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We need to talk about why Kanye’s church isn’t the end of the world

Ezinne Ukoha
5 min readMay 7, 2019

It’s safe to say that Kanye West is still very much canceled. In fact he’s been solidly crossed out with as many streaks of disapproval that punishingly blot out his name beyond recognition.

That being said, his latest project as the roving artist that he unapologetically nurtures, for better or worse, is seemingly causing the kind of backlash that makes some of us ask out loud, “can he just live?”

“And pray?”

It was only a matter of time before Kanye’s dramatized revelation of spiritual unification, under the banner of the Calabasas sun and amongst the greenery of nature and the green pockets of God’s blessed creatures, would come under public scrutiny with the litany of think pieces that aim to discredit an accused con man, who is now misleading a newly-minted congregation.

Kanye is no preacher man by any means, and remarkably none of the blurbs that critique his attempts at self-promotion in the name of the God that’s he’s apparently dishonoring for his own self-interests, have bothered to point out how “Sunday Service” accurately embodies the free-spiritedness and unregulated mantra that mega-churches conveniently avoid because of the obsession with absolute power.

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