands of Cedis made by a new breed of Charismatic Christians for a bottle of ”anointing oil” intended to solve all their spiritual problems, that in real life isn’t up to 10 Cedis, all sums up the obsession Ghanaians, Africans and the Black Race have with religion and it’s associated beliefs.
Born as a Christian into a traditional local community, I wouldn’t for a second, doubt the existence of a higher God or even a lesser god. We have all under one circumstance or the other believed and hoped that the bigger God or lesser god would intervene to solve one problem for us.
However, the over-reliance on God or a lesser god to solve ALL our problems, coupled with our obsession to label any minute logical challenge, ailment, financial difficulties, natural disasters and accidents as spiritual problems is becoming the foundation of lazy thinking, incompetence, insanity and an excuse to cover up for our failures as individuals, a nation and race as Africans.
When the Akosombo Dam dries up due to intense sunshine and lack of rainfall, we disturb God with prayers, calling for Him to shower us with rain, forgetting that God is not punishing us with the sun, but rather giving us an alternative to meet our energy demands through solar energy.
When our own foolishness to build on waterways and litter our drains with rubbish lead to flooding of our capital city, we have no shame shifting blame to a bunch of patriotic citizens who vigiled to demand an end to the energy crisis darkening Ghana, suffocating businesses, taking innocent lives and tearing families apart with joblessness
And we even had a government appointee and communicator, blaming dwarfs for the free fall of the Cedi and inflation in this 21st Century of China phones, fast foods and telenovelas dominating Ghana and Africa.
Though very young in life, my little experience has taught me that Ghanaians, Africans and the Black race are a bunch of spiritual freaks, constantly consistently and incessantly labelling all petty challenges as the works of unseen spiritual forces of darkness, hence their over reliance on God or a lesser god to solve all their problems (as earlier brushed on).
We hardly use our brains to solve our problems.
If Americans had considered the moon as the abode of demons, Neil Armstrong would never have landed on the moon or pave the way for space science revolution. Orville and Wilbur Wright would never have invented the 1st successful aeroplane had they believed in gods occupying the atmosphere and demons and witches flying at night. The world has gone past the stone age era of primitive thinking, over reliance on God or gods, blaming demons for our challenges and dwarfs for inflation. Americans are now using 3D printing to create virtually every material we are using. The Japanese are now using trains nearly at the speed of light to ease transportations and save time. The Chinese are taking over the world, supplying us with almost everything including chopsticks and catapults. We (Ghana) had independence with Malaysia in 1957, but they are centuries ahead of us.
The world is fast moving towards the pinnacle of science, technology and development, and they sure won’t wait for us. We must take RESPONSIBILITY for our actions, tackle our challenges from a scientific perspective and stop our stupid obsession with spirituality and religion as the source of our problems and the ONLY means to solving them.
Again, the God who created the Americans, Chinese and Arabians gave them brains and He gave us brains too; For we are children of no lesser God!!!
May God bless our homeland Ghana and make us wise and strong. God is great.
Written by Asante Philips Sakyi
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