Thursday, January 24, 2019

Lady Gaga's "Christianity"


According to an article in CBN News,[1] Lady Gaga recently interrupted one of her concerts to launch a strong public attack against Vice President Pence as being the worst example of Christianity (as if Gaga is a better example)! Lady Gaga reportedly said, “I am a Christian woman and what I do know about Christianity is that we bear no prejudice and everybody is welcome.”
Anyone who has ever heard Lady Gaga’s music knows—well, let’s just say she didn’t get those lyrics from the Bible! Gaga is promoting an alternative form of “Christianity.” Forget the idea of an all-powerful and all-knowing God. The “Christianity” of Lady Gaga and other modern leftists is about an all-welcoming, all-tolerant deity characterized by absolute niceness. This god would never judge anyone, anywhere, anytime about anything. This is a very popular god who allows people to unrepentantly wallow in virtually any kind of sin without shame, regret, or confession.
What Gaga is promoting is really nothing new. Two thousand years ago the book of Jude issued a blistering attack against such a view of “Christianity.” And back in the 1930’s H.Richard Niebuhr wrote that theological liberals of his time proclaimed how “a God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.”[2]
So while Gaga’s “Christianity” is nothing new, it is certainly not biblical, and her god is a figment of her own imagination. But it is a god in whom an increasing number of people seem to believe.