Abimbola AdelakunSo far this week, more than two million Christians worldwide have signed a petition demanding streaming services provider, Netflix, to pull a comedy special that portrays Jesus Christ as gay. At the Nigerian end, the Pastor of Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleman, also started a campaign urging Christians to “cancel” Netflix. Those religions have not fully recovered from the abuse of their faith, and Christians have not apologised either. In 1988, Christians also took offence over the depiction of Jesus in the Martin Scorsese film, The Last Temptation of Jesus. While the controversy of Jesus’ representation raged, Christians picketed theatres and mobilised other faithful to boycott cinemas.

Source: Punch December 19, 2019 02:15 UTC