The story is told of how two Ghanaian old ladies emerged from church one Sunday morning in June 1967. During the service, the minister had asked for prayers for the people of Israel, who were at war.
"Akosua", one lady turned to the other, "what are we going to do?"
"Do about what?" the other asked, perplexed.
"Didn't you hear the priest? Jerusalem is about to be destroyed!"
"Oh that … "
"Yes. You and I have been paying our church dues regularly. We have been coming to morning service without fail. But now that we are approaching the time when we shall leave this place of suffering and go to Jerusalem, our heavenly home of eternal peace, they say that that place, too, is going to be destroyed."
"It's not fair!" the other old lady assented. "All our good deeds have been done in vain!"
This story illustrates a phenomenon very common indeed in Africa: many Christians on the continent take what the Bible says about almost anything quite literally.
It is therefore extremely worrying that climate change is already changing the Africa's environment irreversibly.
Indeed, very frightening pictures have been coming out of Kenya and other parts of east Africa in recent months.
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“Wisdom that will bless I, who live in the spiral joy born at the utter end of a black prayer.” • — Keiji Haino
“The subject of human creativity is not an ethnic-centric, but a composite subject.” • — Anthony Braxton
“… It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.” • — The Marquis de Sade
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