Nollywood Ariyike Owolagba, popularly known as Ariyiike Dimples, has revealed why she stopped attending church.
Featuring in a recent episode of the Open Up podcast, the movie star shared that she stopped going to church for three years after a church elder questioned her fashion sense.
She stated that the elder told her she would go to hell for wearing a pencil skirt to church, which the elder considered indecent.
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The actress said she was frustrated by the experience and quit church.
“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 to simplify them for young people and present them without judgment.
“The reason I stopped going to church was that I wore a pencil skirt to church and an elderly woman said I would go to hellfire. 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 a picture of the skirt and send it 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,” she recalled.
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Ariyiike Dimples, however, added that she is still a practicing Christian despite quitting church.