‘Doubt, Is It Good Or Bad?’ - Okyeame Kwame Challenges Religious, Societal Constructs On His Post
Artiste, Okyeame Kwame, questions the tradition where children are not supposed to doubt their elders
Tanitoluwa J. Adedotun 
Okyeame Kwame has questioned the place of doubt in society.
The artiste, who has been vocal on issues of the society in recent times, explained that Ghanaians have been taught to treat doubt as a bad thing that threatens authority.
In his most recent Facebook post, the rapper noted how the inability to question things has brought backwardness to Ghana through religion and bad leaders who cannot be questioned.
Using the famous quote by René Descartes, he stated that real seekers of truth find it necessary to at least once in their life doubt all things as much as they can.
Okyeame Kwame asked why his children must be taught to accept everything that he says as the truth without the inability to doubt.
Read his full post below.
“Doubt simply means to lack conviction in something. I doubt that I can run for four days without food, rest and water based on my own judgement."
"What is the psychological nature of doubt? I think it is a consequence of thought and time (memory). It is my mind making its judgement on what is probable, possible and impossible based on the data available to me. Doubt may restrict an action and cause anxieties. But it may also caution a person from taking a deep plunge into making a future mistake.”
“So, why are tradition and religion fighting the mere thought of doubt? Why are my children not free enough to tell me that based on my history, they doubt that I was being honest with my straight A story? Why am I a sinner if I question some religious stories? Especially ones that I find highly improbable."
"Why am I judged if I openly declare that I doubt a universally loving God who created all humankind will lead the Asantes to kill Fantes in a war? The same Omniscient, loving God would love Isreal more than Jericho but later love Jericho when Isreal rejects His Son? Why can’t I freely think and share these thoughts?”
"So, Is it a sin to doubt what you find improbable? Is it disrespectful to doubt your elders? What do you think is the reason why religion and tradition try to control what we doubt?"
