Jealousy, Jealousy

Celestial said that a good number of American Evangelicals have made an idol out of Donald Trump, to the point of making God so jealous that he’s going to take him out once and for all. It’s like how many Evangelicals believe that Trump has been sent by God to deal with America’s problems, when in reality he promoted himself there and manages to manipulate people into loving him more. I feel among many Evangelicals, there’s the belief that he’s one of us. Even though in reality he fails to be a good Christian, does things that are anti-Christian and so on.

It’s even odder still how a number of Evangelicals hate presidents who follow God’s teachings well like Jimmy Carter, yet they give Donald Trump grace for whatever he does. When it comes to Donald Trump, they’ve lowered their standards to satiate his pride or something. Very low standards at other times when it comes to Donald Trump, but it’s easier for Evangelicals to be swayed by a cheating braggart than by a Christian who lives up to Godly laws and expectations. That a Christian often risks being rejected by their community and family would reveal the real reason why Trump has this following.

Donald Trump isn’t so much of a King Cyrus but rather a King Saul: an amoral king who befits an amoral community, that’s why scandals keep on piling on top of each other the more they attract Trump to them. It is possible that Donald Trump may have been sent to them, but the more they make an idol out of him the more God will take him away. Mostly for what they’ve done to who was once God’s gift, the sins they keep on committing that no sooner or latter Trump will be gone. He will be shot to death by liberals, who can’t stand him wanting to be president again.

Celestial even said that Kamala Harris will become US president instead, especially once Joe Biden gets sent to the nursing home and then die. Donald Trump will get a different comeuppance, mostly due to his pride that he’s never going to make it out alive. He wallows in pride for as long as people make an idol out of him, that this is the real reason why God will take him away when he does.

Bad Role Models

When it comes to whether or not Taylor Swift is a good role model herself, early on in her career she was rather refreshing in a sea full of blatantly sexualised popstars like Britney Spears in her heyday or her colleague and contemporary Christina Aguilera. Here was a young female musician who writes her own songs, has a wholesome public image and is closer in age to many young listeners at the time. It’s not hard to imagine that others have latched onto her, perhaps in a way she likes if she became so proud of her herself that she enables her fans’ adoration and idolatry of her.

Perhaps this is where her troubles began, especially the more her activism turn out to be questionable. First off is cultural appropriation which is the performative interest in and disrespectful use of an oppressed or marginalised culture, as evidenced by her appropriating aspects of African American culture, but barely uses or hangs out a lot with actual African American musicians nor does she openly acknowledge their influence on her either. Then comes her supposed feminism, which is meant to empower women but excludes women who don’t fit the mold or her preference if you will.

For a character who has built her public image off of being wholesome and desexualised, it’s surprising why she never sticks to any one man for a long time and get married. She’s gone from hanging out with Joe Jonas to Matt Healy to Travis Kelce, that it’s shocking to me why she never settled down with any one of them, some of her exes may have moved on from her and married other women instead. Joe Jonas for one married Sophie Turner and had children with her, until their divorce some time ago.

One would only wonder if she may not be marriage material herself, if her own ex-boyfriends knew about that then the discrepancy between her, ahem, private life and her public image becomes more jarring. Her would be rival Katy Perry doesn’t dump that many men and manages to settle into parenthood well, as far as I know about her and I do remember this tidbit of her knitting in her spare time. Ironic to think that despite her sexualised public image, Katy Perry may not be that outrageous in person and is possibly very vanilla in other regards.

So it seems people aren’t always what they seem to be, in the case with Taylor Swift she might not be that much of a girl next door in private. If you believe somebody like Angela Marie Ucci, Swift might actually indulge in the occult and witchcraft herself. To the point where she bewitches people in ways that catch them off-guard, perhaps it does go a long way explaining why people forget what really happened in her concerts. Or how one of her songs, Willow, sounds like a spell enough to bewitch other people with.

Maybe it explains why Taylor Swift might not be much of a good role model, she probably isn’t much of a good person in private if somebody had the displeasure of encountering her on a bad day or something. As I said before about her that looking back, it’s not hard to see why she got an audience. She was rather refreshing, brand-new and safe for families to enjoy with their children. But this is where it gets tawdry, if because it actually makes her potential to do worse all the more shocking.

Taylor Swift may try to put on a show and guise of herself as wholesome, though it seems it’s starting to come off. Not in ways she likes herself.

Maneater

Celestial had some words to say, some of which seems misogynistic, others are shocking yet prescient. She said that Beyonce will die in the near future, mostly as a comeuppance for her sins. Don’t let a witch to live, if Beyonce herself is one. But her demise will be the most shocking, given how widely accepted and beloved she is by many. Bigger than other celebrities, even if they have come close themselves. Celebrities will be taken away whenever they enable their fans’ idolatry of them, that no sooner or later God will take them down because he is jealous especially when their fans don’t repent in any way.

Although God is merciful and kind, he is also jealous and doesn’t want anybody or anything to get in the way of worshiping him alone. So Beyonce will really be taken away, albeit in a way that makes a lot of headlines. The fact that there is a church dedicated to her makes you wonder how much she enables idolatry of her by her fans, how it can be applied to any other celebrity who does the same or similar things. I have said similar things about the Backstreet Boys, which is more shameful as one of them is a practising Christian.

But when he and his band mates all show up as demons onstage in Mexico, that’s when you know a tree by its fruits. Brian Littrell is not a man who bears good fruit, if because he enables his fans’ idolatry of his band so much that he’s actually arrogant because of this. Same thing goes for all his band members, two of them will be involved in criminal activity when scandals hit. Now onto women who feel the need to own and express their sexuality, they all have the spirit of Jezebel in them whenever they do these things. Not just showing off their bodies a lot, but also getting into any sexual activity imaginable.

They are practically and essentially whorish, no matter how empowering it appears for them. In reality they are living in bondage of their immodesty, lust and so on because no matter what they do they get addicted to it and it really hurts their moral and spiritual health a lot. They are not strong, empowered and powerful women; they are weak, powerless and disempowered by their sins. They bought into the Devil’s lies, thinking they will know good and evil when they bring trouble onto themselves. The problems are all on them when they do these things.

If you wanted me to be very honest, a woman who sexualises herself a lot (especially in public), it tends to be creepy and disgusting. Wearing shorts is one thing since that’s something athletes do a lot when playing sports like sprinting, marathon, football and rugby, it’s another to publicly sexualise yourself that as I remember this video on Tumblr, anybody who does that are disrespecting themselves. Disrespecting God, disrespecting the image made in his likeness. Disrespecting themselves all the way when they do any or many of these things.

Then we get to the part where America sinks into the ocean and waters, piece by piece and bit by bit, until there’s no more of it. Even if it were to remain recognisable enough in the future, it would be really hard to find any remaining American city if because due to a pandemic of sinkholes they’ll all drown and disappear forever. Nobody will know where Minneapolis and St Paul are, they’ve disappeared into the sea. New York will drown, most of Florida will drown as water levels rise. I even had a dream of the Backstreet Boys singing while sea levels rise. As if they themselves aren’t aware of the watery graves they’ll be put into.

For a nation that prides in its Christian heritage and faith in God, it doesn’t act accordingly to what it says the more witchcraft and idolatry are practised there. Bad enough it always never lives up to what it purports itself to be, to the point where its influence all over the world will be undone and it will be no more in many ways. Nobody will remember America, especially among the young. Those who do are going to be pensioners and this disappears with every subsequent generation, with Millennials and Genzers being the last generations to know America when it was a superpower.

How the might have fallen by then when my grandchildren reach age of majority, they will never know what America was like before. Much of it has either disappeared into the ocean or waters or disappeared from public consciousness, maybe a bit of both in most regards if her words are to come to pass. America has fallen, has fallen; is fallen.

I Put A Spell On You

Celestial has a prophecy about what will happen to the popstar Beyonce, going on saying that she’s going to meet an untimely death in the future for her actions. Some of which involves witchcraft and human sacrifice that she even killed somebody else’s cat and tried to threaten them with sorcery, you should know what Celestial has been saying about her for some time. That Beyonce delights in being worshipped as an idol says a lot about her pride, so if she dies then her pride dies with her. Pride goes before the fall, so it seems it’s true for her and other celebrities who share the same sentiment.

Another has done the same thing but with Taylor Swift and who knows if she does the same sort of ritual Beyonce has been assumed of doing, if she did then it shouldn’t come as a surprise if certain sex acts aren’t just forbidden by God but also used in witchcraft in some way. Which is the point of her blog that people will do anything and everything, including anal sex of all things, when doing witchcraft at all and she even said that a scandal will befall the Backstreet Boys when it comes to this sex act. I even think Brian Littrell, one of the Backstreet Boys, might also be prideful in the sense that he relishes the attention his fans give to his band.

But as a Christian he shouldn’t be condoning this, since it’s practically idolatry in the sense of worshipping something else other than God. Backstreet Boys fans may not worship the band at first glance, but it is idolatry in the sense that they prioritise it above God. They put too much faith in the band to the point where its members end up enabling this behaviour, because it tends to make them really proud and it would be disturbing if they all have the audacity to show up as demons just to play the song ‘Everybody’. As if Brian Littrell doesn’t really worship God himself, given he basks in the attention his fans give to him and his band.

That Celestial points out Beyonce practises witchcraft makes me wonder how widespread this practice is among many musicians, so much so that there’s a secular book pointing this out but with other musicians instead. It’s called ‘Season of the Witch’ which has a section or chapter on David Bowie’s involvement in the occult, that Taylor Swift (of all people) also turned out to be into witchcraft or at least sympathetic to it in some way shows you how common this turns out to be. Even if not all musicians do this, there are those who do honour God but it seems for others what the world offers is an easy way out.

Even if it doesn’t offer the best answer to their problems, or in Littrell’s case, makes it easy to get sucked in despite one’s conscience going against this. Mr Littrell might as well be a good case of how the Bible warned about not allowing God’s people to hang out with the ungodly for long, especially if they turn out to be a bad influence that no sooner or later they fall away. Solomon fell into this trap and had to repent in some way with the Book of Ecclesiastes, unfortunately Mr Littrell never bothered pulling a Solomon to get out of there. To the point where whenever he worships God, it feels half-hearted because of his worldliness.

While there are truly godly musicians who do honour God a lot, the same can’t be said of Beyonce, Swift and even Brian Littrell because their hearts are far from him. They either do or condone things forbidden in the Bible, two practise witchcraft and all three condone idolatry as it feeds into their pride. Beyonce even has a church mass dedicated to her, which is how idolatrous it practically and essentially is. It’s even worse if a Christian like Brian Littrell condones his fans’ idolatry of the band, if because he either knows better or should know better given his conscience and faith in God.

I’m afraid he and his band will also face an untimely death, by drowning if part of Florida ever falls into the ocean because of their actions. It’s not wrong to have supportive fans but when you condone and enable your fans’ idolatry of yourself, it seems like you secretly want to be this worshipped and adored by many people. It’s not just a Beyonce problem, it’s not just a Taylor Swift problem. It’s also the very problem with the Backstreet Boys, as one of them is a Christian and should know better but unfortunately never got around to convict and put and end to this.

I also wonder if other musicians like David Bowie and Michael Jackson may have also condoned idolatry, given it feeds into their pride in a lot of ways and when both turn out to be involved in the occult in some way then they really have given themselves to the world. One can be in the world but not of the world, which’s something these musicians fail to do on a consistent basis. The world offers a lot of things that are attractive, but if the first will be the last and the last will be the first then what it offers is second best. God will use anything to shame the powerful and mighty, he has done this with his own son being working class.

He can shame these celebrities when he needs to, given what they’ve done is deplorable considering their Christian backgrounds. That the Backstreet Boys will dress up as demons in a forthcoming concert makes you wonder which supernatural figure they are more loyal to, it’s not going to be God because that would mean their hearts are far from him. Most surprisingly it’s Brian Littrell who might turn out to be rather half-hearted in his devotion to the Lord, due to his own pride that he secretly revels in the attention his fans give to him and his band. The Backstreet Boys will also meet an untimely fate of sorts.

Don’t let a witch to live, so it is true for these celebrities. David Bowie died from cancer, Michael Jackson from an overdose. Same with Prince, who even alludes to the Devil a lot. This too will befall Taylor Swift, Beyonce Knowles and the Backstreet Boys in the near future.

Heatwave

I feel if Christians object to anything evil in Marvel and DC Comics, it’s usually either in the lines of the occult or homosexuality but not if said stories actually depict the Devil in a more heroic light. Especially when it comes to characters like Daredevil (who even dresses like the Devil himself), Blue Devil, Damian (Son of Satan) and Illyana Rasputina, which all constitute the elephants in the room or perhaps whales as whales are bigger than elephants. The fact that the Devil can appear as an angel of light so appearing as a superhero is within his reach, so much so he took advantage of it and aroused as little controversy from Christians as possible.

Kind of unfortunate how many Christians resort to the easier targets, but forget the Devil hiding in Marvel Comics in plain sight. I think it’s got to do with the way the Devil makes himself appear so lovable and innocent, especially with characters like Matt Murdock (who is blind by the way) that it can be this easy to forget his actual intention. Matt Murdock seems like a lovable figure, he is disabled twice by visual impairment and mental health issues, he strives to do the right thing but the problem is not only does he dress like the Devil he lives in Hell’s Kitchen.

Although Hell’s Kitchen is a real place, but since Satan lives in Hell one would wonder if this is his way of catching people off-guard as to remain unnoticed by Christians for longer than it should. What’s more innocent to any Christian than a superhero? This is how the Devil manages to avoid much attention from Christians when it should have, it seems like he’ll do anything to tempt people into loving and worshipping him (unfortunately I have, so I lost dogs along the way). Becoming a Daredevil fan is one way of the Devil making somebody love him, which is no good whatever you look at it this way.

When it comes to something like Marvel Comics, when characters like Damian, Daredevil and Mephisto are taken in aggregate they all constitute a parody of the Holy Trinity. Damian Hellstrom is the Son of Satan, so this makes Daredevil Satan the Father and Mephisto Satan the Unholy Spirit. One would wonder if other characters like Illyana and Satana vie for being the Devil’s equivalent to the Virgin Mary in some way, but whatever you look at it it seems the Devil has found a way to influence people without being noticed much. Surprisingly not by most Christians.

Which means they’ve been so seduced by the Devil that they don’t know what’s been done to them, that they forget which else to target for promoting evil in some way that it’s not a surprise that superheroes for most of the part don’t constitute a major target for them even when some qualify. I believe there are other ways the Devil makes something innocent undermine Christian/Biblical values, but where they also fly under Christians’ radar. Especially in Marvel when it comes to certain characters like Kate Pryde for instance.

This character has a habit of losing her temper a lot and repeatedly gets into fights with Professor Charles Xavier, who’s not only older but also the figurehead of his team the X-Men (which she is a part of). The fact that younger people are instructed to respect older people is something Kate defies a lot, is something Christians should also take notice of but never got around to because of how the Devil distracted them a lot. So you have something like X-Men, another story that more Christians should object to for a number of reasons they do with others, but something that flies under their radar far longer than it should have.

(It’s also surprising that Kate never gets any major repercussions for her disobedience to Xavier, in fact she often gets what she wants is kind of anti-Biblical when you think about it.)

The fact that one of the X-Men’s major enemies is a Christian pastor is something more Christians should notice, if because one of the writers working there might have an anti-Christian agenda. This might’ve been covered by a video series before, but I feel the X-Men’s just as deserving of the scorn Harry Potter unfairly gets by many Christians. I don’t even like Harry Potter but even then it’s unfair that it gets blamed a lot for things like witchcraft, when X-Men has done something similar and promotes more things Christians object to like evolution and even Catholicism. It’s surprising why they never bothered to criticise X-Men the same way.

Let alone in larger numbers that it deserves to, but that would mean the Devil caught them off-guard. To the point where they don’t even notice whenever he does make an appearance in something like Marvel Comics, especially when he makes himself into a superhero like Daredevil for instance. He’s even known as the Guardian Devil, where guardian angel should’ve been. Logically the Devil is the angel without fear of God, you should know this by now. At this point, we should really raise the bar for what is good and acceptable to God. We can’t just let DC Comics and Marvel get away with having demon heroes around.

If we can’t let them get away with things like witchcraft and LGBTQ matters, we shouldn’t also let them get away with blatantly anti-Christian characters, bratty heroes who get no repercussions for their actions and having demonic heroes around. But the fact that superhero media seems so innocent and lovable, as if our bar for what is good and acceptable to God has lowered a lot. The fact that we get distracted by whatever we like makes it this easy to lower the bar for what is good and pure, regardless if it manages to make somebody sin in one way or another. One could lust at an artbook, especially for the nudes.

The fact that others didn’t object to the other things I did, especially if it seems innocent like an art book makes me think their bar is low in some situations. Lower than it should be, because that’s how the Devil distracts us by presenting us something innocent and readily sanctioned. If the Devil is clever then he’s clever enough to present us something innocent, the better to tempt us this way and sometimes it could involve superheroes as he would with art books. We shouldn’t make stuff that causes others to stumble, but that involves being more careful with what we do.

But if many of these publishers and corporations consecrate their stuff to the Devil, then it’s as if they’re deliberately out to destroy as much people as they can. It needn’t to be overtly violent or pornographic to get them to sin; I think the more innocent something worldly and sinful it appears to be, the more deceptive it gets as to let the Devil get a hold of us. And if somebody like Walt Disney purposefully created something to spiritually destroy people with, then he has succeeded in lowering people’s bars for what is pure and holy. People like Stan Lee have continued this in some way.

Especially when it comes to enabling people’s idolatry of fictional characters like Spider-Man and Iron Man, even if they themselves weren’t based on demons but if they encourage idolatry of them then it’s as if they give themselves to the Devil and do whatever he wants them to do. That’s to spiritually destroy as much people as possible, this is not a good look for those who proclaim to be Christian such as Brian Littrell. Like as if they’re so proud of the attention they’re getting, to the point where it ruins them spiritually as well and no sooner or later they’ll reap the whirlwind.

It’s not wrong to like superheroes, Disney or whatever but we shouldn’t let them become idols lest we forget the Creator and not the blessings, but when Marvel and DC have a number of demonic heroes in their echelons then it’s not a good sign because the Devil will use anything innocent to beguile people with. It needn’t to involve witchcraft, mythical creatures and the like to be satanic, the Devil himself could turn into a superhero and still not be noticed by this many Christians like they do with Harry Potter. Perhaps our bar’s too low in some situations, if we object to Harry Potter then we should do the same with X-Men.

They’re both morally equivalent when it comes to condoning the things Christians are taught to abhor and more, but it seems we tend to be more conditional when it comes to what we abhor. If it seems innocent, regardless if it makes somebody sin, then we take this for granted. As if we’ve lowered the bar for what is acceptable, to the point where the Devi likes it this way.

Little Green Apples

There’s somebody going by the name of Analia Campbell said that Walt Disney not only made a deal with the Devil, but also created Disneyland with the intent of spiritually destroying children and anybody else in general. No wonder why it’s known as the happiest place on Earth, even though God will provide something much happier in the future. It could be afterlife in Heaven, it could also be a new Earth where death and unhappiness are no more.

There are two smoking guns that hint at what Uncle Walt had been doing in his lifetime, one is a membership to a secret society known as DeMolay and another is the little known production Hell’s Bells. Not to mention any mention of God is forbidden in Frozen, even if some Disney staff members are Christians themselves. That too could have been the case in the past before, whoever they were they could’ve been forgotten to time (though not to God).

I guess it is possible to like some things made by Disney, though you’d still have to be careful with those. I had the displeasure of listening to a satanic song by AC/DC as played on Radio Disney (of all things), although other radio stations like RJ FM and Energy FM aren’t any better. The only things both Energy FM and Citi FM going on for them is that they play sermons, daily for the latter and weekly for the former. RJ FM plays Bible readings every Christmas, by the way if I’m not mistaken.

You could be in Disney but not of Disney, that’s to paraphrase something from the Bible. It’s not inherently wrong to like Disney and like with all other things, they shouldn’t take the place of God even when you do it every now and then. But when it comes to a company like Disney reinforcing so much brand loyalty in some people, to the point where they’ll do anything to buy anything Disney and go to anywhere that’s Disney-branded.

So the risk of idolatry’s always there in some form or another, especially if something like Disney encourages and enables this a lot. I’ve pointed this out but with the Backstreet Boys and it’s even more shameful in their case, if because one of them is a Christian and he shouldn’t be enabling this because he himself knows better. No sooner or later, scandals will attract them. One of them will be outed for human trafficking, another for adultery and abusing his wife.

This is not a good look for Brian Littrell at all, he should really take a look in the mirror this time. I don’t think it’s something he’d actually be aware of, if because he might be doing something wrong. He even probably knows this deep down inside, but the fact that he spiritually compromised himself suggests he ended up doing the wrong thing. I don’t think Christians should be doing this, since it’s something they know they’re opposed to.

But perhaps the lure of the world is too strong for some, no matter how innocent it looks and if Walt had Christian relatives himself, this must be shameful of him to willingly defy them. Perhaps the world really is up to no good as it can corrupt the purest of souls, or those with a better conscience as it is with Brian Littrell.

Never preached to their souls

I noticed something about Brian Littrell of the band the Backstreet Boys, despite being a practising Christian he never preached sermons to his fans, give them devotionals and Bibles and send them to church. My knowledge of the Backstreet Boys has dimmed over the years, the less I get fond of them but I don’t think Littrell never really shared the gospel with them in any way, not just Christian music but also actually sharing gospel tracts with them and taking them to church to listen to pastors’ sermons (or even radio stations and podcasts to do the same thing).

I do remember listening to this interview on YouTube, though it was about some other person but that person wallowed in pride just as what Taylor Swift ended up doing. The reason why they enable so much idolatry is because they like the admiration they’re getting from people, which feeds into their pride or something to the point where Brian Littrell and his bandmates might also suffer from this same problem as well. I don’t think it reflects well on Littrell as a Christian, since he shouldn’t be okay with these two things yet he encourages, enables and wallows in those himself in some way.

The fact that many BSB fans constantly make fanfiction (including erotic fanfiction) and fanart (essentially graven images) of their favourite band, that Littrell never bothered to curb or convict them in any way is kind of tragic. It could be that he never got around to, perhaps for fear of being preachy but that would mean he has the fear of man rather than the fear of God. That he tends to be of the world rather than being in the world suggests there’s something about his spiritual health that he might not be comfortable admitting or realising in any way, to the point where more scandals catch up with the band.

One of his bandmates will be outed for trafficking women into prostitution rings and porn, another for abusing his wife and cheating on her with a younger woman. Like he tried to catch a whirlwind and produced a forthcoming typhoon in his way, something he should know better because he’s a Christian let alone an Evangelical at that. But it seems he’d rather pander to his fans a lot rather than making them worship the one true God, as if what the BSB fandom does is practically no different from any other form of idolatry whatever you think it is. But the line about graven images could be applied well to BSB fanart.

Perhaps too on the nose, since Anglicanism and the like have a good excuse as they honour God. The BSB fandom has no excuse whatsoever that they’re effectively worshipping the creature instead of the Creator, something Littrell should’ve stopped but never got around to because he fears man more than he fears God. It would be horrifying that this year in Mexico, they’ll all dress up as demons for the song ‘Everybody’. This makes one wonder how far Brian Littrell is from God and why he’ll end up doing this, as if he really doesn’t honour him much but rather his fans and band.

To the point where misfortunes will attract the band whether if it likes it or not.

I Put A Spell On You

The more people point out that Taylor Swift likely indulges in and practises witchcraft, especially with one woman pointing out that her music makes somebody hypersexual due to her channeling spirits the more I believe it could be true in some way. There’s actually somebody online who claims to be a Christian but lusts after other men despite being a married mum, not to mention she not only makes an idol out of the telly character Felicity Smoak but also Taylor Swift herself. I feel if Swift does witchcraft, then this mum is particularly susceptible to this.

I don’t think this has good implications for the Taylor Swift fandom, if because some way or another they are spellbound by her. They are devoted to her in ways it shouldn’t be, especially if you’re a Christian as God is jealous, but this could also be applied to any other musician who enables this idolatry of themselves. I feel this is also similar with the Backstreet Boys, in fact in ways it shouldn’t be because one of them is a Christian. He should’ve led his fans to God, instead of himself and his band. The fact that he enables this a lot suggests that he is particularly very proud, which God doesn’t like.

If pride precedes a downfall, then BSB’s downfall comes from the many scandals. One member will be outed for abuse, adultery and battery, the other will be outed for sex trafficking especially when it comes to trafficking sex slaves to certain people. If you know what I mean, this bloke’s very supportive of the LGBT community but will turn out to be supplying prostitutes to certain gay men and lesbian women. Even Brian himself will fall into a scandal of sorts, that’s by appearing as a demon along with his bandmates that one would wonder where his true loyalty lies.

Is he loyal to the God who provides him, makes him repent or helps him out in tough times? Or is he loyal to his fans whom he enables their bad, ungodly habits a lot? There are likely some pastors who pointed out that David Bowie might be involved in the occult before, one early surviving documented example is the documentary ‘They Sold Their Souls For Rock and Roll’ where Bowie was kind of too fond of occultist Aleister Crowley for his own good. Perhaps this is why so many David Bowie fans are very devoted to him, that he enjoys being worshiped by others according to his ex-wife makes you wonder.

Whatever musician that I’m talking about, all of them enable their fans’ idolatry of them because it feeds into their pride or something.

Ain’t Too Proud To Beg

I remember something on YouTube where somebody insinuated that some celebrities like Taylor Swift enable their fans’ idolatry of them because it makes them really proud, but similar things can be said of the Backstreet Boys which might be worse because one of them is a Christian. As Christians are called to be humble, not be stumbling blocks to people and not indulge in idolatry this is something that Brian Littrell has consistently failed to do and repent in any way. Perhaps like Swift herself, he’s also proud of the attention he gets. So proud that he and his bandmates want more of it, the more they enable their fans’ idolatry of them.

No wonder why they’re so devoted, but when God is a jealous God one wonders about where Littrell’s loyalty lies should he and his band show up as demons in Mexico to play the song ‘Everybody’. As one reaps what they sow, so more scandals will rock the band. One of them will be outed for sex trafficking of minors and immigrants, another for adultery and battery that his soon to be ex-wife files for divorce as she’s going to have enough of him. Perhaps light really shouldn’t have fellowship with darkness, which means Littrell might easily end up going with the flow instead of going against it as he should. If this is true, then Littrell should be more careful with who he fraternises with lest he stray away from God. I don’t think he himself would be comfortable hearing this.

If because that would mean the more he enabled his fans’ devotion to his band, the more he drifts away from God which puts him in a bad situation. Either he has to quit ahead of time to avoid losing face (in front of God), or he worsens the more he enables it to the point where he might await a worse fate. Not just death but many more scandals awaiting, it could all be tied to something some fans do and it’s lust. One of them will turn out to be into sex trafficking, the other’s a massive cheater and abuser. That and a possibly orgy that will happen in their Mexican tour from dressing up as demons.

Something he should’ve known all along, but unfortunately never bothered to.

Evil Ways

While it’s true not everything America produces and exports are bad, but when you have people like Celestial and Dumitru Duduman pointing out that America is Mystery Babylon then much of the stuff it exports really isn’t good. Not just those that are outright evil, but those you don’t expect them to be. But this involves becoming more careful with what you consume and get, if because demons will do anything to corrupt people with and take advantage of anything that appears sweet and innocent. After all, the Devil can appear as an angel of light. He could make himself appear as a superhero when he wants to, which is something he has already done when it comes to Marvel’s Daredevil.

It isn’t just that Daredevil looks like what you expect the Devil to, he even lives in Hell’s Kitchen (though a real place) but one can’t help but wonder if it alludes to Hell in some way. Hell being where the Devil and demons reside, so the well’s already poisoned though it’s not obvious to us since it’s easier to protest anything that’s blatantly occult and demonic. As I said before somewhere else that it’s easy to make the charge against Harry Potter and Dungeons and Dragons, but not something like X-Men and Daredevil even though you have blatantly demonic characters there from time to time. Illyana Rasputina doesn’t just use magic and is a heroine, she even looks like the Devil herself from time to time.

If Marvel’s well turns out to be poisoned from the beginning or something close, no matter how appealing many of its characters are if some of them are based on demons and the Devil then avoid them when you have to. It’s even more surprising to hear that Spider-Man, Batman and Superman are also based on demons, which makes the idolatry around them all the more potent. If one charges Catholicism with promoting idolatry, then they should do the same with geek fandoms as they’re really no different. They’re both morally and theologically equivalent, but it’s easier to go against something that’s blatantly evil than something that appears good.

If images and statues of saints constitute graven images, so should any merchandise featuring superheroes. If somebody makes an idol of any superhero, it’s really and practically no different. I even think fandom is a sophisticated form of idolatry, if because it involves worshiping the creature in whatever form it appears rather than God himself. It could be anything that takes away attention to God, it could be football or basketball but it could also be superheroes. The problem is that as superheroes appear so innocuous, to the point where Christians have practically slept on those for as long as they did.

Because of geek fandoms, it’s easy for America to perpetuate and cultivate idolatry this way. The rest of the west has done the same thing too, the more they drink from America’s distilleries the worse they get. I think for many Christians and especially Protestants, it’s easy to forget what else is evil and unholy. Especially if it’s something that appears good that will only show its true colours, it could be America itself as some Christians think it’s deserving of God’s love when in reality it’s deserving of his wrath. It could be superheroes and geek fandoms, since other than Harry Potter and DnD, most of them seem so harmless as to be ignored.

I think geek fandoms are even worse than Catholicism in some regards, if because some Catholics actually worship God himself. Geek fandoms have taken idolatry to a science and an art form, since at times it does resemble religious worship. Not just the trappings of organised religion, but also how such people have to attend conventions like one would do with churches. At other times I find myself wondering how arbitrary some Christians’ objections to worldly things are, since most of the time it’s only certain worldly things that get this treatment.

Others have been ignored for as long as they have, to the point where it seems the Devil successfully got people’s attention. He knows he doesn’t want to be found out by the Lord, so he will do anything to appear as innocent and sweet as possible. It needn’t to be Harry Potter that makes people do ungodly things, it needn’t to be the Roman Catholic Church either. It could be something like X-Men and Star Trek also influencing people for the worst, you know something like slash fanfiction (fanmade stories featuring homosexual relationships between existing characters).

It doesn’t help that it’s more common for Christians to charge horror films of evil than they do with romance novels, since I fear they don’t take the latter seriously even when they have led people to lust. It seems if it appears innocent, they will ignore it which makes its duplicity more potent. Whatever that is blatantly evil, Christians will protest but if it doesn’t look evil they will be silent. I believe the romance genre is inherently flawed, if because most romance stories have lust baked into them. So it’s inevitable that they will cover whatever that was taboo before, what Marquis de Sade wrote has made it into some of them as dark romance.

If it’s America that produces and exports these pieces of rubbish, then it is Mystery Babylon and all the more a reason to be more careful with what you get if because many of them aren’t good. Not just that they’re not informative nor practical, but that some of them appear innocent despite being so wretched on the inside. If America stops exporting its stuff elsewhere, then it will be for the better as God will undo its influence wherever it went.