Posted by Anonymous on 2024/04/15 under Family Dad got angry because I prefer to sit in a part of the church where I'm not constantly being recorded and broadcasted by the media team. A harmless personal preference that did not interrupt my ability to worship spiritually participate in the service. To avoid the cameras too, though this was more because I just felt a bit lazy, I handed my offering to a Steward (who is going to simply compile into the rest of the offereings from the congregation). As opposed to walking/dancing to the basket at the front of the church to drop the offerings. Apparently, that means I'm not taking Christ seriously according to them. I guess f*** the people who give offerings online (something the church allows). TL;DR- I may not be able to return to Canada because based on the above bulls***, my parents are ordering that I must sit with them at church (at a spot that receives a lot of the camera focus). F*** my preference to not be zoomed in on and blasted on Youtube and TV. Now, this is where I draw a line. I'm not going to comply next week. Their response will definitely be to not let me back into Canada. Perhaps even worse, they might kick out to go live on my own with zero survival skills for Nigeria. Just had to vent unto a text board since I can't so so with them.
Barely waited for me to explain why I prefer not to be recorded. He and mum just started attacking me and making up reasons they think I prefer to not be recorded and suggested i'm abnormal/sick. Like privacy is a bad thing.
Dad goes on to claim that I spend most of the service on my phone and using earpieces. A blatant lie because my wired ear piece is always in my pocket except when I'm home. And I only used my phone once to read a bible reference that was made during the sermon.
Then they started linking my privacy preference to my social issues and why I'm failing at life.
Then he brought up an incident the previous day (saturday) where I was slow to shake a person's hand. I was eating a burger at that time with my two hands for f***'s sake. Hence my slow speed. I was caught in surprise and wasn't sure his hands or mine were clean.
He goes further to claim that my "abnormal" social behaviour is why he can't get me a job and why a staff of his whom I worked with in March on a Solar installation project, isn't calling me for new jobs. I gues he'll just assume rather than realise that I got along well with the staff and asked questions during the project to learn more.
I'm also ordered to not take my phone to church, based on my dad's false claim that I spend the whole service on it.