I’m sorry, @favogbuji, but I strongly disagree with you. Igbo culture does not need to evolve by being assimilated into Christianity. If anything, what we should be discussing is how to preserve Ọdịnala Igbo without constantly filtering it through a Christian lens. You cannot keep removing, altering, or redefining traditional practices simply because they do not fit comfortably within Christianity and still call that the preservation of Igbo culture. And this is where the argument becomes contradictory. The Christianity you are trying to reconcile Ọdịnala with is a religion whose teachings explicitly distinguish believers from those who do not share its faith. 2 Corinthians 6:14 says, “Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers.” From a strictly Christian perspective, someone who follows traditional Igbo spirituality is an unbeliever. So why are we trying so hard to make two fundamentally different systems of belief spiritually compatible? If you are Christian, be Christian. If you are an adherent of Ọdịnala, be one. You can respect another person’s belief system without blending the two into something neither tradition originally was. Even Christianity itself warns against being lukewarm. Revelation 3:16 says, “Because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.” My point is not that Christians cannot be Igbo or participate in Igbo culture. Of course they can. Culture and religion are not identical. But there is a difference between participating in Igbo cultural practices and taking elements of Ọdịnala, stripping them of their original spiritual meaning, and then rebuilding them around Christianity. At some point, we have to be honest about what we are preserving. You cannot preserve Ọdịnala by continuously making it conform to a religion that historically rejected it.