In Ghana, religion can influence every aspect of life,
including health and disabilities. People believe that evil behaviors
cause illness. They think disability is a disease and a punishment, even
disabilities themselves also think they are cursed. They think they
should not exist, everyone should be healthy. Their bias are not only on
the physical level e.g., think they are useless, consider them as
burden because they need others' help and cannot do a lot of things, but
emphasize more on the spiritual level, they are cursed, even after the
physical handicaps are removed or fixed. They might be hidden in the
closet or killed at young age.
Although the directer said that changing belief is hard, I
think reversing the negative attitude is still possible. Using the
power of religion, let religion leaders or authorities affect the
followers. In the movie "Emmanuel's gift", The king in Ghana did change
people's attitude to disabilities. I am not religious, I do not know why
do people believe in religion, but I think everyone want a high quality
of life and no one want to kill their babies under any circumstance.
They did that because they did not know what else they could do and
others were doing the same thing.
God should bless everyone.
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