Efya Nokturnal, recently said ‘have s*x and be happy whether premarital or not‘. Whatever prompted Efya to make those comments out the blues is not known but the sultry singer talking about s*x is very usual for her.
However, based on our publication, Citi Fm’s Jessica Opare Saforo has expressed her unique opinion on premarital s*x using religion as the yardstick.
Wanlov the Kubolor has said that he took his son out of the school he was in because few days after joining, he started coming home singing ‘useless’ Christian songs.
The notoriously controversial star, who has made criticism of religion something of a bulwark, said at that moment he knew he had to take his son out of that school.
Mzbel shocked many a few years ago when she declared that she did not believe in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the central figure in the Christian religion.
Despite enormous backlash, she has not gone back on that opinion and in fact, has reiterated it in a recent interview.
Hiplife artiste Kofi B claims that the recent lynching of an army officer in Denkyira-Obuasi is not merely a physical event but it has a spiritual source as well.
The sad story of the slain officer has led to questions over what exactly is wrong with our nation, and here comes Kofi B to demonstrate exactly that.
A follower of the traditionalist religions in Ghana and a certified anthropologist, Osofo Ahadzi, has fired back at the Christian preacher who said traditional activities such as the ban on noisemaking impedes on the freedom of religion of Christians.
An animated Ahadzi, speaking on Class Fm, said Rev Sam Korankye Gary has no locus to speak about religion because Christianity is a false religion and the bible is the greatest book of lies ever to be published.
Dr Charles Wereko Brobbey, popularly known as Tarzan, has revealed that he is not particularly religious in the strictest sense of the word, saying the structures of organised religions are too rigid.
Tarzan was interviewed on Starr Chat Wednesday by Bola Ray and passed his comments on the show.
There is a problem with hypocrisy deeply embedded within the fabric of most religions, which starts from the process of ‘cherry-picking’ – by which the religious go through their holy books and adhere to some laws and ignore others.
A great example is the Christian attitude to divorce and homo-s*xuality. Jesus ranted and raved about divorce and never mentioned the gays – but Christians, who claim we now live under the ‘grace’ of Jesus, hate gays with a passion yet get divorced themselves all the time with no compunction.
Christianity remains one factor that we assume is supposed to unite people but rather it divides more than any other religion.
Within this one religion, there are Sunday worshippers, Saturday worshippers among others. Even among the Sunday worshippers, there are those who worship with bare feet, some use statues, some don’t eat certain things and they all have one source,”The Bible,” to justify their belief.
From BrutallyUncensored.Com
It’s absurd how the medieval crime of blasphemy continues to play strong roles in certain communities of a 21st century civilisation—notably in the self-acclaimed Islamic states or communities.
On the back of this crime, authorities who claim to be acting on behalf of a celestial father—be it the Islamic Allah or the rarely Christian God continue to kill others for saying a word or two which they think their merciful invisible father would found appalling.
The many times I’ve had people tell me they will have nothing to lose if they believe in the existence of God, that’s even if it turns out to be false on death, I’ve always pointed it to them that; what about the many we keep killing in the name of this God, the unending atrocities religion champions despite evidence showing it’s highly probable that Gods does not exist?
When it comes to killing people for hurting the feelings of God, the Islamic state of Saudi Arabic is a leader in this business—and it’s Sharia laws allow for some heinous acts to freely flourish. Just in 2015, Saudi Arabia carried out at least 157 executions, “with beheadings reaching their highest level in the kingdom in two decade.”
Running a whole country on the back of a primitive set of laws assumed to have been enacted for mankind by a God through a 7th century illiterate prophet is ridiculously pathetic, but to slaughter other human beings because of the lack of tolerance on the part of this God or for what they call blasphemy is supremely insane.
‘Has Human Rights Achieved More Than Religion’, was the debate I was watching this morning. And I found it laughable that anyone would argue against such a self evident statement. Because religion is manmade; and because the great monotheistic traditions are particularly old and reflect the values of the time; women, minorities, and contrarians are … Read more
In Ghana, we take a lot of what we’re told literally and on faith. Often even though there comes a time that we have the ability to verify what we’ve been told independently, we choose not to do so. Because personally I’ve found a thorough, honest evaluation of most of what you’ve learnt as part … Read more
I honestly cannot remember half of what I learnt in school, mostly because it was ‘chew and pour’ all the way. And as they say ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’, I never saw any reason to revise my learning methods because I kept passing my exams.
Yet one thing I never forgot, even though it was something we learnt in our first year of school, was a sociology lecture on social institutions. One reason is because as a journalist I’m intimately interested in sociology, but the larger reason was that it struck a chord with me that from that day changed how I viewed all social institutions, religion in particular.
The gist of that lesson was that social institutions are structures put in place by man to make living easier. The official definition is something much classier than this, of course, but this is what I remember and what I’ve kept in my head all these years.
What does that mean? It means that throughout history humankind has always come up with innovative ways to skirt any particular vexing problem. And in that capacity you have to admit the genius of us humans, because we have a capability for adaptability that has ensured our survival as a species for millennia.
In the early days of man, the hunter-gatherer stage, it was mostly survival of the fittest. Yet the species would never have survived that status quo for a sustained stage, cue the formation of the social institution of family.
The family look out for each other, ensuring a higher chance of survival as a unit than the individual possesses. This led to communities springing up, which in turn necessitated the formation of government.
There have always been unexplainable phenomena in the history of man, and as the curious creature man is there has to be an explanation for everything. Initially superstition catered for that, with the belief in witches and wizards and other forms of superstition that attempted to explain away the unexplainable.
Eventually religion sprung up as the social institution in charge of explaining the unexplainable. Organised religion came up with the perfect answer, attributing everything remotely unexplainable to the presence of an all encompassing, omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient deity.
You have to admit it’s the perfect solution, no matter whatever woes you go through it is okay, because it is all part of the grand plan of the aforementioned omnipotent deity. There is little you can do to question these plans for you, no matter how little you like them. Perhaps you can bring more sacrifices, both to the deity and his representatives here on Earth, but once again there is no guarantee of success, just that your faith tells you you must try.
Back in school I wondered why religion was listed as one of the social institutions, considering that the others were all the product of the genius of man as a species. Then it hit me, that perhaps the answer was just as simple as this; that perhaps religion is also the product of man.
