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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Ghana Freethinkers met \u2014 a small group of young smart individuals questioning that which has been fed them since childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The group comprised downright atheists, agnostics, skeptics and freethinkers. Seriously, until very recently, I found it hard imagining that there were Ghanaians residents in Ghana who expressed such world views as myself.That\u2019s in part because I hadn\u2019t met such people. The people I met were ones who thought me delusional or looked at me with intense pity or were incredulous of my views on a myriad of debates \u2014 the God question (religion and faith), homosexuality, abortion, et cetera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The beauty of it was that the fellows I met were young \u2014 average age, no more than thirty. During the four hours or so that the group met, we discussed losing faith in Faith, church and spirituality, homosexuality as viewed in Ghana, the legality\/illegality of abortion in Ghana, feminism and what the group stands for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then we had a thirty minute Skype chat with Freethought Kampala from whom we are learning a lot, thanks in large part to Becca Schwartz who made contact with the group in Ghana and and made it possible to meet them. The group now has a Facebook page \u2014 Freethought Ghana, and is open to persons who are in doubt, seeking alternative views and rational explanations to events around them, people who subscribe to humanists views of the world or people who just want to engage with others on such matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Humanism loosely defined, is believing that morals, values, and lifestyles should be derived from the human experience of the world rather than from ideological and\/or theological abstractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n