Stop Generalizing When You Criticize The Church – Banky W

Popular singer and actor Banky W has warned Nigerians against criticising the church. He recently had his say while speaking on the MENtality podcast hosted by Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, condemning the entire institution over the actions of a few is highly unfair, and such generalistic criticism should be discouraged.

Comparing the church to other sectors like education and healthcare, he added that both exemplary and harmful individuals coexist in the house of God as well.

His words, “I think that there are fair allegations in certain regards. I have a problem when we make generalistic statements. And that I think is… We’re speaking generally, which is wrong, but I get you.”

But I think that therein lies the problem, because you don’t say, because there were doctors who were bad or guilty of abuse, then I’m never going to go to a doctor or hospitals are evil or whatever the case may be, right? You have bad teachers and good teachers.

Everybody has that story. In the same families, there’s always, you know, one or two people that have great touch. So I don’t think that it’s fair when we make generalistic statements and say, because I’ve seen evidence of this here, then everybody is guilty of this thing.

The prosperity gospel is false, is corrupted. The poverty gospel is also false and corrupted. That the idea that, oh, you are just meant to be poor, wait until you die and just submit to everything and just wait.

Yes, that’s also false. What the gospel really says is that God will provide all of your needs. God will bless you enough for you to be a blessing.

That’s the promise.The promise is not we’re all meant to be Dangote and Otedola. And it’s also not that we’re all supposed to sleep under the bridge. It’s a gospel of provision, not prosperity and not poverty.

Now, there is a segment of the church that has taken that and abused it. And I know, and those allegations are true.

And I don’t like them either. But I also don’t like when we take that, those evidence, the evidence that we do have of corruption and allegation.Just like what you said about the music business.

Oh, you and your people, all of you are, it’s an unfair statement. And I think that as intellectual, intelligent, eloquent people, we have to be reasonable enough to say that within this field, there are some really good things and there are some bad things, regardless of your belief system. I think that’s only fair. And that’s my pushback.”

WOW.