Read Time: 3 minutes        “Spot the Difference” is usually not a very easy game. The images look very alike and the difference is so obscure that the player has to summon all his or…


        
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SPOT THE DIFFERNCE  By Abena Osegu Boateng


Read Time: 3 minutes

“Spot the Difference” is usually not a very easy game. The images look very alike and the difference is so obscure that the player has to summon all his or her senses to notice it.

Trying to find the difference in the promise by Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo to build a National Cathedral and the statement of the new President John Dramani Mahama cannot be an easy task.

Whiles begging for the votes of Ghanaians as a Presidential candidate, Nana promised to  build a national cathedral as his thank you to his God for convincing or forcing the people of Ghana to make him President.

He pledged that funds for the cathedral will come from private sources and that the state will not have to spend a pesewa on the building of God’s new residence.

The people of Ghana were not amused when it turned out that state resources in the millions of dollars had been expended to keep the very private promise that our President made to his God. They asked how a secular state could spend billions of cedis on the construction of a place of worship for adherents of a religion which justified slavery and colonialism. They also argued that a state which by all standards had assumed the status of bankruptcy ought to spend the little resources it can find on improving the working and living conditions of its people.

As was to be expected, President John Dramani Mahama and his National Democratic Congress (NDC) jumped onto the bandwagon and condemned President Akufo Addo for being insensitive to the plight of the people and wasting as much as 58 million US dollars on the building of just the foundation of the cathedral.

Last Sunday, President Mahama spoke again on the national cathedral at a thanksgiving service he and his party organised to thank his God, not Ghanaian voters for making him the President of the secular Republic of Ghana.

Please note that there is not much difference here because both President Mahama and Nana Akufo Addo are Christians and can be presumed to have the same God who exists in three parts and had a son with a virgin woman engaged to a carpenter.

They all believe that it is that same God who moves in mysterious ways who made them Presidents and that God deserves to be thanked when he shows his bias for a particular Presidential candidate.

President Mahama hinted that the site for the building of cathedral may be changed and insisted that funding for the project must come form private sources.

The only difference here is that whiles President Mahama may eventually agree that the cathedral project be moved from the Rigde area to Madina, Nsawam, Kokrobite, Kumasi or Tamale, he had no problems with building the cathedral.

He fully agreed with the earlier position of Akufo Addo that the cathedral should be built with private resources and not be sponsored by the state. President Mahama does not oppose the idea of building a mansion for the residence of God Almighty.

I have just been wondering how Akufo Addo and Mahama came to the strange realization that their God who was the creator of heaven and earth and therefore existed before the world became homeless and needs a house built by those he created.

Certainly an omnipotent God who is unable to build a house for himself or herself must be strange indeed.

In any case, is that God not satisfied with the many churches all over the place which the men and women in cassock claim are his houses?

Dear reader, what are the differences you have managed to spot?


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