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Christians in Africa must not deny their cultural identity - Bishop

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  • boka 9 years ago

    AMEN,

  • ELINAM 9 years ago

    The christian church is the gate keeper for western exploitative ways, and for the pastors playing ostrich in the sand smack of hypocrisy at best.
    The first thing the church does is to give you a European name under the gui ...
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  • DOBOO, MD. 9 years ago

    Excellent, Elinam. Ghanaians have been brainwashed for many decades to the extent that we are losing our critical thinking skills. Churches and mosques have sprung up all over the country miseducating the population. Preachin ...
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  • Another Thief of Bagdad 9 years ago

    When I see how Ghanaian Christian leadership glorify festivals like 'Christmas' - A PAGAN IDOLATORY FESTIVAL and VALENTINE DAY - another idolatrous festval introduced by a certain white 'saint'and look down on our festivals, ...
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  • CHARCOAL SELLER. 9 years ago

    How can Africans not have an identity crisis, when they are forced to worship a European image of their lord and saviour, and at the same time forget that the same Europeans built fleets of ships, kidnapped hundreds of millio ...
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  • SOJOURNER BRUISEED 9 years ago

    Who said Israel is the land of creation? instead of Iraq, the Mesopotamia or the garden of Aden. Know your stuff before you put junk on the air.Children are listening and they need to know truth.

    In case you want to know ...
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  • uu 9 years ago

    bIBLICAL DARKNESS IS LIKE jjrAulings skin color good and evil; the light is the opposition of christianity and the dark is where we all statrted from the womb of our mothers

  • Obaa-pa - USA 9 years ago

    Idol worshiping is our culture too, so shall we continue to worship our idols?

  • Aj 9 years ago

    Hi Elinam,we shouldn't make it sound like Christianity came from the Europeans wrong.Isreal itself is part of Africa and the oldest church in the world is in Ethiopia.the names in the bible are not European rather Hebrew name ...
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  • ELINAM 9 years ago

    I've read that book ten years ago and bought five and gave out to friends.
    You're preaching to the choir.
    All 'am saying is to Africanize the religion and live Europeans out of it as they're using it to exploit us to remai ...
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  • Jesse 9 years ago

    That is interesting assertion however not until idol worshiping is dealt with the true benefits of Christianity would not be achieved

  • ELINAM 9 years ago

    The wooden cross you hold so dearly is your idol. It is all depends on who is defining what an idol is. If you're conquered by another idol worshiper, he'd tell you what you have is an idol and you try and defeat him and reco ...
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  • Joe Moore 9 years ago

    you said it all even Jesus Christ we worship was a Blackman. but if you say this to an African they will kill you because they strongly believe the whiteman pictures we see everyday is the truthfully Jesus.

  • Kwadjo, London 9 years ago

    Where culture is defined as what?The church must proclaim the power in the name of Jesus for salvation comes by no other means but in his name and his name alone.

  • adumtumi nyansfuo 9 years ago

    Yes we shall go to church, but at the same time practice our culture. Very good

  • C.Stephen Sackey 9 years ago

    Elinam, you are the true oracle whose bones I'll die to pick for wisdom.
    How do I get in touch with you?
    Facebook?.

  • Nana Kuntumpaah III 9 years ago

    Throughout Africa, Christianity is under threat by Islamic fundamentalists and no Christian leader is bold enough criticise these pork eating , low esteemed , women raping, idiots like Boko haram, All we need is some funds ...
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  • me 9 years ago

    yes chritianity is under threat because of stupid people like u.with such comment in unrelated issue and u expect peace?it doesn't happen like that.peace is earned.pork?then u r insulting ur fellow chritians.

  • Joe Turkey 9 years ago

    Look around many the conflict zones around the world and tell me which one is not religion-related. And if God made man in his own image (as Christians want us to believe), why are different religions creating different image ...
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  • DOBOO, MD. 9 years ago

    JoeTurkey, the truth is that God is a myth and not real. There is no God and there is no heaven. The conquering Europeans and Arabs have already successfully imposed their Christian and Muslim religions on our ignorant Africa ...
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  • ekow nyame 9 years ago

    Prof I beg to differ. Your carnal minded based
    Speech has no biblical foundation. Christianity and the word of God has been watered by so called men of God like you. Because you've studied the bible from academic perspective ...
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  • Kwame Birmingham 9 years ago

    Exactly the kind of stuuupidity I was talking about, brainwashing fuuuul. Any body gets up today and they are bishops but even common bicycle you have to learn how to ride but not the bible and theology in Ghana. What knowled ...
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  • Idi Amin Dada 9 years ago

    THE AFRUCAN CHURCHES MUST LEARN TO POUR LIBATION AND PRAY TO GOD IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR CULTURE.

  • ekow nyame 9 years ago

    The issue here is that Christianity is a religion which has its holy reference book to be the bible. So the practice of this religion is based on the contents of the bible. This religion is not imposed on people. For that mat ...
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  • ekow nyame 9 years ago

    I visited Ghana and Kumasi last year during the first week in January and met with an elderly member of your church. During our discussions I told him that the man - imposed problems our country Ghana is faced with have their ...
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  • DOBOO, MD. 9 years ago

    Ekow, we don't have to wait for God to bring the thieves and nation wreckers to justice because we have waited for too long and it's not gonna happen that way. We must arrest, prosecute and incarcerate them all now. God is an ...
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  • Kwame Birmingham 9 years ago

    We threw our rich culture away and embrace that of an imperialist western culture. The whites demonized our religions and brought their inferior religion but because we are fools we have accepted it and our ancestors are now ...
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  • Joe Moore 9 years ago

    thank you. you have said it all.
    Africans keep going to church day and nights thinking God will come and help them succeed in life. while those who bring the Christianity are going to schools to study and works hard to ach ...
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  • ekow nyame 9 years ago

    Brother Kwame it's unfortunate of us blacks have cultivated the notion that because the bible was brought to our land from the white man's the contents therein is for and about the white man only. Unfortunately because most o ...
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  • Nana Bawuah 9 years ago

    You are the one who is lost! First of all Abosom are not man made beings, but the children of our GOD Nyame-Nyankopon-Odumankoma.Occultism or Idol worship its just a derogatory term, to deny the fact, tht we had a highly soph ...
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  • Kwame Birmingham 9 years ago

    I don't even understad what this ekow nyame is saying. Let us not go far just 18th century when the missionaries both the Basel and German missionaries came to the then Gold Coast they got to know that the natives already kne ...
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  • Real kebecois 9 years ago

    Pls I'm lost!! Somebody should explain to me our marriage customs and the white mans .. I'm really really lost and don't know what to do!! Nowadays when people perform their marriage rites to families, they say that, it isn't ...
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  • Nana Bawuah 9 years ago

    Customary marriage is required by law. What you do afterwards going to church or whatever is your own business. It is not necessary!

  • Kwame Birmingham 9 years ago

    What we call engagement is wrong. Customary marriage is the real marriage, white wedding, church wedding or whatever you call is just a choice but not necessary. It is waste of money and time

  • Real kebecois 9 years ago

    Thanks Kwame !!

  • Real kebecois 9 years ago

    Thank you nana for your help !! I was confused for a long time.

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Yes, Nana and Kwame are right. Our customary marriage is the absolute marriage. Going to the Church for the wedding is the latest additions from the West. You may choose to register your customary marriage at the courts.

  • Papa, Connecticut 9 years ago

    What the Biship is saying sounds very nice, but it is so far from the truth of the gospel. According to the word of a God, we are not from here, ....our citizenship is from above. Our culture is one of faith, our culture is t ...
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  • JOK 9 years ago

    i wish to know[ doboo md] i want to get in touch.you are the real deal