‘Marriage, giving have been weaponised in Christianity’ – Gospel singer, Kirk Franklin

The Grammy-winning American gospel singer Kirk Franklin has stated that Western Christianity has weaponised the ideas of marriage, giving, and sexuality.

The “My Life Is In Your Hands” singer, who made an appearance on the “Funky Friday” podcast, revealed that many people are following man’s dogma in the mistaken belief that they are carrying out God’s plan because some Christian ideals have been weaponised.

Kirk bemoaned the fact that some young people’s marital status prevents them from serving as church ministers.

In addition, he made the point that families contributed to the weaponization of marriage in society.

“I believe that marriage, giving and sexuality have been weaponised in Western Christianity,” he said.

“Any woman listening to this can attest in our culture: ‘Don’t be no 30, 35 single black woman and go to the family reunion.’ All the older women are going to look at you and be like, ‘Why are you not married?’

“It’s like a prerequisite for identity and value. If you don’t have a man or kids, then something about you is broken. Do you understand how dysfunctional these messages are and how we superficialise these messages?

“[Apostle] Paul said that marriage is a necessary distraction. I have many friends that were in ministries in church, and the churches told them, ‘If you’re going to be in ministry, you can’t be single.’ So what people do is, that they quickly get married thinking that they’re fulfilling God’s will for their lives but they’re fulfilling man’s dogma.

“You can be single and be used by God. You can be single and have purpose. Being married is not a prerequisite for God’s hand in your life. It’s not. But we’ve weaponised it. And they crucify people when those same marriages failed.”