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COMMENTARY: Mockery’s eternal prisoner lurks behind every scornful jeer and acquiescence to the devil.
News of pop stars mocking our holy faith or, worse still, giving a form of public worship to the evil one, is hardly new. Such things in the entertainment industry are not “cutting-edge” — though they often pretend to be. What would be truly avant-garde would be to behold rock stars kneeling to offer humble adoration to the Living God — that would be newsworthy.
Instead, pop music has had a long, and increasingly tiresome, dalliance with darkness. One wonders if any of these pop stars have ever researched the outcomes of such dark dalliances in the lives of fellow entertainers of previous generations. One suspects not, for, if they had, they might have acquired some insight into what is at play; and with that insight, might come, if not public repentance, at least a wise taciturnity pertaining to these matters.
Things being as they are, however, Christians need to be circumspect in their response. They need to be careful in their responses, not just focused outrage at the recent Grammys. Unbridled outrage rarely leads to any form of resolution. It’s time to recognize that such a cycle of action and reaction, turbo-charged these days by social media, leads nowhere we would wish to go.
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News of pop stars mocking our holy faith or, worse still, giving a form of public worship to the evil one, is hardly new. Such things in the entertainment industry are not “cutting-edge” — though they often pretend to be. What would be truly avant-garde would be to behold rock stars kneeling to offer humble adoration to the Living God — that would be newsworthy.
Instead, pop music has had a long, and increasingly tiresome, dalliance with darkness. One wonders if any of these pop stars have ever researched the outcomes of such dark dalliances in the lives of fellow entertainers of previous generations. One suspects not, for, if they had, they might have acquired some insight into what is at play; and with that insight, might come, if not public repentance, at least a wise taciturnity pertaining to these matters.
Things being as they are, however, Christians need to be circumspect in their response. They need to be careful in their responses, not just focused outrage at the recent Grammys. Unbridled outrage rarely leads to any form of resolution. It’s time to recognize that such a cycle of action and reaction, turbo-charged these days by social media, leads nowhere we would wish to go.
Continued below.
Good Must Confront Evil, on Stage and Elsewhere
COMMENTARY: Mockery’s eternal prisoner lurks behind every scornful jeer and acquiescence to the devil.
