Idol

When it comes to celebrities and Christians, it’s kind of easy to go after the more obvious targets. But as I said before, the Devil is so smart that he’ll find ways of evading detection by those who should know better. The Backstreet Boys tend to encourage this idolatrous devotion by their own fans, to the point where it warrants more criticism. If because they themselves enable it in some way, not just with cruises and fanclubs but that one of them is a Christian and he should know better.

Ladies and gentlemen, I’m talking about Brian Littrell. Littrell is a Christian, well supposed to be one but for some reason he barely if ever encourages the fans to go to church, read devotionals and the Bible and stuff, at least to my knowledge. I guess if he did this, he will get a lot of flack from them and his own colleagues, one of them will be caught in a cheating scandal in the future. That would mean he has to be responsible for their spiritual wellbeing, this is probably why some BSB fans make a habit out of writing pornographic stories about them.

One of them is a Christian or was one herself, but the more she wrote porny stories about the Backstreet Boys the less Christian she got and became a single mother along the way. I feel BSB encourages idolatry in some form or another, given you don’t see them sending their fans to church. It could be argued that their version involves making fans attend concerts, cruises and stuff but they do little about their spiritual health and wellbeing. To the point where the band is stuck with fans who sexualise them a lot, if because they encourage this to an extent.

No wonder why you don’t see Brian Littrell making fans attend church with his bandmates or handing out tracts to them, you might say he’s not forcing his religion onto others but honestly that’s preferable to making them attend their every cruise and concert. That’s why BSB’s guilty of idolatry because they actively encourage this, to the point where one Christian fan turned away from the Lord the more she wrote BSB porn. At the heart of Christianity is faith, at the heart of fandom is idolatry or at least the potential for it.

But that would mean it’s a precipice, a tool the Devil will use to turn people away from the Lord. Brian Littrell may not be a Satanist, but he should put an end to this as a Christian. If they don’t put an end to this, they will face more scandals in the future. Let this be a warning to those who ‘reward’ their fans’ devotion to them, rather than to the Lord God himself. While it’s possible to turn any other band or team into an idol, but with BSB they actively enable and reward idolatry.

This is not good for Littrell because what could’ve been an opportunity to lead fans to God gets wasted on idolatry based on the band itself, no wonder they’re facing so many scandals and why this should stop.