Now THAT'S bringing the fire and brimstone back!
Posted on 05/15/2024 6:03:20 PM PDT by Morgana
A 600-year-old church in southern Germany drew some 1,200 people to a Taylor Swift-themed worship service on Sunday, local media reported.
Heidelberg’s famous Church of the Holy Spirit, originally Catholic and now Protestant, hosted a liturgical service bearing the title “Anti-Hero — Taylor Swift Church Service,” in an effort to attract younger people, Deutsche Welle (DW) reported.
“The Church of the Holy Spirit has always been a place of encounter and exchange,” said Heidelberg Pastor Christof Ellsiepen. “That’s why a pop-music religious service fits so perfectly. With it, we are giving space to the questions and issues that occupy the younger generation.”
For his part, parish pastor Vincenzo Petracca underscored Swift’s attachment to Christianity in everyday life, highlighting her treatment of women’s rights, racism, and gender equality.
As if to back up the latter, Sunday’s service featured a rainbow banner hung behind the musicians, proclaiming that the church welcomes “all sizes, all colours, all cultures, all sexes, all beliefs, all religions, all ages, all types, all people.”
Sunday’s congregation, which skewed younger and more female than usual, was treated to a live performance of six Swift songs by Tine Weichmann — a singer originally from Hamburg and now a professor of church music in Heidelberg — and her band.
In what was described as one of the most “emotionally stirring” moments of the service, Weichmann and her band performed, “Soon You’ll Get Better,” a song Swift wrote for her mother, who had been diagnosed with cancer.
“Holy orange bottles, each night I pray to you,” read the lyrics. “Desperate people find faith, so now I pray to Jesus, too.”
Swift’s Christianity or lack thereof has been the topic of heated debate among U.S. Christians.
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Now THAT'S bringing the fire and brimstone back!
Taylor, remember, life is Swift, and then your judgement.
-God
I wonder if they welcome traditional Christians. (Maybe, as silent members of the congregation, but certainly NOT in a leadership or speaking role.)
Better caption for my photo above:
"Joel Osteen unveils new Youth Outreach strategy."
Germany today is even more degenerate than the times of the Weimar Republic.
Where we are:📖
Leviticus 19:29 — American Standard Version (ASV) 29 “Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness “
The Bee will go out of business at this rate.
If I were her, I would be infinitely embarassed before God.
A post-Christian “church”.
When I read the title I thought she was attending the service.
Too bad they hear Taylor Swift but nothing about Jesus who is their only hope.
She puts on demonic shows. I would stay far away from that church.
What is it with this Swift woman? Why does she have such huge notoriety? She’s a pop singer, right? There’s got to be more. I don’t keep up with current pop culture that closely. Did she announce she’s close to a cure for cancer or something?
many freepers love and defend soft porn....it drives me crazy because they all think their these great patriots and Christians..
What is it with this Swift woman? Why does she have such huge notoriety? She’s a pop singer, right? There’s got to be more. I don’t keep up with current pop culture that closely. Did she announce she’s close to a cure for cancer or something?
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I have never seen or heard her music, and I hope I never do. She is a somewhat attractive and dynamic performer, I have read. Must be playing to the lowest class of consumer, and then the consumers all glom on. My best guess. Seems like a recipe for commercial success while on this earth.
This reminds me of the animated Scott Pilgrim series (”Scott Pilgrim Takes Off”), where the lead singer of The Clash at Demonhead shows up to a funeral and hijacks the whole thing.
That’s so weird.
/Massive eyeroll
James Version of Ezekiel 28:13 states of Lucifer:, “The workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.”
King James Version of Ezekiel 28:13 of Lucifer
“The workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.”
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