Is material Christianity afflicting the present Ghanaian society?
Luigi Pirandello, the Italian world famous dramatist of ‘Six Characters In Search of Author fame’ who won the prestigious Nobel Prize for world literature in 1934, once remarked, “it is amusing to see christians going to church on Sundays.”
Pirandello, the great twentieth century Italian dramatist, wrote profoundly about philosohical problems.
One will wonder why Pirandello made this kind of statement about christians.
It is crystal clear that as a philosopher and a writer, Pirandello might have observed the myriad of ills, vices and immoralities that prevailed in the Italian society of his time, and wondered whether those who professed to be christians in the Italian society were really prastising what the christian doctrine espouses.
This is because majority of the people in the Italian society were of christian persuasion and faith.
And the christian faith and doctrine teach virtues, righteousness, love and justice which contribute to promote good living and happiness to all in the society.
Alas! these requisite values of the christian doctrine were rare and absent in the Italian society of the twentieth century period.
By virtue of the christian doctrine, Pirandello expected to see a virtuous, righteous, sane and a just Italian society, but to his dismay and anguish, Pirandello observed only evil and unrighteousness permeating and afflicting the Italian society.
To this end, it is obvious that Pirandello was compelled to make his unpleasant landmark statement as quoted in the foregoing.
In my opinion, the present Ghanaian society can be apatly likened to Luigi Pirandello degenerated Italian society of the twentieth century.
Undoubtedly, there are too many overt and covert ills and corruptible practices in the Ghanaian society which raises eye brows and much concern to all honest living Ghanaians of all walks of life.
Majority of Ghanaians profers to be christians and appear be pious and zealous in the worship of God by outward practices, such as going to church on Sundays and observing christian feast days such as Christmas, Easter, etc; and yet the Ghanaian society is on the continual down trend spiral of corruptible practices, unrighteousness and injustice.
A critical analysis and evaluation of this unpalatable state of the present Ghanaian shows that if Ghanaian christians will be truthful to God in their worship of Him, the Ghanaian society will be a happier and more prosperous place to live than it is now.
Truly God exist! And He has set His cosmic laws in operation, which have no respect of persons.
And if all Ghanaian christians will take cognisance of this truth, and subject themselves to the will of God, the Ghanaian society will experience a positive change that will go a long way to bring about prosperity and happiness to all Ghanaians.
The American nation and her people have an enduring motto which states: “In God We Trust.” If this motto can be taken seriously by all Ghanaian christian societies, it will definitely open a new chapter to bring about God’s abundant blessings to the present ailing Ghanaian society.
It is stated clearly in the old testament of the Christian Bible: “Righteousness Exalteth A Nation But Sin Is A Reproach To Any People”, Proverbs chapter 14 verse 34.
To this end, I advocate that Ghanaian Christians should take God serious and try to manifest righteousness, love, truth and justice in their life styles; and I believe that God will definitely pour His abundant blessings upon the nation as He always do to all people who turn away from their evil and unrighteous ways to follow what is good.
In conclusion, I state categorically that the present Ghanaian society or nation will definitely experience abundant blessings if all in the Ghanaian society will repent and abandon all evils and corruptible practices and live Godly lives.
Definitely there is hope for the present Ghanaian society (Isaiah chapter 40 verse 1-31).
For God is love and good to all people at all times; especially those who obey His laws and do His will.
BY: MICHAEL AKENOO; THEATRE CRITIC