Ghanaian singer Fuse ODG has burnt a painting of Jesus Christ in a video that has been shared online.
The artist called on Africans to reject the notion that Jesus Christ is white as he set ablaze the image that for a long time has represented the son of God.
Fuse ODG believes it’s wrong for Christians, especially Africans, to hang the images of Christ on their walls in churches and in their homes.
He stressed that the act constitutes idol worship and and he added that the Bible is against it.
Fuse ODG believes the painting of white Jesus represents our oppressors and is the seed of dictators like Adolf Hitler, the apartheid in South Africa, the Rwandan genocide and skin bleaching.
“For the oppressed, as Africans, we can hope that the oppressors can do the right thing but we cannot depend on it. We need to take our faith into our own hands. We have the responsibility to deal with our own truth and it starts with this (pointing to Jesus’ painting),”
“This is a seed. This is the seed that gave birth to [Adolf] Hitler and his doctrine. This is the seed that gave birth to the KKK, the apartheid in South Africa, the Rwandan genocide, a people of colour bleaching across the globe till date as we speak, and the list goes on.”
“This is not even biblical. If you read the Bible, it specifically tells us not to create any images in the form of a man or a woman or any creature on earth. This is ‘idology’ and again if you read the Bible there’s nothing that got hate than idol worship. We need to take down this images and worship God in spirit and in truth”, he said.
Before burning the work of painting, he urged churches all around the world to take the images down.
His act, which some Christians may deem as blasphemy, has attracted a lot of reactions from the public.
