...take away every thing and make everybody feel high.
Again, attitude, and now that I am started, let me just touch the god issue. I don´t think that there is a more religious country than Liberia. Every second person is a reverend somewhere. Taking into account of what we have been through, this understandable. But is it sustainable? Putting our blind trust in our gods to provide. Will they clean our streets? Will they start private companies to provide jobs for the masses? Will they give us food to eat? These and other questions on this issue have been on the agenda since the first missionaries arrived on our shores. We have had foreigners come here and tell us that we need to accept their gods and everything will be fine. Do not worry, my god will provide.
To me, this religious attitude is one of the main brakes of our developement. It makes our people very passive, reluctant to take their destinys into their own hands. I am not saying that everyone is like this, but a majority is certainly there. Those who do not leave everything to a god, but try to work hard to improve their lives are looked upon with extreme envy. We even pray to these same gods that those who are doing well should fail, because we do not have the solidarity there to wish them well. This has to change now. Look beyond your own selfish ambitions. If you have to go to worship something, use that time to try to come together a one community and act as one.
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