“Breast cancer is not treated at prayer camps. It is treated in a hospital.” These great words were uttered by a certain brave and ardent Ghanaian Christian woman physician, on a certain day in October 2025, during a televised sensitisation programme on breast cancer in Ghana, a country on the west coast of Africa. From her experience, so many Ghanaian women, when diagnosed with breast cancer for the first time at the hospital where she works, embark on a merry-go-round, at so many prayer camps and churches for healing. They eventually come back to the hospital in a terribly advanced state of the disease, only to meet their unwanted and unfortunate preventable deaths, hopelessly abandoned by the numerous prophets and charlatans professing all forms of big and empty titles in the name of Christ. A strange choice of death indeed.-1

Make no mistake about her; she believes strongly in divine healing as taught in the Bible and in the church worldwide, but not in the false doctrines preached on divine healing in the churches and prayer camps in her dear country, Ghana, and she defended her stand to the hilt on the television programme. That woman is the kind of woman developing countries in Africa, like Ghana, desperately need; intellectuals to the core, with great faith in God Omniscient and Omnipotent, but who refuse all forms of religious nonsense from pastors and bishops.-2

A country like Ghana is in dire need of revolutionary thinkers like this woman, to bring about a cultural revolution which will pave the way for the much-needed social and economic transformation which have eluded us since 1957, the year of independence from British colonial rule.-3

It will not be out of place to single out Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and Flt-Lt. Jerry John Rawlings as former leaders of Ghana who wished and acted with all their being to bring about such transformation. The obstacles on their way were simply too many, and being the mortals that they were, one had to end his national and African continental project abruptly, while the other had to breathe his last at a certain stage of his patriotic quest for Ghana, leaving the job to be pursued further by other brave Ghanaians. Dr. Nkrumah was more than convinced that the black man is not subhuman as we were made to believe before 1957, but capable of solving his own problems through his own original approach. Have we? We seem bogged down for too long rather by our own hydra-headed taboos, ancient traditional beliefs and superstition.-4

It will be remembered that Flt-Lt. Jerry John Rawlings ordered a certain man called Jesus Christ of Dzorwulu, a self-styled prophet and pastor, together with his assistants, in Accra, Ghana, to be rounded up, because he was urinating for his followers to drink, as a form of potent medicine. Yet that so-called man of God had a lot of followers in Ghana before the intervention of the Head of State.-5

Again, our late President humorously and wisely once asked those attacking poor old women and killing them in the so-called witch camps in northern Ghana to turn their attention to strong muscular men and establish wizards camps instead, so that they get a taste of the same beatings, blow for blow, and tragic deaths, which they have been inflicting on the innocent old ladies, out of sheer African superstition.-6

Now, are there no limits to what the freedom of worship guarantees in the 1992 Constitution of Ghana? What is the purpose of Article 26(2) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, stated here in deep black: “(1) Every person is entitled to enjoy, practise, profess, maintain and promote any culture, language, tradition or religion subject to the provisions of this Constitution. (2) All customary practices which dehumanise or are injurious to the physical and mental well-being of a person are prohibited.”? Superstition, not organised Faith in God, is destroying our precious citizens, in the form of strange churches springing up like mushrooms, where members are warned, strongly cautioned or threatened with curses or death if they dare say a word against the founder and leader of the church or if they dare leave the church to another one. Is living in such constant fear and panic as a member of a church not simply “dehumanising”? -7

Some pastors and Christians who saw and heard our great Ghanaian woman physician on TV in October 2025 concluded that she was one of the agents or forerunners of the Anti-Christ sent to kill the faith of Christians in Ghana, in the ability of God Omniscient and Omnipotent, Jehovah Rapha, to heal breast cancer.

We are beginning to mix true burning faith in Christ with fanatic preaching on television, fanned by illiteracy and ignorance, leading so many in Ghana to their early graves, and probably hell fire. Just like this event reported in 2014 in the following ABC News extract in the USA: (https: abcnews.go.com, 17 February 2014):-8

“The “snake handling” pastor of a small Pentecostal church in Kentucky died after being bitten by a rattlesnake during a weekend church service. (…). Jamie Coots, the pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name in Middlesboro, Ky., was handling a rattlesnake during a service when he was bitten on his right hand Saturday night. (…) It’s estimated that 125 churches in the United States use poisonous snakes during services today, with many clustered in the South. In tiny churches tucked away in rural Appalachia, “snake handling” is a long-standing tradition, one that took root in this region more than a century ago. These pastors believe that to “take up serpents” is a form of religious expression. In the King James Bible, Mark 16:18 says, “They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them.” Coots and his followers believe that God calls upon them to handle venomous serpents and to drink other poisons. Even if they are bitten, they will refuse medical treatment because they believe that they are worthy of God’s faith, and that their fate is in God’s hands.” This is a false interpretation of the Holy Scriptures, and many pastors from different nations around the world import such terrible misrepresentations from the USA, for the purpose of personal fame and miracle church services. A caricature of the language and meaning of Mark 16: 18. Every Sunday, our churches should probably be full of snakes and rat poisons, to confirm that verse from the Bible. Not so? A strange choice of death. In the name of Christianity. -9

We live in a country where it is a taboo to question or criticise a pastor, bishop or founder of a church. A senseless taboo. So many Christians in Africa have made strange choices of death based on so-called prophetic instructions from pastors.-10

What is this civilisation which kills or draws us back? Someone remarked that Black Africa finds itself at the bottom of the ladder of human development on Planet Earth because of our inability to shake off some of these taboos. Christ came to give life but some of his so-called representatives in Black Africa are distributing death to desperate believers.-11

A lady member of a church was due for surgery, the pastor advised against it, that she will be healed through the church’s prayers. Her situation got worse and when her husband stood against the pastor’s decision and took her for surgery, the pastor’s last statement was that some of these doctors at times forget objects inside the bodies of their patients after the surgical operation. A true story. This was an insensitive pastor who was primarily concerned with his own image and how more and more people will attend his church. The name given to that is ‘church growth’, numerically only, of course, not intellectually and spiritually. Churches have become personal properties, and death traps, at times. The surgical operation went well, and thanks be to God, the lady is doing well till now. Listening to the pastor would have sealed her doom. She had a close shave with death, she would have died inside the church if her husband had not defied the pastor’s instructions.-12

Another senseless taboo which was broadcast on one of Ghana’s private Christian television stations had to do with sex positions among married Christian couples. The founder and leader was preaching against certain positions and insisting that God frowns upon some specific ones since those positions are meant for quadrupeds, not humans. He said four-legged animals do ‘the thing’ from behind so human beings, Christians, must not imitate them. What a shameful message from a pastor oozing ignorance and preaching enslavement! These are the kind of pastors who preach that anytime one becomes conscious of the natural God-given sexual urge, it is a sign of Satan invading your mind and soul, ignorant that such preaching generates sexual impotence in men. Erection comes from the mind of the male creature, and from the flow of blood to fill wonderful spongy tissues in the male genital organ created by God, not Satan. That mental process leading to the flow of the blood and for the hardness of the ‘thing’, to finish ‘the rest of the job’, can be blocked for life by such senseless preaching. The same pastors then turn round to accuse the devil of causing impotence in our youths in the church. You see, libido is a natural gift from the Creator Omniscient and Omnipotent, yet we demonise it and make it a taboo subject for everyday discussion on human culture and religion. We claim holy people do not talk about libido or sex in public. How do we define the word “holy”? A completely sexless life, not so? There are too many senseless taboos among too many hypocrites of human beings on the planet called Earth. We take false refuge and false respites in different forms of falsehood, streaming from different sources of our common centuries-old human ignorance.-13

That same pastor, the so-called best counsellor or expert on sex positions wrongly advised one brilliant school girl who showed great and precocious understanding of the simple, clear and straightforward modern English of the NIV and Good News editions of the Bible, on his television station when she was invited there, that she should not be learning Bible quotations from the NIV and Good News versions, but rather adopt the King James Version. Is this effective church leadership? Not at all, but a strange piece of advice towards intellectual bluntness and spiritual death.-14

The King James Version, written in 17th Century English, has so many English words spelt in exactly the same way as many modern English words but whose meanings have changed completely over 400 years now. Memorisation without the linguistic, historical and spiritual and contextual understanding seemed to be of priority to him. To reproduce words from the Bible without understanding anything about them. It is called a ‘memory verse’. Not so? Why plunge our brilliant young girl into darkness with the taboo of ‘touch not God’s anointed’. Anointed with what? Anointed with ignorance.-15

Yes, before going to bed with your wife, you may have to consult your pastor or bishop to know which sex position is accepted by ‘the man of God’ before you go ahead. Certain days may soon be decreed by pastors, for married couples not to do the thing, even though married. Why is the natural aspects of sexuality not preached, with calls for discipline, instead of tagging it straightforward as a sin? A good brother in church confessed that so many filthy and unwholesome things had been preached about sex in church to the extent that though he married as a virgin, he never saw anything enjoyable or extraordinary the first time he did the thing, within marriage. It has not had any special appeal for him till date. So who caused it? This is not a licence for promiscuity, but a call on the pastors to stop preaching half-truths about sex, even advising at times that as an unmarried Christian, when your sexual urge seems too high at certain natural stages of the human cycle, just go on a fast and start speaking in tongues, and the devil will leave you. The devil in a God-created natural sexual urge? Are the contradictory messages from the mushrooming churches liberating or imprisoning Christians in Ghana?-16

Again, it has been preached in some churches, and I have heard it with my own ears several times that Christian women should give birth like ‘the Hebrew women’, to misquote the Bible, and that caesarean operation is not ordained for our dear Ghanaian pregnant women. Do you know that many pregnant church-going Ghanaian women believe this more than what their doctors will tell them during ante-natal care?-17

Someone will have to undertake a research on how many pregnant African women have died upon a pastor’s advice, fatally trying to give birth naturally, shunning caesarean section. A nation that will stand tall and developed socially and economically must a robust intellectual base in its cultural beliefs and norms. A woman who chooses to die like this because of church doctrine in Ghana is a huge loss to our dear nation, a victim of a strange choice of death. Faith in Omniscient and Omnipotent God and in Christ Jesus, the Light of the World, should bring enlightenment to us all, not darkness.-18

I wish to reproduce sections of a GhanaWeb (www.ghanaweb.com) article of Monday, 13 January 2020 as an example of the kind of revolutionary Christian thinkers we need in our country:-19

“Don’t turn the workplace into a worship centre” – Tobinco CEO

“Chief Executive Officer of Tobinco Group of Companies, Samuel Amo Tobin, has advised business owners not to allow their employees turn their offices into worship centres as that will collapse the business. (…) He said the church is different from work and trying to combine the two will spell doom for business. (…). That even though he is presiding elder at the Church of Pentecost, and employs many church members, the Chief Executive Officer, he has drawn a clear line between work and church to ensure the employees do not take advantage of his position in church to joke with his business. (…) That he fired one of his employees because she was busy reading the Bible during work hours. (…) He said that is why our country is not developing, our attitude towards work is zero. People want to be pushed before they work and if you push them too much they say you are a bad guy. (…) Mr. Tobin noted that if allowed, these same employees, who will run the business down, will turn to blame the owner for bad management.”-20

Over to you Ghana. Over to you Black Africa. Over to you Black Man. We must always remember Article 26(2) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, quoted earlier in this text. May God help us all towards a sterling civilisation of world-class intellectual, social, economic, and financial breakthroughs, as Black People. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.-21

BEYOND THE SOUNDS AND WRITTEN FORMS

1. Civilisation

What is this civilisation which kills or draws us back? (See paragraph 7)

Our way of thinking and behaving.

May God help us all towards a sterling civilisation of world-class intellectual, social, economic, and financial breakthroughs, as Black People. (See paragraph 21)

An organised system of cultural values.

2. Church

Make no mistake about her; she believed strongly in divine healing as taught in the Bible and in the church worldwide (See paragraph 3)

All churches all over the world.

but not in the false doctrines preached on divine healing in the churches and prayer camps in her dear country, Ghana, (See paragraph 3)

Smaller denominations and local splinter groups of the Church of Christ as a single world body.

in the form of strange churches springing up like mushrooms (See paragraph 7)

Groups of people worshipping together based on the directions and instructions of the founder and leader, or the one in whose name the church is officially registered.

leader of the church or if they dare leave the church to another one. Is living in such constant fear and panic as a member of a church (See paragraph 7)

A local congregation of worshippers founded on the initiative of a particular leader.

3. Social

the much-needed social and economic transformation which have eluded us since 1957, (See paragraph 3)

Related to the quality of life as human beings.

A nation that will stand tall and developed socially and economically must a robust intellectual base in its cultural beliefs and norms. (See paragraph 18)

In relation to the quality of life of the citizens of that nation.

a sterling civilisation of world-class intellectual, social, economic, and financial breakthroughs, as a Black People, and as Black Peoples. (See paragraph 21)

The living conditions as human beings.

Too Many Senseless Taboos