I went to a discussion last Friday where people were looking for an African god. The theme was most cultures have their own gods but Africans have lost theirs. Their gods are given to them by the West or the Middle East. It is kind of funny. Mainly because Europeans got their god from the middle east. Jesus now looks European with his blue eyes and blond hair. But most of us know that this is just an artist's interpretation of what Jesus looks like. Or do we? The people I was talking to in Ghana think that Jesus looks like a white man so he cannot be our god. But Europeans on the other hand took a middle eastern god and made him look European. The Chinese god Buddha also came from India and is not Chinese. But now Buddhism is a Chinese religion and China do not think of Buddhism as foreign. If Africans are truly looking for a religion from Africa then the Egyptian ancient religion is a good option. It might be interesting to see how that will go and who will be the new priests of this revived religion.
Also this conversation made me realize that every one needs a religion. Religion gives you a backbone of morals and also a means to analyze your life time and again. I for one do not care where my religion came from as long as the bunch of morals proposed appeals to me.
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