When the shepherd is lost

Would we as a people go to heaven if the call came in today?
Religion is a way of life. Religion is an opioid that is addictive. Now you know when you are addicted to a substance or something you see nothing wrong with that. You will do all to defend its use. So has religion become for some and it is sad to think that the very educated or enlightened who should lead the charge with questions rather defend the most useless of thoughts and actions.

It is sad that some of the so called men of God have taken this myopic fanaticism to heart and in turn hypnotized their church members. The state of hypnotism is so bad that instead of church members glorifying God they tend to worship these leaders. These leaders attribute to themselves unimaginable powers with which they protect church members. No wonder we have names and pictures flying all over the place without reverence to the Creator whom we worship. No wonder these leaders engage in business ventures that invariably fail and church members are left to suffer.

Some of these shepherds have failed for dividing their flock. The spread of wanton gossip and malicious expending of church funds coupled with favoritism is a canker eating away the piety of some of these shepherds. The love of material things has clouded their very ability to be in tune with the creator. When one attempts to point this out discreetly, one is threatened with generational curses, name calling and even possible redeployment from this world.

If the educated, enlightened and even the high and mighty elite will not call a spade a spade and would rather be in bed with these charlatans, thinking that is their way to heavenly eternity, then it falls on us pragmatic thinkers to rise up against this cancerous trend that is steadily eating away at our very core of a people as Ghanaians irrespective of our locus.

It is our God given right to think and ask ‘how, why, and really?’ Bob Marley urges us on with the words “Get up, stand up, don’t give up the fight’

~knm