Cancel Cancel-Culture
We live in a society that can destroy your reputation in seconds. Every tweet, post, and share that an individual interacts with counts as an extension of themselves. Whether opinion or fact, the mediated crowd observes, interprets, and applies to you what they’ve found. Many times, people benefit from the interpretations extended. Other times, people find themself in the middle of a culture that has excommunicated them from the socially acceptable; this is the reality of cancel-culture.
Cancel-culture is the negligence and complete sever of a person and their thought contributions because of something they did or did not say or do. Found in the middle of cancel-culture is the theological implication of wrestling with what is valuable and what is fraud. Valuable extensions of media and the direction it pivots towards shows a favored topic seemingly magnified by an appropriated society. Who gets to decide on what is appropriate? The majority of the crowd is unapologetic about their volume and voice.
" By canceling people, we dehumanize the reality of their existence as important and purposed. Our value should be set upon in Christ because He is the paid price of our lives (Rom 5:8). "
The value of a person’s contributions voiced in media is investigated and put on trial to see if it is worthy of popular opinion appraisal. If the investigation of the crowd finds the individual guilty of fraudulent opinion-based grounds, they are sent to be canceled by the majority; This ought not to be the way Christians react to the cancel culture methods. More these days, we see cancel-culture infiltrate the culture of Christians today. Christians should instead be people who revisit the media's perception of what is valuable and what is fraud. By canceling people, we dehumanize the reality of their existence as important and purposed. Our value should be set upon Christ because He is the paid price of our lives (Rom 5:8).
Humanity’s commonality IS sin. When we truly understand this, we acknowledge the power of the Christ event and its penetrating weight of walking with people who others “cancel.”
Christians must take cancel-culture by its roots and reiterate the real problem at bay – sin. Instead of canceling others because of a mistake, an opinion contrary to others, or a fault, Christians should embrace the biblical fact of our sinful nature and its weighty outcomes. Of course, some consequences may lead down the lonely path of cancel-culture, but we do not need to be another soul walking away from an opportunity to love like Christ. Cancel culture will remain an exponentially horrid practice of our (not secular only, but also) Christian culture. Humanity’s commonality IS sin. When we truly understand this, we acknowledge the power of the Christ event and its penetrating weight of walking with people who others “cancel.”