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Religion is part of our culture - Bishop Akwasi Sarpong

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  • Ekow Arthur 10 years ago

    The Archbishop operates more as an anthropoligist (which he is) than a theologian. A critical reading of the Hebrew and Greek scriptures clearly offers the concept of monotheism. The works of Wofa Akwasi always caters to ever ...
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  • KAFUI KAETOZENA 10 years ago

    He is catholic because, like many of us we have been brainwashed for far too long, and it is not going to go away any time soon! Five years or so ago, the British queen went to a Buddhist temple by removing her shoes! She nev ...
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  • Guy Mmoasem 10 years ago

    There was time when humans lived in caves and hunted animals and ate wild fruits.Some humans still live in caves in Pakistan and Afghanistan as well as the Southern Sudan.This book should make interesting reading in exposing ...
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  • ELINAM 10 years ago

    If the Japanese had colonized Ghana, do you think you by your own power would had been a christian and feels that's all to religion? No, you would have had the same zeal an islamists have in say, a Nigerian in Kano or Malia ...
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  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    Keep quiet about somebody cultures,if
    you go Rom, do as Romans do.

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    This controvacy is hatched by Satan
    and the various cultures are his
    children they not set by God.Let us
    be careful about talking about Nature,
    mind your own Business.

  • Musa Kano 10 years ago

    Eclecticism (a theory or practice that combines doctrines or methods from diverse sources) has never been a viable option for God's people in the bible. Our uniqueness as God's people is seen in the provisions he (God) has ...
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  • TDK tape 10 years ago

    Who wrote the bible, and which culture was the context based on? Bible is not for us, Religion and culture cannot be separated. Christianity is based on a foreign culture. The great stupids will never get over the generations ...
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  • Musa Kano 10 years ago

    I agree with you that Christianity is a foreign culture, mainly Jewish. "for salvation is of the Jews" (John 4:22b).

    Who is the power behind Christianity?

    "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten S ...
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  • ELINAM 10 years ago

    Christianity for jews? Boy you are lost. The so-called jew is not a christian. Know that. He practices judhaism . Christianity is a religion formed by Europeans.

  • Jhorna 10 years ago

    Elinam, NPP needs to come to power so we can have free JSS!

  • Musa Kano 10 years ago

    (Joh 1:11,26; 7:28). For salvation is from the Jews (hoti hê sôtêria ek tôn Ioudaiôn estin). "The salvation," the Messianic salvation which had long been the hope and guiding star of the chosen people (Lu 1:69,71,77; Ac ...
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  • KOMFO ANOYE 10 years ago

    RELIGION IS POLITICS AND MAN MADE. CHRISTIANITY IS A FOREIGN DOCTRINE.

  • Asemoooo 10 years ago

    The bible is for us and it is about us. Read Deut 28 about the blessing and curses then compare with recent history then you'll know who it's talking about. not the so-called jew-sh people. For they say they are jews but are ...
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  • Ken Ntiamoa 10 years ago

    God is God and you know Him and worship him whether you are a Christian or not.

    God is known by different names by diffrent cultures around the word.

    If the Jews call God Yahweh and people in my village call him by some ...
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  • VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR 10 years ago

    Yes it matters how you call God. As I have said it before you do not need to recall yahweh or jehovah again in the days of Jesus Christ the name that give new direction to God. All christians should use Jesus Christ instead t ...
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  • VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR 10 years ago

    This is where born agains got their lambhood from. We become lamb of God through Jesus Christ, because Jesus is the lamb of GOD DIRECTLY.

    bIN lADEN IS LAMB BY HIMSELF PUNISHING OTHERS OF THEIR INFEDELITY. Where did he got ...
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  • VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR 10 years ago

    I am not alquaeda to be part of 9/11 act.
    I am not USA citizen, not a military person. JUST BECAUSE OF MY SKIN COLOR i have to be the dark in revelation 13, which talks about superpowers.

    Iam born again christian, yet the ...
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  • Till Zion 10 years ago

    Right on, Kafui!!

  • The African Patriot 10 years ago

    Well done, my brother. I´m very much happy to see people evaluating the mess of christianity in our mith.
    The soul of black African people went to the dog and it seems like it not gonna end soon. We have a wonderful religio ...
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  • Guy Mmoasem 10 years ago

    When Anthropologists look at culture
    via belief systems,the causality factor is more scientific than the metaphysical explanations rooted in ignorace. I have not read the book but the euro-centric cultural imperialistic appr ...
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  • TDK Tape 10 years ago

    "his religious views are neither Jewish nor Christian"

    That is the whole point. He subscribes to PLURALITY of religions. Archbishop Sarpong is one of few select, top intellectuals in the country, and the best indepemdent t ...
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  • kululu 10 years ago

    The Archbishop is a great man. he holds lots of knowledge and wisdom but in silence. His utterances are not for mass consumption but for the soul searching intellectual few.

  • praying man 10 years ago

    God bless our homeland Ghana. And make our nation great and strong.

  • Guy Mmoasem 10 years ago

    Religion in any form of practice has mythical origins. The Talmud/Torah's narrative of humans and a Creator is a great creative invention of human mind.We have been told of others belief cultures while the Ghanaian and Africa ...
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  • ELINAM 10 years ago

    You are mixing everything here. People who pour libation can build roads if they are taught right to think for themselves.
    To dig for gold and turn it into an ornament is a technology. And the African had done this very we ...
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  • The African Patriot 10 years ago

    Mr. Elinam! Although am not fully one with argumentation, i still want to thank you for the education you are giving us through your reasons. But what thing is very clear or unclear or uncommunicated is, If one does not have ...
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  • Asiwome 10 years ago

    I have a problem with people who think that technology has all the answers. We all know what industrialization has done. According to reports 47% of Americans are on some form of government assistance. We need religion to hel ...
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  • hawwa 10 years ago

    who is more guided some one who belives that there is something for the creation of the universe or some one who dont believe.

  • Asiwome 10 years ago

    Someone is either trying to make trouble for the bishop or sell us moral relativism. The Bible has no room for relativism, those who satisfy their whims without regard to the laws of God are destroyed.

  • ELINAM 10 years ago

    Ekow ,go read my comment under similar headline.
    If the Japanese had colonized us, wouldn't you had been a buddhist and proclaimed the buddha as the only way? Do you think you could have been a so-called christian by your ...
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  • mensah 10 years ago

    Monotheism does not mean ethnic monopoly of religion, whether the particular ethnicity is european or jewish.

  • ghanaba 10 years ago

    where in the bible did God advocate for female circumcision? you guys must stop your bla bla bla. stop infuriating us for God in his wisdom, has given us a wonderful pope. keep quiet, empty vessels and let God use him to brin ...
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  • Monthy Python 10 years ago

    It doesn't make any sense, illogical thoughts in many things. Africans are totally confused; been enslaved in their human resources (slaved traded), mental enslavement (still not aware of who there are) and still living in th ...
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  • Nana Bawuah 10 years ago

    When did Christians start practice male circumcision? This is a tradition of the Akan (Hebrew-Aramaic) folk. Upon all our stolen religious culture and civilization of us, they (Western Christianity and the Western World) stil ...
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  • Monthy Python 10 years ago

    Also the white race was for a long term duped from their leaders. Now Earth humanity consciousness is awaken seeking for the real truth, but for the mass it will take some decades to realize the real truth about the God insan ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Nana, just ignore them because they have been so much brainwashed that nothing that you say can convince them.
    I am a Christian but also believe that African Traditional Religion should not be looked down upon. After all, i ...
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  • VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR 10 years ago

    The Catholic Archbishop of Kumasi, Emeritus Peter Akwasi Sarpong, is advocating for the acceptance of plurality of religions, saying “religion is part of our culture otherwise it is not a religion.”

    Look at his dressin ...
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  • VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR 10 years ago

    Your headgear and the stick you carry is bigger than that of Moses himself and BIN LADEN'S the lamb in Rev:13.

    The Lord Jesus did not carry any stick, he was free flow in his walking.

  • VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR 10 years ago

    ANTI-CHRIST IS OPPOSING JESUS CHRIST AUTHORITY and if a person do not accept HIM why the person worry when some says the persons are anti-christ?

    If some tells I am anti mohammed, I am not going to sweat about it. Anti-po ...
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  • Asemoooo 10 years ago

    Wow, beautifully said. Nyame Nhyira wo. U are wise!!!!

  • SolJa 10 years ago

    you sure can say anything about religion.i have no problem with that.im a much younger man than yourself,and i aint no leader.im supposed to learn from people like you so i can make myself better and the society i be better.
    ...
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  • KAA 10 years ago

    Religion can be defined as a deification of a culture and as such it is often geographic in nature.Name a religion and people reactivate their geographic bearings to locate the named religion.Organised religion e.g catholicis ...
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  • nii 10 years ago

    very sensible stuff but should have added that what we demonise today called juju is holy and godly except when used for bad things.everybody or groups mawu brings on earth,he manifests himself to.we dont need to believe in t ...
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  • Nana 10 years ago

    What is your point? were all these rantings necessary? You got lost in your write up

  • SolJa 10 years ago

    you intend to show me the way or you'll just pen one sentence?

  • Christian Baidoo 10 years ago

    My opinion... Unless Religion is native, it could be obliterated by culture.
    Culture is dynamic and should be viewed as enhancing instead of compromising the native religion. We cannot choose to maintain our cultural values ...
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  • Guy Mmoasem 10 years ago

    Trying to philosophize about a myth is funny to me as it reinforces the culture of ignorance visited on our African peoples.What in the world are we up to 2013 years after a DEAD MAN
    called Yesus Christos? Indded some of the ...
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  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 10 years ago

    A typical example is western countries support for gays and lesbians but declare polygamy as backward and illegal even though they accept that a man can marry and still have 'mistresses'.What a hypocrisy!!Anyway can't male c ...
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  • EZEKIEL 10 years ago

    Religion IS PART of our culture BUT Christianity is NOT!
    We knew God BEFORE Christianity was brought to our shores!!

  • Ghana Children Murdered by theCorrupt 10 years ago

    Ok ok, do you not know that Ghanaian/black bigots are the loudest complainants about racism? Motherfucker bigots.

    And why do our Sakawa "Prophets" keep accepting bribe money and other ill-gotten wealth as tithe? Why can't ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    ARE U SAYIG THAT RACISM DOSENT EXIST? FOOL

  • Ghana Children Murdered by theCorrupt 10 years ago

    Man/woman,

    I like your baby style of questioning, then concluding (before an answer comes along): "Are you say that racism doesn't exist?" Reminds me of Class 1. "Fool" reminds me of drunken louts.

    Being a victim of rac ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 10 years ago

    RELIGION IS NOT CULTURE...

  • KK Boyeham 10 years ago

    Listen to another idiot who equates culture with worshiping idols. Culture is what an ethnic group has done for a time that has its own acceptable norms and practices. Most of the cultures have religion at their center, and ...
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  • Campus MInistry Report 10 years ago

    It is important to examine cultures in the light of the WORD of God.

    Every society has its cultural practises, and these are beliefs and customs often handed down by means of oral tradition.

    In anycase, cultures from so ...
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  • KAFUI KAETOZENA 10 years ago

    If indeed he believes that religion is cultural centred, then what is our culture, and what is our religion? Surely enough, he is right, but why do you supplant your values, culture and indeed our religion - which is part of ...
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  • VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR 10 years ago

    You are hundred percent informed.

  • VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR 10 years ago

    THEREFORE:

    LOVE OUTSIDE SALVATION IS WORLDLY(DOGGY LIVES).

    FAITH OUTSIDE SALVATION IS RELIGIOUS(ANTI-CHRIST BELIEVES).

    SALVATION BECOMES TRUE CHRISTIANITY WITH LOVE,FAITH,HOPE,UNITY,GRACE,GLORY OF THE LORD GOD. THE G ...
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  • Asiwome 10 years ago

    We have problems in our culture that Christianity addresses, although the robe(garb) may not be part of the solution, we have to examine issues such as backbiting, envy, jealousy and pride in light of Christianity. Also at th ...
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  • OBURUMANKUMA 10 years ago

    there is no reason ghanaians should be looking down on other ghanaians because of where they were born and their culture such as northerners or ewes cultures

    ...this usually done by ashantis..so Bishop should talk to his ...
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  • Chabba 10 years ago

    I have a lot of respect for Bishop Sarpong but I vehemently disagree with him that we have to accept the plurality of religions. Is he advocating for syncretism? It is true every culture has some positive sides but there also ...
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  • EXSITENTIALIST 10 years ago

    GOD HAS REVEALED HIMSELF TO HUMANITY IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF CREATION. GOD MAKING HIMSELF KNOWN TO HUMANITY IS CALLED REVELATION. GOD'S REVELATION IS PERFECT. HUMANITY'S RESPONSE TO GOD OR GOD'S REVELATI ...
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  • KB 10 years ago

    The irony of arguing for pantheism while showing a clear preference for a monotheistic, specifically male god! How do you know it is you singular he-god that is revealing himself to other people in different ways?

  • KK Boyeham 10 years ago

    Do not put words into the mouth of the guy; he never suggested syncretism. If you do not have a fuller understanding of a word, do not use it to show your ignorance, please.

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  • BAARO 10 years ago

    DEAR NANA SARPONG, BRAVO! APART FROM THE FACT THAT YOU TOUCH ON CRUCIAL ISSUES THAT CALL FOR DEEP REFLECTION AND REFORM, BEGINNING FROM THE MIND, YOU HELP REVEAL FICKLE MINDEDNESS AND SOME INSANITY IN PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY KN ...
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  • VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR 10 years ago

    Writing in the forum is another kind of publishing.Stop limiting your abilities in cologuial world.

    Modern world goes beyond paper. We have tablts,ipots,cell phones, computers in numerous forms to publish.

  • POPE 1 10 years ago

    He is referring to his Ashanti Antoa nyame voodoo.

  • Nana Bawuah 10 years ago

    First of all its "Asante" (derived from Esa/Asa nti Fo) and not Ashanti. Secondly, Vodoo or Vodun means Spirit in the Fon and Ewe language, its a leigitmate indigenious African religion, but its not an Akan religion. Thirdly, ...
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  • HENRY 10 years ago

    I like your explanation. However, from what you are saying why aren't Asantes worshiping "The Supreme Being of the Akan people"? Hello!!!

    Even Bishop Akwasi Sarpong has chosen to worship a foreign God (the whitema's God).

  • Nana Bawuah 10 years ago

    The ethnos of all missionaries in Africa included the adoption of Western culture as a necessary stage in the process of conversion to Christianity and forcing non-Christians into submission of Christianity and its contermino ...
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  • Dr Robert K Glah 10 years ago

    The Good News of Jesus Christ transcends all culture and inconsistencies. Let us be clear over confusion

  • American 10 years ago

    And to think that a man who survived the seven years of postgraduate education to become a priest could speak such illiteracy as this:

    "...Female circumcision for example, in many non-African countries is referred to as fe ...
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  • Anaba, china 10 years ago

    i don't place any religion above the other. all religions are for good.
    however, my biggest problem is africans trying use religion and spiritualism to solve their everyday problems instead of common sense, science and tec ...
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  • Kofi Basabasa 10 years ago

    If you know what culture is, why don't
    ask your priests to desist from sprinkling water on the foreheads of new born babies and force Biblical names on them? God's prophets were all Jews likewise the Apostles. How many moder ...
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  • kwasi 10 years ago

    Mr. Arthur, Do you realize the mistake you are making? Plurality of religions is not the same as polytheism.

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    It is a fact that Europe before the introduction of Christianity had polytheism, which belief in many gods. Monotheism means the belief in one god. The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights uphold the right of every pers ...
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  • Atobra 10 years ago

    For decades, there has been rumors that the Archbishop has fathered children "secretly". True or not, it sounds to me that he is struggling to break free of the almost impossible way of life the Roman Catholic Church imposes ...
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  • Salam FGJ 10 years ago

    I agree with Bishop Sarpong; and want to add that the principle for religious tolerance is to discard the idea that a religion is divine. But rather see religion as an IDEAL way of life for its followers. This is simply becau ...
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  • nii 10 years ago

    bishop akwasi sarpong should be truthful to tell us that christianity and its forgery mill,the bible,is criminal,fatal attraction and a lethal weapon of mass destruction.

  • Yaw Sarfo 10 years ago

    So Archbishop how do you see same sex marriage as practiced in the West not as in Ghana or Africa? Does it also mean you favor the practice of Trokosi in Ghana since it is the culture of a group of Ghanaians?

  • nii 10 years ago

    whats wrong with you?you think if the bible would make you men of god the europeans would have given it to you?what mawu gave is what u despise and call satanic.if trokosi hadnot been interfered with all these 500 years of pi ...
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  • Kwame Atakora 10 years ago

    How can you talk about African culture and religion and make no reference or mention of the pioneer, the gaint of African religion, Dr. Kwabena Damuah, the champion of African religion. He is seen around the world as the fi ...
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  • Gabe 10 years ago

    I haven't read the archbishop's book but this article really worries me. So far as I'm concerned there has always been interplay between religion and common sense. Just as the early days of Catholicism saw atrocities and brut ...
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