Why Christians Shouldn't Cancel People
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
How should a Christian react to “cancel culture”?
Chances are that if you’ve been on social media or listened to the news in the past year, you’ve heard of “cancel culture.” Cancel culture is that practice of boycotting a person or group of people because of controversial actions or opinions. While it might have a fancy new name, this is nothing new to history. Every time period has had some individuals or practices that society deems as controversial or questionable. But are we supposed to practice this kind of behavior as Christians?
Today, Fr. Mike talks about cancel culture, and how we as Christians are called to respond to it.
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm sure at this point in life, |
| 0:01.5 | you've already heard about this thing called cancel culture |
| 0:03.8 | or cancellations. |
| 0:04.6 | I wanna take a moment and just ask, |
| 0:06.0 | okay, what is this? |
| 0:07.2 | How do we understand it? |
| 0:08.0 | Is it good? Is it bad? |
| 0:08.8 | Is it something we should do? |
| 0:09.7 | Something we shouldn't do? |
| 0:10.9 | Hi, my name is Fala Mike Schmitz and this is The Sentry Presents. |
| 0:21.6 | Cancel culture is basically the boycotting or shunning of an individual |
| 0:25.6 | or a group of people based off of things they've said or things they've done |
| 0:29.6 | that have been deemed questionable or controversial. |
| 0:31.8 | That is a paraphrase of a definition from Wikipedia. |
| 0:33.8 | Thank you, Wikipedia. |
| 0:35.0 | So again, it's the boycotting or shunning of an individual or group of people |
| 0:40.1 | based off of things they've said or things they've done that have been deemed questionable |
| 0:43.8 | or controversial. |
| 0:44.8 | And if we look at that definition, what we see is that that happens all the time. |
| 0:49.6 | Like that happens in every culture, every culture throughout time, throughout the entire |
| 0:54.0 | world has had certain behaviors that it has deemed questionable or controversial and |
| 0:59.6 | has ways of dealing with that, right? |
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