Mensa Otabil has made a career out of a host of contradictions, berating Ghanaians for not using our heads to think when he himself said that logic doesn’t matter in spiritual matters, preaching about a socialist Jew whilst living an enviable capitalist existence, and now he’s attempting to discredit one of the biggest criticisms against Christianity by diluting it so he can keep the religion intact and keep profiting off it.
If there’s a bigger hypocrite in this country I’m definitely yet to find them.
Otabil berates Ghanaians all the time for not using our heads but he has a congregation full of Ghanaians whose insistence on not using their heads brings them back to enrich him every weekend.
Preaching to these people on Sunday, the pastor attempted to attack the European roots of Christianity without attacking Christianity itself, because of course he needs Christianity to survive.
According to him, the white people who brought Christianity to us ‘Europeanized’ it in order to make us feel inferior to them.
“I say unfortunately because the Christianity that came to us was the true gospel, but it was culturally clothed in the European, and, so, there is the kind of Christianity that we embraced that made everything white: Jesus is white, angels are white, God is white, and, so, we began to feel we are nothing, we are not able, we are not even the same colour with God.” Otabil said.
“Now if you think that way, although you are a Christian, and you are born again, there’ll be a certain sense in your mind that although you are a Christian, you still are not of the best sort because you are of the wrong skin colour, so, in addition to our own inability to solve our problems, we now assign problem-solving to another race.”
He continued: “So, anytime we are in trouble, we rush to them (assorted levels of white people). This is what foreigners don’t understand that when we [Africans] say a white man, it’s not [the same as] what they [white people] say. For example when an African American says you are white, it’s different from when an African says you are white. We have assorted levels. It starts from the European to the Indian and anything in between; for us they are all white, so, anything that looked different from us, we conferred our destiny into. So, we need to solve our problems, there’s filth around us, we don’t solve it, we’re waiting for the IMF, we’re waiting for the World Bank, we’re waiting for a white consultant, we’re waiting for somebody to come and solve our problem, so, we became very inactive.
“It is in this context that God called me. If God called me then it means that part of my mission is to deal with that problem. First with the ancestral problem and secondly with the secondary problem of colonialism and what it has done to us – damaged our sense of confidence … I believe that that approach of confidence is what we need to turn our destiny around.” he added.