The cosmopolitan Ghanaian with five degrees or five cars or five girlfriends has developed a certain condescending disposition against the existence of demons or spirituality in general.

Due to something they call enlightenment, they look down on any knowledge about the belief in the existence of the devil like he is a third class citizen in a snobbish 17^th century British aristocratic Liverpool.

To folks like that, just know that that bastard in hell is shrugging his shoulders saying ‘like daaa”. It’s a great relief you don’t care. He cares to know you don’t care.

Modern people demand a rational explanation for a belief in the existence of demons and yet as rational and empirical as they seem to be, some post-modern cosmopolitan super stars were able to trust their nude pictures to a program on an Apple phone called iCloud.

The pictures have all leaked.

Seriously, any basic understanding of clouds should tell you that, this grey hued matter simply doesn’t know how to keep secrets as surely as it doesn’t know how to hold water for long.

Working in a media house and interacting with Ghana’s so-called middle-class, you sense this heavy air of discrediting, as incredulous, the latest Duncan Williams revelation that Ebola is a demonic spirit heading to Ghana by November.

Now Duncan Williams is not like those pastors who go on radio at midnight to give directions to their house in a way that suggest AMA must speed up its street naming exercise.

No.

He is a credible man of God. Credible? That’s a very strong word to confer on anybody.

In fact, I have come to understand that the only absolutely credible people in the world are pathologists. A pathologist may be a liar to his wife but in his autopsy reports, he will not flatter you by telling you are alive when you know you are dead.

No wonder no family hops from one pathologist to another for a possibly different opinion on an autopsy

Pathologists are spot on.

And in the matter revealed by the ol’ Bishop, I believe he is spot on like a pathologist.

People say because we do not understand Ebola or get a cure for it, it is easy to label it demonic so that when we understand the deadly virus we will cease to call it by that name.

Naaah,…That is not what we Christians believe.

Otherwise, the day your kid is faced with a difficult math exams demanding to know 2x2=a. Find a, he will circle that question as demonic.

So no, we don’t believe that a demon is the creation of our ignorance, if that’s what our post-modern cosmopolitan half-baked, quarter-baked and fully baked academicians believe, then,

 Hurray – that’s their own demon too.

In an indirect discount to Archbishop Duncan William’s claim, some have also argued that Ebola is a man-made (or a white man-made) biological weapon meant to control world population.

If you are a Christian, you don’t have to choose one claim over the other. You can have both.

Why? Simply because demons need a man’s mind or body to operate. So if Ebola were man-made we go further to say what made the man to make Ebola virus was, demonic.

See? In the bible, diseases such as Ebola are called in the Psalms, a “pestilence that flies by night”.

Duncan Williams wants us to pray. But prayer won’t vindicate the Archbishop and a vindication for the Archbishop is not in our best interest.

So those who listed doubt was one of their pastimes, can still keep their pastime.

The space here is way too short to fully explore this subject of demonology. Maybe from the feedback, we could do another one on this. But suffice it to explain it this way.

To ask if demons exist is quite similar to asking if rust exist.

Well, it does. Rust exists on metals. Indeed it needs metals to exist just as demonic activity needs a man’s cooperation.

Rust is another name for iron oxide, which occurs when iron or an alloy that contains iron, like steel, is exposed to oxygen and moisture for a long period of time. Over time, the oxygen combines with the metal at an atomic level, forming a new compound called an oxide and weakening the bonds of the metal itself. (howstuffworks.com)

So when you see a rusty object, it is a physical manifestation of non-physical interaction between oxygen and H2o.

So when you see rust on an iron metal, you know it’s the work of these two things. In a similar way, when you see some human conditions, you know it is the work of the demonic.

Of course you may ask that if science is an authority to explains rust, surely it must be an authority to explain demons, does it?

We don’t even have to bother or even go too far about science explaining demons, because science has not finished explaining rust.

What is oxygen, water? Where did they come from? Is it a who or a what that created them? And what do you mean by corroding over time? What is time? How do we know what time it? Who or what put it there?

Right in these questions, science clash with God over a small understanding of - rust.  

Science should finish with rust. Demons are a long long way away.

Our authority on rust is not science but God. Science is God’s houseboy or if you like maid. God? What is God? Who is God? Well, you would have to read another of my article, Killing God to stay alive.

J.K Chesterton wrote in his book, Orthodoxy “The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”

“Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.”

Most people you meet like to think they are rational. But really, they are not. They are borrowed rationalists.

Just like when I was in primary school, your friends come and borrow your best clothes and latest footwear to go to ‘jams’. It was called ‘ La borrow’ (Is it still called that?) – and they walk around with a swagger that is great but ultimately foolish, when you discover that the dress wasn’t theirs in the first place.

That’s your modern day enlightened rationalist people – ‘La borrow rationalists’.

They want to trust a book with a nice graphic design cover than the bible with its dull, dark colour.

We can’t vouch for others Christians, but we don’t talk about demons to flatter them the same way you would feel if you knew Obama knows your name. Naaah

We talk about them in the same way Martin Hamidu talks about corruption – to expose them.

We don’t talk about demons because we take them seriously; we talk about them because we take God very seriously.

I have read stories of a toddler who suddenly one late evening got up to walk to the window, wailing as she pointed outside ‘Daddy don’t go, daddy don’t go’, while her mother watched cluelessly not knowing how to comfort the wailing baby.

She only got to know the next morning that her husband was murdered that evening as he was returning home.

I have heard stories of a baby who had no knowledge that his father was on a plane, suddenly wake up and ask her mother not to let daddy go on the plane, only for the plane to crash to fatal ends.

SO you don’t believe in the existence of the supernatural? You gotto be kidding me.