{"id":1130366,"date":"2022-06-21T22:38:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T22:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/21\/why-do-ghanaians-spend-hours-praying-for-things-to-get-better-instead-of-taking-action\/"},"modified":"2022-06-21T22:38:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T22:38:13","slug":"why-do-ghanaians-spend-hours-praying-for-things-to-get-better-instead-of-taking-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/21\/why-do-ghanaians-spend-hours-praying-for-things-to-get-better-instead-of-taking-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Ghanaians Spend Hours Praying For Things To Get Better Instead Of Taking Action?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian actor, politician and entrepreneur, John Setor Dumelo, has wondered why Ghanaians pay more attention to religious-related activities than doing what will bring progress in society.<\/p>\n<p>John in a tweet wondered if there was a link between religion and development that drives Ghanaians to spend almost all of their time praying rather than focusing on what will improve their lives and the country as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his Twitter page on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, the former parliamentary aspirant questioned why Ghanaians are converting factories to churches and if it is the right approach to tackle the economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dumelo also wondered once more why Ghanaians prioritize tithe payment over paying taxes to help the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs there a link between religion &#038; development? Do Ghanaians spend more time praying for Ghana to be better than actually making the physical effort to make things better?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>We are converting factories to churches and paying more tithes than taxes. Is that the right approach?\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n<p>See his post below;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"800\" data-id=\"259934\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-259934\"  data-lazy- src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot_20220621-222929_Twitter.jpg\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"800\" data-id=\"259934\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot_20220621-222929_Twitter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-259934\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Ghanaian actor, politician and entrepreneur, John Setor Dumelo, has wondered why Ghanaians pay more attention to religious-related activities than doing what will bring progress in society. John in a tweet wondered if there was a link between religion and development that drives Ghanaians to spend almost all of their time praying rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1130368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[777,834,327,699,2692],"class_list":["post-1130366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-action","tag-ghanaians","tag-hours","tag-praying","tag-spend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130366","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=1130366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}