In 2023, when megastar Beyoncé launched what turned out to be her bought out Renaissance World Tour, many within the Christian group known as for a boycott, rebuking the star’s soul to hell and criticizing anybody that deliberate on dressing up in silver and going to the present.
Now, after Taylor Swift shared a video of her with blotted out eyes and eerily spooky visuals, followers are asking the web and all of those self same holy rollers to maintain the identical vitality.
Selection posted the black and white video from her four-night stint in Paris for the “Love Story” singer’s Eras Tour and plenty of of her followers have been excited to see her. However the celebration of Swift’s scary look had Beyoncé followers railing.
One X person requested, “The place’s the christians speaking in regards to the satan & illuminati like they do on beyoncé?” as one member of the Beyhive requested, “The place’s the christians speaking in regards to the satan & illuminati like they do on beyoncé?”
One other reposted the visible and protested, “If Beyoncé put up a visible like this in the course of the Renaissance tour, they’d’ve mentioned she was a satan worshipper, Illuminati, and ran wild with conspiracy theories, mere SECONDS after it hit the display screen.”
If Beyoncé put up a visible like this in the course of the Renaissance tour, they’d’ve mentioned she was a satan worshipper, Illuminati, and ran wild with conspiracy theories, mere SECONDS after it hit the display screen. 😂 https://t.co/ckQRn5sn5a
— Sassington, M.C. (@MissSassbox) Could 9, 2024
Whereas these followers claimed that Swift has been exempt from spiritual scrutiny, every week in the past, the pop singer was slammed in Texas by an Evangelical religion chief, Shane Pruitt for having “anti-Christian” lyrics.
The nationwide director for the Southern Baptist Conference’s Subsequent Gen Evangelism motion mentioned not solely are her lyrics blasphemous, the chart-topper’s fanbase has made her “virtually a Messiah determine.”
“I’m positively not the minister or mum or dad that has the ‘no secular music’ stance. Additionally, I totally notice unbelievers are going to behave like unbelievers. Nonetheless, there’s a distinction between being secular, and being ANTI-CHRISTIAN,” she wrote in an X put up in April 2024. “In transparency I used to hearken to Taylor, Nonetheless I believe now it’s time to rethink.”
LYRICS MATTER.
Disclaimer, I’m positively not the minister or mum or dad that has the “no secular music” stance. Additionally, I totally notice unbelievers are going to behave like unbelievers.
HOWEVER, there’s a distinction between being secular, and being ANTI-CHRISTIAN.
For instance, right here a…
— Shane Pruitt (@shane_pruitt78) April 23, 2024
Each stars, who are sometimes in contrast, have been ripped by church people.
In February 2023, Prophetess Tiphani Montgomery preached a sermon the place she took intention on the “Halo” singer for in her thoughts what Montgomery claims is main folks astray.
“I’m simply watching quite a bit occurring, issues which can be being mentioned, particularly about entertainers,” she started her “Lined By God” sermon earlier than persevering with, “particularly about entertainers that I even have relationships with, entertainers that I do know off the stage.”
These pastors solely use Beyoncé to succeed in the shaderoom…works everytime #TiphaniMontgomery pic.twitter.com/KZ3jcD7ySc
— Nicole (@Nprezzed) February 12, 2023
“When a witch has a coven it’s usually a small factor,” Montgomery mentioned in her sermon. “Witches’ covens are usually three to seven folks.”
She added, “When it turns into hundreds it’s known as a hive. Y’all part of that woman beehive? And also you name your self a Christian?”
Montgomery then switched her consideration to Beyoncé’s husband, Jay-Z.
“Why do you suppose that man name himself Jay-Hova, it was brief for Jehovah,” the preacher mentioned, earlier than declaring, “Could the dealings of the Lord come across any Christian with a platform that’s utilizing combination.”
After listening to the condemnation, gospel singer and Future’s Little one member Michelle Williams blasted the religion chief.
“I simply want we might pray as publicly for entertainers as we rebuke them and rattling their soul to hell,” she mentioned, “I do know it ain’t my calling mission, umm, to rattling entertainers to hell and to say that they’d drop useless. The satan is a lie.”
“After you have that relationship with Christ, you realize sure issues you’ll do and gained’t do anymore. Identical to you used to pop bottles and drop it’s prefer it’s sizzling and the Lord modified your life, it’s a chance that God will do the identical issues to others,” Williams mentioned.
