@KenPaxtonTX Did you, attention seeking government official do any investigation before launching inflammatory empty treats? Did you look at the actual policies? How about we back up accusations rather than wasting time with empty threats aimed at garnering attention? BTW how’s the mistress?
So, why the post about Taylor Swift on the cover of TIME Magazine, which selected her as “Person of the Year”? That’s a good question. Many people have obviously been quite offended. Rest assured, the offense was entirely intentional on my behalf. Let me explain why I chose to do it and what result I hope it brings about.
Taylor is a single woman in her thirties whose net worth is reported to be around $1.1 billion. She’s celebrated in our culture as the ideal woman—single, promiscuous, immodestly dressed, and something of a “boss babe.” She writes songs about breakups and sexual exploits, among other things, and is currently dating an NFL football player who is also notoriously promiscuous. She openly mocks standard Christian views of sexuality and sexual morality.
Many of Swift’s most popular songs reflect on her breakups, of which there have been something like ten high profile instances. In one of her newer songs, “Willow,” she dabbles in witchcraft and the occult.
I’m not a Swift expert and don’t pretend to be. But this much is clear: She is celebrated and promoted as the ideal woman, which is to say, the model for women in America and beyond. However, God is quite clear in Scripture that the sexually immoral will not inherit the kingdom (1 Corinthians 6:9-10), and that the immodest, sensual woman is a woman of folly who leads men and women to the grave (Proverbs 9:13-18)—that is, death and destruction.
A society that idolizes such a woman—wealthy and alone with her cats and an endless turntable of promiscuous relationships—is a foolish society bent on its own destruction. At the micro level, women who idolize and imitate Swift’s manner of life are headed toward misery and destruction, both in a temporal and eternal sense. Instead of celebrating such folly in the female sex, women should be warned against ruining themselves in such a sad manner.
Young women, especially, should be warned against such folly. To cheerlead women down a path of their own misery and judgment is to hate women. Love requires words spoken in truth. Better role models should be set before women—models that reflect God’s design for women. Women were made to be mothers and caretakers of the home (Genesis 3:20; 1 Timothy 5:14). Their glory is in submission to their husbands and in care for their children within the household (Ephesians 5:22). Only when they embrace their God-given design can women truly flourish.
To Swift and the women who have rejected motherhood, children, and their God-given role within the household—and who have continued to pursue their own destruction through sexual immorality, immodesty, and sensuality—I would encourage you to repent. Stop racing to your own destruction. Turn away from the sins that are ruining your own souls. Humble yourselves before God’s Word. No matter how great your sin, God offers you forgiveness through Jesus Christ, who died to purify a people for Himself. Go and sin no more.