Nollywood actress and media personality Ariyike Owolagba, better known by her stage as Ariyiike Dimples, has talked about a frustrating event that made her quit going to church.
In an interview with the “Open Up” podcast, Ariyiike Dimples revealed that she had quit attending church for three years when a church elder questioned her sense of style.
The actress claimed that the elderly woman warned her that if she wore a pencil skirt to church, she would burn in hell. She claimed that the woman thought the dressing was offensive.
She said, “In my community church, you see only elderly people. You barely see the young ones. The young ones have gone to other churches. It was too serious. Yes, you can have your doctrines, but there is a way you can simplify it for young people and take them in without judging them.
“The reason I stopped going to church was because I wore a pencil skirt to church and an elderly woman said I will go to hell fire. I was shocked and felt wrongly judged so I stopped going to church for 3 years. And thankfully, I was already out of my parents’ house.
“The woman reported me to my dad. I had to take picture of the skirt and send to my mum to prove that I wasn’t dressing indecently. But my dad believed in the ideology of a community raising a child. So, I chose to avoid the community church so that they won’t see me.”
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