Oh No! They Are Superstitious As Well

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insight to the bone 11 years ago

here again we see the pepeni try to put cotton wool over our eyes again with his lies and cosmetic moves that solve nothing . as we speak right now there are hundreds of billions worth of projects and investors being frustrat ...
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here again we see the pepeni try to put cotton wool over our eyes again with his lies and cosmetic moves that solve nothing . as we speak right now there are hundreds of billions worth of projects and investors being frustrated by the ndc 419 politicians and not corrupt civil service as all they care about is thinking of various processes and procedures whose end result is bog down the investor so they can take money from the unaware. where is the bni , police and so called GAF now ,? they also participate in the corrupt crony system that further denies that initiatives of the citizens comes to fruition even if the govt remains incompetent , in short an impossible situation that will sooner or later create a fertile environment for war
PROPHET YEBOAH 11 years ago

YOU PEOPLE THINK BECAUSE YOU HAVE AN EDUCATION YOU UNDERSTAND THE THINGS OF GOD. THE WISDOM OF MAN IS FOOLISHNESS BEFORE THE LORD. PRAYER IS WHAT CAN HELP GHANA, NOT BY OUR MIGHT.

WITHOUT JESUS, WE ARE NOTHING. WE HAVE TO ...
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YOU PEOPLE THINK BECAUSE YOU HAVE AN EDUCATION YOU UNDERSTAND THE THINGS OF GOD. THE WISDOM OF MAN IS FOOLISHNESS BEFORE THE LORD. PRAYER IS WHAT CAN HELP GHANA, NOT BY OUR MIGHT.

WITHOUT JESUS, WE ARE NOTHING. WE HAVE TO PRAY AND FAST. IF IT MENAS GOING TO JERUSALEM TO SEEK THE FACE OF GOD, WE HAVE TO. GOD IS OUR ONLY HELP, NOT MAN, NOT THE WISDOM OF MAN, NOT UR PHD.
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

You said,"THE WISDOM OF MAN IS FOOLISHNESS BEFORE THE LORD."
The Lord gave man the wisdom so did she or he intentionally give man foolishness?

You said,"THE WISDOM OF MAN IS FOOLISHNESS BEFORE THE LORD."
The Lord gave man the wisdom so did she or he intentionally give man foolishness?
Ato 11 years ago

Another opportunist cheap Prophet grovelling and pandering to the whims of a corrupt govt. Prophet Yeboah, some of you have soiled the image of religion - the christian religion so badly that the title Prophet is now perceive ...
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Another opportunist cheap Prophet grovelling and pandering to the whims of a corrupt govt. Prophet Yeboah, some of you have soiled the image of religion - the christian religion so badly that the title Prophet is now perceived with ridicule and as a past-time of crooked and 'smart' bush boys. Perhaps this explains why there are as much as two or three churches on every pot-holed road in the shabby deprived and poor areas of Accra and one would need to drive around for several minutes before seeing a church in the more wealthy areas like Airport, East Legon and so on. Prophet Yeboah go and find a proper job and for Gods sake stop exploiting the vulnerability and the ignorance of the poor. If you dont you will be surprised that God Himself will punish each one of you charlatans.

As for you Kobina Baidoo, I think your article was excellent please come again. This country needs thinkers and writers like you. Some of us will gladly suffer the nonsense on Ghanaweb only if occasionally we can be comforted with such articles.
Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

This posting is a masterpiece. Unfortunately, those who have been brainwashed about Christianity would soon call him an atheist and an agent of Satan.

This posting is a masterpiece. Unfortunately, those who have been brainwashed about Christianity would soon call him an atheist and an agent of Satan.
NYAME BA 11 years ago

The Conjoined Twins And Mighty 'Men Of God’
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When I heard of the conjoined twins at Komfo Anokye hospital I wished this was in the time of Jesus. Peter and Mark would rush to the g ...
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The Conjoined Twins And Mighty 'Men Of God’
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When I heard of the conjoined twins at Komfo Anokye hospital I wished this was in the time of Jesus. Peter and Mark would rush to the great teacher and miracle worker screaming “Rabbi, Rabbi, you have to come quick, there are conjoined twins that need to be separated.” Jesus would rush to the home of the twins. The distraught mother of the twins would prostrate herself at the master’s feet crying uncontrollably. Jesus would walk to the bed and lay his hands on the babies. He would say a short prayer. Right before the eyes of the small crowd that had gathered, the tissues that joined the two babies would be heard separating. Not before long, it was done! The babies would be separated! The crowd would wonder and marvel and go away praising God.

Unfortunately, this is not the first century. Dr. Boateng Nimako and his team tried their very best at komfo Anokye, but the babies did not survive, probably because we do not have the medical equipment to keep them alive. Collectively, our heart is broken as a nation. Psychologically, we are defeated. We wanted to tell the world that our doctors are capable, that we have arrived, that we are not some banana republic. We wanted to celebrate with the parents and family of the babies. After the Black Stars painful elimination, this would have been a soothing balm to our bruised soul.

As a Christian, several questions come to my mind. Ghana has more prophets and pastors with big titles than any nation in the world, next to Nigeria. How come no prophet came forward to perform a miracle to separate the babies? My pastor says if you believe, you can perform miracles, just like Jesus did. Anytime there is a serious medical emergency like this one, our miracle-working pastors are nowhere to be found. Their best excuse is to ask us to pray for the doctors. They go back to performing their ‘miracles’ after it is all over.

The Yoruba prophet T. B. Joshua is known all over Africa through his Emmanuel TV, for performing “miracles” but when a case like this arises, he is missing in action, he is silent . There is a deafening silence among these prophets and pastors. Are their miracles only on TV? Where is Duncan-Williams and Mensah-Otabil? Where is Rev. Owusu-Bempah? Where are all the men of God?

Jesus performed many miracles. He fed 5,000 people with five loaves of bread. He spoke to a storm to calm down. He walked on water. He put back a soldier’s severed ear. How come no man of God is able to walk on water or calm the seas or put back an ear today? The only miracle these pastors perform is cast out demons. That’s it! They all claim to cast out demons- look for some psychologically disturbed individual and speak in tongues at them, sprinkle holy water on them and voila! You are a great prophet, a wondrous worker of miracles! Is it because this is one miracle everyone can fake? There is also the ubiquitous wheel chair miracle. There is never the healing of someone with withered and twisted legs. Always the person in a wheel chair forced to run across the stage. Can any of these men of God just perform some real miracle for once?

Are there miracles today? It would be great to see a man of God part the Volta into two like Moses did the Red Sea. What about a man of God command fire from heaven like Elijah? A really impressive one would be a man of God making a 90yr old woman have a baby like Abraham’s wife Sarah. God is the same, he does not change, as the Bible says, how come these miracles don’t happen through our so-called prophets today?

We are tired of the healing crusades where all these’ men of God’ do is pretend to cast out demons and make people with normal legs walk. If you note carefully, they never heal the people with twisted, broken legs. They all recycle the same old tired miracle tricks. These are not miracles, these are tricks to take money away from poor and sick people.

Our politicians, NDC or NPP, love these fake miracles because instead of us pressuring them for modern equipment and facilities at hospitals like Korle-Bu and Komfo Anokye, we put our hopes in miracles from the honey-coated lips of ‘men of God’. Instead of questioning the fat salaries of those in parliament, while our hospitals are death traps, we go to church and fast and pray and pay tithes and cower in the self-deluding belief that when there are conjoined twins, we can miraculously separate them in the name of Jesus.

By Kwame Asempa
K Danso 11 years ago

God's speed

God's speed
Kojo T 11 years ago

"The victims of this abominable practice, who succumb to their fears and ignorance, are illiterate, poor and destitute, and the beneficiaries do not fare any better. There are still enclaves in our society whose cultural prac ...
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"The victims of this abominable practice, who succumb to their fears and ignorance, are illiterate, poor and destitute, and the beneficiaries do not fare any better. There are still enclaves in our society whose cultural practices are so far behind it will even cause a believer in Trokosi to raise an eye brow" . Liberate yourself from ignorance. Ignorance is the worst form of slavery
Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

"What will compel a mother who has carried her precious daughter for nine months; then go through the indescribable experience of labour pains to bring her into the world, besides the real job of feeding, caring and dealing w ...
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"What will compel a mother who has carried her precious daughter for nine months; then go through the indescribable experience of labour pains to bring her into the world, besides the real job of feeding, caring and dealing with all the emotional trauma of nurturing, and having gone through all that thankless job only to hand her over to some illiterate octogenarian to abuse, and use her as a de facto slave under a system called Trokosi?"
Asomadu Sakyi 11 years ago

Do you really have something to do with your time? if there is a resident buffoon on Ghanaweb then you definitely qualify to be the one. You seem to hate everybody who writes better than you on this forum. Stop making an idio ...
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Do you really have something to do with your time? if there is a resident buffoon on Ghanaweb then you definitely qualify to be the one. You seem to hate everybody who writes better than you on this forum. Stop making an idiot of yourself for it doesn't befits you.
Mina 11 years ago

Why are you offended by this? Are you a trokosi?and then using an akan name with a wrong spelling of the first name.You people have a huge problem.

Why are you offended by this? Are you a trokosi?and then using an akan name with a wrong spelling of the first name.You people have a huge problem.
C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

So are the mass of Ghanaians! Superstition reins in Ghana supreme and the generality of Ghanaians are the subjects of abject superstitious beliefs and bloody ignorance! They get PhDs in even the natural sciences but their wor ...
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So are the mass of Ghanaians! Superstition reins in Ghana supreme and the generality of Ghanaians are the subjects of abject superstitious beliefs and bloody ignorance! They get PhDs in even the natural sciences but their world view or cosmogony is just as primitive and primordial as that of their illiterate peasant parents or grandparents!

I started on the Okyeame forum in the 1990s a one-man campaign against the excruciating superstition and ignorance afflicting fellow Ghanaians but many thought it was funny. Most plainly said I was blaspheming.

Mills elevated that superstition to to the site of govt. In my Staying in the Frying article, one of my wish lists for elected President Mills was to cut off that nonsense from the Castle but it obviously fell on deaf ears. Those of us who are rationally minded and not in the clutches of superstition and the stupendous ignorance afflicting them have no choice now than to embark on a task of redeeming Ghanaians from their clutches and all those charlatans posing as pastors and prophets!

Andy-K
Kwame Safo 11 years ago

Sad is it not that issues that are periphery are the min focus of those whole role is to lead our nation. Where is vision, where is direction. Where is our senseof mission. We urge our leaders to get serious Ghana needs visio ...
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Sad is it not that issues that are periphery are the min focus of those whole role is to lead our nation. Where is vision, where is direction. Where is our senseof mission. We urge our leaders to get serious Ghana needs visionaries. The world has moved on and the leadership model today requires creative thinkers. Mr President please get serious and stop meddling in trivialities! We pray God's help for you to focus on improving our lives. That's what you are in governement for!
Kwaku 11 years ago

Who cares about you long articles, how best are you able to develop the manpower in Ashanti? You only produce shoe shine boys

Who cares about you long articles, how best are you able to develop the manpower in Ashanti? You only produce shoe shine boys
Asomadu Sakyi 11 years ago

Are your washmen and Kayayos better than the shoeshine boys? Better be a shoeshine boy than to be a trokosi retired supreme court judge who cannot afford 'attakwame' home but live in government bungalow without paying rent

Are your washmen and Kayayos better than the shoeshine boys? Better be a shoeshine boy than to be a trokosi retired supreme court judge who cannot afford 'attakwame' home but live in government bungalow without paying rent
Mina 11 years ago

You are a stupid trokosi filled with Ashanti hate.The shoe shine boys are better off than an educated trokosi who has no where to put his heard after so many years of service and still depend on the Government.Those in govern ...
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You are a stupid trokosi filled with Ashanti hate.The shoe shine boys are better off than an educated trokosi who has no where to put his heard after so many years of service and still depend on the Government.Those in government too are there to steal what they haven't got.Akans are the soul of Ghana,all resources come from us.You will one day regret joining this land called Ghana because of your enviness and hatred.
TRUE GHANAIAN 11 years ago

Fraud is the middle name of "YOU PEOPLE"

Fraud is the middle name of "YOU PEOPLE"
Mina 11 years ago

Stealing is the first name of you people.Nana is supreme and you hate him for nothing.You call yourself true ghanaian hahahahahaha you have no ID and place.Miserable soul.

Stealing is the first name of you people.Nana is supreme and you hate him for nothing.You call yourself true ghanaian hahahahahaha you have no ID and place.Miserable soul.
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

Husband takes his wife to play her first game of golf..... Unfortunately, the wife promptly whacked her first shot right through the window of the biggest house adjacent to the course.

The husband cringed, 'I warned you t ...
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Husband takes his wife to play her first game of golf..... Unfortunately, the wife promptly whacked her first shot right through the window of the biggest house adjacent to the course.

The husband cringed, 'I warned you to be careful! Now we'll have to go up there, find the owner, apologize and see how much your lousy drive is going to cost us.'

So the couple walked up to the house and knocked on the door. A warm voice said, 'Come on in.'

When they opened the door they saw the damage that was done: glass was all over the place, and a broken antique bottle was lying on its side near the broken window.

A man reclining on the couch asked, 'Are you the people that broke my window?'

'Uh...yeah, sir. We're really sorry about that,' the husband replied.

'Oh, no apology is necessary. Actually I want to thank you... You see e, I'm a genie , and I've been trapped in that bottle for a thousand years. Now that you've released me, I'm allowed to grant three wishes. I'll give you each one wish, but if you don't mind, I'll keep the last one for myself.'
Wow, that's great!' the husband said. He pondered a moment and blurted out, 'I'd like a million dollars a year for the rest of my life.'

'No problem,' said the genie 'You've got it, it's the least I can do. And I'll guarantee you a long, healthy life!' 'And now you, young lady, what do you want?' the genie asked.

'I'd like to own a gorgeous home complete with servants in every country in the world,' she said.

'Consider it done,' the genie said. 'And your homes will always be safe from fire, burglary and natural disasters!'

'And now,' the couple asked in unison, what's your wish, genie?'

'Well, since I've been trapped in that bottle and haven't been with a woman in more than a thousand years, my wish is to have sex with your wife.'

The husband looked at his wife and said, 'Gee, honey, you know we both now have a fortune, and all those houses What do you think?'

She mulled it over for a few moments and said, 'You know, you're right. Considering our good fortune, I guess I wouldn't mind, but what about you, honey?'

'You know I love you sweetheart,' said the husband. I'd do the same for you!' So the genie and he woman went upstairs where they spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying each other in every way. After about three hours of non-stop sex, the genie rolled over and looked directly into her eyes and asked, 'How old are you and your husband?'

'Why, we're both 35,' she responded breathlessly.

' NO Shit .' He said, 'Thirty-five years old and you both still believe in genies?'
Nana Opeimu Ababio I 11 years ago

Everyone will catigate the President from this matter to their nail braking off thier finger nails because he is the president and every Ghanaian expect him the president to perfom miracles to change their lives.
For this re ...
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Everyone will catigate the President from this matter to their nail braking off thier finger nails because he is the president and every Ghanaian expect him the president to perfom miracles to change their lives.
For this reason he will also look up to the sky for help. If there is a religious man, or to say a "self style man of God" around he the president will look to him for help. I listen to our pastors, mallams, and the jujumen on radio and I ask myself are Ghanaians a bunch of idiots to be woodwink to follow these fake men of gods?
Governments all over the world do not have a business to finance any faith base religion; not christianity, not islam or any other faith. You listen to our government officials, political leaders, and everyone in a position of trust, they all bring thier personal faith to their offices and pretend they are so religious. Ask yourself who are the most corrupt individuals in our society? They are the politicians, government officials and the people of power including our traditional leaders. They look for their self interests instead of the interest of the people. Today is Sunday Easter Sunday, look at the people everyone is going to church or a place of worship to listen to who? The corrupt pastors. today is a bonaza for the religious men to double thier intake from the weak and helpless, uneducated and the feeble minds. In short, please do not take the president to wood shed it has been going before his arrived he will need a great deal of courage to change that it is easier for him to follow a bad tradition for fear of castigation. Change your thinking and I will change mine thinking to make the whole nation change. Sad!
K Danso 11 years ago

It is sad, isn't it?

It is sad, isn't it?
SYLVANUS 11 years ago

DO YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT TROKOSI IS? GREAT FOOL. THAT PRACTICE I'M TOLD, HAVE BEEN INSTITUTED TO SERVE AS CHECKS ON THE LAZY TYPES LIKE YOU WHO PREY ON OTHERS PROPERTY, COMMIT TORT, by tort, I MEAN SLANDER OTHERS, COMMITS ATR ...
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DO YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT TROKOSI IS? GREAT FOOL. THAT PRACTICE I'M TOLD, HAVE BEEN INSTITUTED TO SERVE AS CHECKS ON THE LAZY TYPES LIKE YOU WHO PREY ON OTHERS PROPERTY, COMMIT TORT, by tort, I MEAN SLANDER OTHERS, COMMITS ATROCITIES, WHICH THE GOOD OLD BOOK ALSO ABHORS, AGAINST ANOTHER PERSON AND THE INJURED SEEKS RELIEF FROM THE OFFENDER, THE END RESULT IS WHAT IS NOTED AS TROKOSI. IF YOU ARE BRAVE ENOUGH AS YOU WANT THE WORLD TO PERCIEVE YOU, COME TO THE TROKOSI LAND AND SLANDER, STEAL FROM A NON CHRISTIAN, I MEAN SOMEONE NOT BORN AGAIN, WHO WONT GIVE IT TO GOD TO JUDGE AND YOU WILL SURELY KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO OFFENDERS FAMILIES AND VIRGIN SISTERS, THEN YOU WOULD BE IN BETTER POSITION TO UNDERSTAND WHAT TROKOSI MEANS. FOOL.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 11 years ago

This is my condition. Has that sysyem of cruelty stopped stealing in your Trokosi Land as you eloquently put it. If you answer yes, then I will come.

Thank you

This is my condition. Has that sysyem of cruelty stopped stealing in your Trokosi Land as you eloquently put it. If you answer yes, then I will come.

Thank you
Jackie Anane 11 years ago

If he thinks that because petty stealing they should keep their society poor, that is his cup of tea. Don't worry yourself Philip.

If he thinks that because petty stealing they should keep their society poor, that is his cup of tea. Don't worry yourself Philip.
Jackie Anane 11 years ago

The comment was meant for Mr Baidoo's comment: Re: come 2 Trokosi land.

The comment was meant for Mr Baidoo's comment: Re: come 2 Trokosi land.

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