“The most dangerous person to ever fight with is someone who has nothing to lose,” said Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams. This was around the time when there was a wave of military upheavals within the Western demarcation of the African continent. Several months later, there were carefully crafted coups d’etat and for the first time, the democratic mindset of nationals communicated their support on social media through their personal handles. It did not matter whether the religion of the military heads of state were tied to the cross or Kaaba.

If it is about losses, the Muslim is not affected. Either way is a win for him. Maybe it is a very good thing the Quran is now as ubiquitous as any necessary household item nowadays. It was not so two or three decades ago. When the Bible became accessible for people to read, a lot of secrets unfolded and not too many leaders of the church were pleased. Some of seals that were broken included buying our way to heaven through tithes, offerings and pledges, something men of God through their officers have coaxed and coerced people to pay even if they are struggling.

Islam, to some, means peace; to others, it is submission to Allah, the God of all Moslems. Many have observed and experienced how peaceful the Ghanaian Moslem has been over the years, decades or centuries. Well-informed apostate, Avhram Ben Moshe is of the view that the Ghanaian Moslem is only peaceful due to constraints in size. They are comparatively a minority groupto the size of the Christian counterpart has recorded in several population censuses. If we are to have any iota of belief in the views of the leader and founder of Common Sense Family, we would have to look at a series of case studies and documented observation and experience beyond Ghana. The world being a global village means there are a lot of education and religious experience one can learn, adopt and apply effortlessly to themselves or society they find themselves in. When terrorism began, none of the known terrorist identified as Hindu or Buddhist. Were they Christians? Your guess in comparison to mine should be as that good.

Any sensible person with home school education would not want Ghana, our beloved country, to be like what other countries are experiencing in the name of religion. There is Nigeria, Somalia, to the Middle East. There is a more conservative way Islam could take over the world population: the easiest way is large spousal and family size. This is something other religions do not mostly do. When a man has about four wives and they bear four children each, surely the traditionalist who has limited himself to one wife by Ordinance or court marriage would not have anyone to blame but himself if one minority religious population has switched to become majority.

Christians on the other hand must find a less provocative way to advertise the Gospel. Using the Elijah and Moses method to preach while not practising will do more harm than good. If those methods were efficient as we read, God would not have come on earth through Jesus. If we are to be like Jesus, we would focus on the rot associated with those who identify themselves as Christians but have both hands and feet in the mess the country finds itself today. In terms of number of persons accused of corruption and losses finance and resources to the state, the Christian population outweigh the Moslems.

Despite all these, it should not be seen as neutrals taking sides when wrong is described as such. A person who identifies as a pastor was allegedly arrested and brought to the headquarters of police and was on live video slapped after threats and it had to take a series of social media coercion days later before there was an arrest with a blurred image? This happened during the period Arabic Language is to be reintroduced to basic level on a large scale? Is it a trap for the language to be abolished? I know somewhere the interior minister and education minister had been hit with stray derogatory bullets because they are Moslems. Even though NPP presidential is not in government but re-strategizing in opposition, he would also have a suitable share of the pellets from the barrels of the guns of Ghanaians on social media. Elders, here or somewhere, say when a finger is soiled with dark grease, it certainly spreads to the others. These prominent Moslems find themselves in these mutual circumstances especially due to their loud silence about the incident at the police headquarters.

The heaven Christians are made to buy with money, Moslems have been educated it can be through defending Mohammed even if a life can be affected. Is this what religion would reduce a society, nation or culture to?

When the two most popular and populous religions conspicuously show this side, then we must return to the oldest but most overlooked aspects of life: constitutional law is the best way forward.

By Martin Elorm Dogbo