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The Gospel according to Taylor Swift
Premier Christianity ^ | 01/31/2024 | Martin Saunders

Posted on 02/06/2024 6:46:13 PM PST by Drew68

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Very long article on the complicated Christianity of Taylor Swift, a self-indetified Christian, and the most popular and influential celebrity in the world at this moment.
1 posted on 02/06/2024 6:46:13 PM PST by Drew68
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I don’t enjoy her music.
And as far as I can tell her lyrics are largely about the joy of having an overly inflated ego while repeatedly making bad choices in men.


2 posted on 02/06/2024 6:53:43 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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A long winded pile of steaming poop. Nancy Pelosi is a self- identifying Catholic and...? To make Taylor Swift out to be some sort of stealth Christian evangelist is stretching all bounds of credulity.


3 posted on 02/06/2024 6:53:47 PM PST by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: Right Brother

Exactly- the little Tart is a Christian like President Retard (her buddy) is a Catholic while he howls for abortion


4 posted on 02/06/2024 6:56:14 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Drew68

Baby-killers aren’t Christians.


5 posted on 02/06/2024 6:57:25 PM PST by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: Right Brother
Nancy Pelosi is a self- identifying Catholic

Nancy Pelosi wasn't the most popular woman in the world with millions upon millions of adoring fans.

Taylor Swift claiming to identify as a Christian, even if she might not be our definition of a Christian, is kinda a big deal.

6 posted on 02/06/2024 6:57:29 PM PST by Drew68 (Never forget that every person responsible for the nation's COVID policies totally got away with it.)
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To: Drew68

I could be missing a lot since I believe I have never heard Talyor Swift’s music and know nothing about her except for the fact that she is raking it in and is ubiquitous in her availability and media appearances. She may be an artist, I wouldn’t know. But a small voice tells me she may be a masterful media superstar promotion project that worked perfectly. Just sayin’. I do not care either way. And it is a fool’s errand to worry about how she or her influence plays in an election. Hopefully, Trump will ignore the bait.


7 posted on 02/06/2024 6:57:31 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Drew68

Tracy Chapman has been on my iPod for years; I’d never dream of putting Swift on it.


8 posted on 02/06/2024 7:01:10 PM PST by JZelle
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To: Drew68

I bet she belongs to the Church of Shack Up


9 posted on 02/06/2024 7:01:54 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Drew68

I like her. She is just fine.


10 posted on 02/06/2024 7:23:48 PM PST by bosco24
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To: bimboeruption

That’s right.


11 posted on 02/06/2024 7:37:02 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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I like her. She is just fine.

I do too. I like her music. I think that "1989" is one of the greatest pop albums of all times.

I think she's largely a good influence on young women. 99% of her lyrics are PG-rated. She's modest. She doesn't have any tattoos. She isn't dating a roster of scowling black rappers.

Her courtship with Jason Kelse is virtuous and traditional (the type of stuff that conservatives used to cheer).

Even her recent wokeness feels forced and disingenuous. Recall Swift was largely apolitical up until around 2018. She didn't endorse Hillary in 2016 much to the outrage of the Left who slandered her a "Nazi-enabler" and "closet Trump supporter." She was threatened with cancellation unless she fell in line.

So she did, endorsing a handful of Democrats in 2018 and Biden in 2020. She'll probably endorse him again in 2024. I get it. Entertainers are Democrats. But it's clearly not enthusiastic. Like Havel's greengrocer, she utters the party slogans but that's about it.

12 posted on 02/06/2024 7:47:45 PM PST by Drew68 (Never forget that every person responsible for the nation's COVID policies totally got away with it.)
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Her courtship with Jason Kelse

That would be Swift's courtship with Jason's brother, Travis Kelce.

13 posted on 02/06/2024 7:49:14 PM PST by Drew68 (Never forget that every person responsible for the nation's COVID policies totally got away with it.)
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>Taylor Swift claiming to identify as a Christian, even if she might not be our definition of a Christian, is kinda a big deal.<

It’s a BAD deal.

She’s deceiving people who don’t know the Word of God.


14 posted on 02/06/2024 7:49:48 PM PST by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: Drew68

I don’t know much about this young woman, but she seems to be comfortable in her skin.

Good for her.

That cannot be easy.


15 posted on 02/06/2024 7:52:59 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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Just as a reminder, think of all those reaching world stardom only to self-destruct.

Lets not amplify this action on FR.

I am talking to you Drew.


16 posted on 02/06/2024 7:57:17 PM PST by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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It’s a BAD deal. She’s deceiving people who don’t know the Word of God.

The Christianity that Taylor Swift practices is the exact same flavor of Christianity that the mainstream majority of white American Protestants practice.

17 posted on 02/06/2024 7:57:49 PM PST by Drew68 (Never forget that every person responsible for the nation's COVID policies totally got away with it.)
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I've never even heard one of her songs. A year ago, I had never heard of her.

As far as I know, she's never said or done anything obnoxious.

She's someone who brings a lot of happiness to a lot of decent people. She's also a pretty girl, and I like looking at pretty girls.

I don't understand why people hate her so much.

18 posted on 02/06/2024 8:00:51 PM PST by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Might as well learn to enjoy her & her music because by this time next year, Alejandro Mayorkas may well be “person of the year”.


19 posted on 02/06/2024 9:00:23 PM PST by oldtech
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To: Drew68

I guess she’s more popular than Jesus - to coin a phrase from John Lennon


20 posted on 02/07/2024 2:49:34 AM PST by 11th_VA (Celebrate Climate Change !!!)
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