What is Busia's description of the faith of early christians in Ghana as a thin veneer?

Answer 1

I think it’s one of the consequences of globalisation, one of the consequences of the so-called religious pluralism, which has become fashionable lately. I mean, I would be the last person to question the right of everyone to believe, but when the religion is understood not as the authentic way of a human’s self-expression, but only as something ritual, something superficial. It reflects the hostile attitude rather than the Christian belief. We got used to speak about Atheism in the context of the Soviet history, when a sort of parody of the Chistian ways, particularly the Orthodox ones, was created. But in fact the same process occurred in other places as well. We shouldn’t forget that a series of anti-Christian processes were carried out by the fathers of the French Revolution at the beginning of the 18th century. We shouldn’t forget the persecutions of Christians – actually massacres – in Spain during the civil war and in Mexico in the 1920s. We shouldn’t forget the persecution of Chistians by the Nazi regime in Germany. So what we are witnessing now is a consequence of a really complex character resulting from series of persecutions in the 20th century, the breaches connected to the two world wars and also of the religious indifference based on consumerism.