Every election year, Ghana’s churches and mosques fill up with familiar faces, not the faithful, but the powerful. Politicians rush to kneel at altars they rarely visit, raising hands not in worship but in calculation. The pulpit becomes a podium, and the sermon, a manifesto.
It is not religion that corrupts politics; it is politics that corrupts religion. When pulpits echo campaign slogans and congregations are told who to vote for, faith loses its freedom and democracy loses its conscience. Until the pulpit stops acting as the backstage of politics, the Gospel according to greed will keep rewriting our national story one offering at a time.
Across the country, the lines blur: campaign buses park in churchyards, politicians sponsor crusades, and preachers compete for “anointed” candidates to endorse. Faith, once a moral compass now functions as political currency. For Ghana’s Politicians Turn Faith Into a Campaign Strategy and Pastors Into Power Brokers
Many leaders have discovered that a single photo inside a sanctuary can purchase more credibility than years of honest governance. The appearance of prayer substitutes for the practice of integrity. Religious leaders, in turn, are courted with contracts, appointments, and envelopes large enough to silence prophecy. They just has to stay focused on systems of power, hypocrisy, and misuse of faith, not on condemning Christianity, but other religions .
Ghana deserves better believers who question power, not bless it blindly; clergy who serve truth, not titles; and politicians who understand that righteousness is proven in budgets, not in Bibles or beads.
Let faith guide power, not serve it.
Venerable Dr Nathaniel Nii Naate Atswele Agbo Nartey
