Ghana is certainly a secular state with the two main faiths both Abrahamic, Christianity and Islam believing in the monotheism of God, the Omnipotent.
In the past decade or so some persons are using the cassock and the collar to prosecute their political projects thereby exposing the clergy to inappropriate commentaries.
No mortal can mock God….he is beyond any such enterprise and those who try it would fail in their tracks.
Some of them styling themselves as prophets have joined the political campaigns of politicians seeking to lead their parties spewing out divisive commentaries and prophecies. It is the time of the NPP now after which the NDC would also go through the rather acrimonious process of choosing who lead their grouping ahead of the 2028 polls.
It is time for these commercialized prophets to get busy and they indeed are seeking relevance from politicians in both dominant political parties of NPP and NDC.
They have found space on social media where they sell themselves so cheaply that our respected Men Of God get embarrassed that the Church is being dragged into such depths of immorality.
One of them even after President John Mahama dismissed any either of contravening the constitutional two terms for presidents has embarked upon a useless project of convincing the President that he has been told by God to consider such an untenable venture.
Evangelisation should be undertaken with a high sense of morality devoid of fictions and tendentiousness.
God’s ways are pure and those who enter the ministry for purely commercial reasons shall be exposed. All of a sudden a section of our ministers have found in flirting with political actors a great passion relishing it regardless of the repercussions thereof.
There are many challenges facing society some of them traceable to bad governance which such faltering ministers should take up with government. That they have rather taken up the route of sycophancy shows what they aim at achieving.
President Mahama understands the implications of such a constitutional breach and those who think that by throwing such garbage in the public space they can catch his attention they have missed the boat.
We have come a long way in our practice of democracy that such pranks will not get any traction here, not at all.
The Church cannot be extricated from politics, not at all, because after all the former exists not only to lead the flock to God but to ensure their wellbeing. When therefore bad governance which leads to poor living conditions of the people persists it is the duty of the clergy to call out such anomalies with a view to reversing them.
Where queries from the Church must be issued to effect reversals of bad policies let these be…praises which can serve as impetuses for continuous best governance practices should also be encouraged. These happily are being done by the Catholic Bishops, the Presbyterians and the Methodists in the fold of the Christian Council of Ghana.
Sycophancy should have no place in the house of God.
