ICHEOKU says his offense was that he dared question sexual orientations and preferences and claimed that he can "convert" homosexuals into straights and he was immediately yanked off Youtube; frozen out of the social media video availability and cut off from millions of his followers and parishioners around the world. He is a pastor from Nigeria and an acclaimed "man of God" whose flock are spread throughout the world. But these people can no longer reach their spiritual Shepard to get their souls nourishment through Youtube. His name is Temitope Balogun Joshua abbreviated TB Joshua and he is a global phenom among the Christians who follow his brand of Christianity and teachings. He is said to also have powers of "prophesies, healings, miracles and wonders." He is a spiritualist of some sort.
He has been creating waves with his brand of spiritual christianity for quite some time and frequently makes exaggerated statements which he calls prophesies. But unfortunately majority of these "prophesies" never come to pass including his "prophesy" that Hillary Clinton will win the United States of America presidency in 2016 and that rainfall will wash away the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020 at the beginning of the contagion. Anyway, he has been getting away with the ride for so long until now when he strayed into the arena of the heavily protected and shielded "endangered species: called homosexuals and they got him canceled.
He saw homosexuality as a disease and demonic attack which he can "miraculously" heal their "sufferers" from and started his "conversion" therapy program in his church. According to the story, some homosexuals were allegedly :delivered" from their "demons of homosexuality" and made "wholesome" again as they returned to their biological sexual orientation of being straight. Such tale did not go down well with the homosexual community, particularly their transgender branch and they moved against him. Their campaign was relentless and it kept on piling up until their complaints reached the necessary authorities in Silicon Valley.
Youtube was the first to strike him out, yanking his video programming with the platform off and forever banned him on their platform. They deleted TB Joshua completely by terminating his presence on their platform, thereby blacking him out from the rest of the world of his followers who religiously follow him on Youtube. Without Youtube, he can no longer reach out to the millions of his followers who dutifully watch his religious programming to satisfy their soul's desire for closeness with God. With the termination, the chances of TB Joshua ever getting back on the platform is somewhat closer to minus zero than being hopeful, because he struck at the heart of Wokeism and they hardly ever forgives.
Facebook is still resisting the pressure to also turn off the light on TB Joshua, but they will do just that before too long as the homosexual community is very powerful in Silicon Valley and like shark, when they smell blood they never lets go. ICHEOKU says Facebook will also terminate TB Joshua and ditto Twitter; and every other social media of record because they work and operate in tandem. The same type of people run all the platforms and their cause is the same. Once one of them acts on something, it causes a domino effect on the rest to also do something. So yes, very soon, TB Joshua will share similar fate as President Donald John Trump with a complete banned from social media platforms.
But so far, Facebook has only deleted the "offending" videos but that will not satisfy the homosexual community. They will remain adamant and insist that Facebook take a similar action as Youtube until Facebook buckles and it will buckle. Failure of Facebook to also permanently ban TB Joshua will make Youtube appear to have acted without a reason and it is not an acceptable position to be isolated in. So, TB Joshua will be dealt the total eclipse measure before too long as all the social platforms share a common trait, they silence any viewpoint that does not agree with the wishes of their "community" and their community is literary the same type of people.
ICHEOKU says the biggest disappointment in all these is that these social media platforms are American companies turned global conglomerates which are engaging in this selective viewpoint restraint of speech without a uniform standard. Why would an attack on the church or christianity or even the broader religion be permitted, but an attack on homosexuals be prohibitively punished? Where is the freedom which America constantly preaches to the world when their sanctimonious adumbration does not apply to their own American companies which selectively swings the hammer as it suits their narrative? Where is the American democratic ideals of free speech and giving people the opportunity to first defend themselves before being punished when these social media platforms can on a whiff, just cancel anyone without even providing the person the opportunity to defend his charges?
But they have become a "too big to fail" minders of the world, dictating what is allowed or not allowed speech and there is no one cap fits all operating standards of enforcement. They have become the proverbial judge, the jury and the advocate; or as in this case, also the prosecutor and the executioner. They have a special group of people they pander to, the only controlling authority on how they wield their big stick. TB Joshua said what the group did not want to hear and it was automatic lights out on him and he was immediately blacked out from millions of his followers all over the world. They have no care in the world that millions of people sustain their spirituality from TB Joshua and that his teachings could have helped save some souls threatening suicide or that his preachings could have helped comfort some people in dire straits and struggling through life's stresses. What an autocratic disposition.
ICHEOKU says is not by this piece holding any brief particularly for TB Joshua, but that things should be done right and proper across the board, regardless of anyone's peculiar sentiment. It is all about making necessary accommodations for everyone and taking into consideration the needs of both sides of the disputation. If some people were offended by whatever TB Joshua said or did, why not just remove the offensive content like a surgeon would, do a pinprick take out of diseased body part. Why kill everything just because they can. How about the millions of people who depend on TB Joshua's programming to get through their daily life grind. Why were this group not considered and factored in while making the decision to cancel him. But no, he spoke the "forbidden" words and Wokesters are gun-ho mad and in order to appease them, TB Joshua has to be completely deleted.
ICHEOKU says it is not right as such is an overkill. If a man whose video has been viewed over 600 million times and who has more than five million followers, has one or two videos which went out of sync, those few videos should have been excised but not the entire catalogue. Things of spirituality matters so much to their adherents and to some, it is literary the oxygen in their lungs of survival, without which they will feel like a fish out of water. It is possible that those who make the decisions in those social media platforms are not religious or spiritual, but they should not live their lives or make decisions in isolation, believing that everybody is like them or that the world can get along without religion and spirituality.
If they don't care about a pastor and his teachings or don't believe in God and salvation through Jesus Christ or even denounce heaven and hell as fable or condemn religion in its entirety as a fantastical nonsense, they should at least be mindful and appreciate the fact that some other people hold contrary view. One man's meat is another man's poison and expecting the over 8 billion human beings on earth to share one ideological believe or philosophical viewpoint is foolishness defined. Some people accept homosexuality as a way of life and by the same token, those on the other side of the divide should also be allowed to reserve their rights to disagree or hold tight to their being straight. If what Pastor TB Joshua is preaching or the adherence to religion or even believe in God is pure gibberish to the Woke regime, it does not make it right to force the people on the other side of the divide to concede their own strongly held opinion to the contrary.
A meeting of the ground is preferable where each side is allowed to hold unto whatever opinion they have, provided they keep it to themselves and not see the other side as being idiotic and imbecilic for holding a contrary opinion. If fully grown up adults walk into a place of worship, believing that they are afflicted or possessed by whatever demon, they should be allowed to hold their belief no matter how irrational it might seem. Why is "conversion" therapy so touchy an issue one may ask? That it is said to exist or works does not mean that it exists or works; and even if it works, nobody has ordered every homosexual into a "conversion" laboratory or as in this case, into TB Joshua's proven grounds to be delivered of their "monstrosity". So, why all the fuss leading up to termination of a religious pastor's programming on Youtube?
So, TB Joshua indulged in "conversion" therapy and committed an unpardonable sin against Wokeism, but he did not ordere every homosexual on planet earth to come to his church or tabernacle to be "delivered" of their "demons of homosexuality". He also did not ban homosexuals from attending his church and ICHEOKU strongly believes that some members of his Synagogue of Nations are possibly homosexuals and even transgenders. It would have been a different thing had TB Joshua rained curses on homosexuals or banned them from worshiping at his church or castigated and disparaged them as hell bound sinners. But he did none of these and as he said, he deals with the sin and not the sinners, as only God will judge who lived a sinful life at the end.
ICHEOKU says Youtube should have been more measured in dishing out its termination punishment to TB Joshua, taking into cognizance the fact that millions of people depend on him for their spiritual nourishments and healing. These faithfuls should not just be thrown into the wilderness of spiritual darkness just because some gay group complained about a few videos which they deemed offensive to their cause. Moreso, for a man who has made thousands of videos, it is rather an overkill punishing him for a few "stray" videos. Youtube should therefore please restore TB Joshua's availability on their platform and just yank the offending videos like Facebook did. It is the right thing to do and Youtube should do the right thing both for TB Joshua and for his millions of followers. #RestoreTBJoshuaOnYoutube
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