![]() The one place you should be made to feel safe is the one place you will be made to feel ashamed and ultimately stay away from.įrom its origins in the 17th century all through to the late 19th century, Baptists in America vigorously engaged in the practice of church discipline. You will be ostracised for not doing anything seemingly appropriate to these elders. It is safe to say that Cancel Culture started out as some old fashioned church discipline. Many of these elders are our parents, uncles, aunties and teachers, even doctors. Giving you hair a different phase from the one you were born into is horrifying and a host of many others. Having more piercings than your mother and father decided was okay in your ears is a sin and you are deemed waywardly if you indulge in such. You ought not to misrepresent by desecrating the body God carefully crafted after His own image and likeness. You dare not look a certain way or dress a certain way. In the world we are in today, every youth is being profiled, dangerously so in Nigeria. Which only makes you wonder why the elders of the church would do anything to turn their Sunday Service into a day to scrutinize and proclaim themselves judge over the very lives and decisions of the youths. The men were not perfect but it is famously said that He doesn’t call the qualified, but He qualifies the called. For a place required to be seen as solace, the church starts out as a place where not only can you not have opinions, you can not ever dare to do or say anything or act in a certain manner that does not please - The Elders!Īs we all know and love, Christ Jesus not only saved a young woman from being stoned to death by asking the first person who was certain they were without sin to throw the first stone, he made sure all knew they were welcome in the presence of God, and what better way to display this than in the very manner he selected his disciples. One prehistoric, historic and all too familiar place would be the church. ![]() Rightly, one has to question where it all began. It is unforgiving and unrelenting, and it seems you can not blink fast enough because there is one canceling event every minute. It has become a leaderless movement to “cancel” out someone, anyone, regardless of status or social ranking, anyone who either has opposing views, who errs, or who just plainly does not sit right with you and your feelings at the given time or day. , in its pop-culture dictionary, defines “Cancel Culture” as “ withdrawing support for public figures and com panies after they have done or said something considered objectionable or offensive. ![]()
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