{"id":1125976,"date":"2022-06-17T19:36:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T19:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/17\/message-to-the-president-over-why-he-should-stop-building-the-cathedral-at-this-time-opinion\/"},"modified":"2022-06-17T19:36:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T19:36:21","slug":"message-to-the-president-over-why-he-should-stop-building-the-cathedral-at-this-time-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/17\/message-to-the-president-over-why-he-should-stop-building-the-cathedral-at-this-time-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Message To The President Over Why He Should Stop Building The Cathedral At This Time (Opinion)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/84e93c0e66cb453bb75f372d23f9001e\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Is the national cathedral a building for God or a repulsive concept for the country&#8217;s fervent Christians?<\/p>\n<p>Christians have always built their churches without using state cash; in fact, the church has always aided the state rather than taken from it.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it true that the project didn&#8217;t get off to a good start because the state bulldozed perfectly good buildings worth millions of dollars? After that, it&#8217;s been a string of horrific things happening around God&#8217;s building.<\/p>\n<p>Bad start, bad process, bad progress, taking public funds, bad communication, and never-ending issues with troubling revelations about the theft of funds here and there.<\/p>\n<p>I am strengthened in my conviction that Jehovah God, whom we serve, does not want this building, which is riddled with conflicts, to be used for the habitation of a supreme being who occupies the entire universe.<\/p>\n<p>No amount of warped logic based on theological notions of national morality can justify the misappropriation of poor people&#8217;s funds to fulfill a commitment to a God.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/76e04f0833724b2c848379bfc3afad8a\"\/><\/p>\n<p>No one can create a monument to a God on the backs of impoverished people&#8217;s suffering when the money could be utilized to help them improve their lives in these difficult times.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Francisca (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the national cathedral a building for God or a repulsive concept for the country&#8217;s fervent Christians? Christians have always built their churches without using state cash; in fact, the church has always aided the state rather than taken from it. Isn&#8217;t it true that the project didn&#8217;t get off to a good start because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1125977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4078,8458,2951,3006,275,534,521],"class_list":["post-1125976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-building","tag-cathedral","tag-message","tag-opinion","tag-president","tag-stop","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}