“Guilty As Sin,” another song, seems to directly question standard religious stories:“What if I throw the stone away?” “They’re going to crucify me anyway. What if the way you hold me is holy?”Some people, like Shane Pruitt, who is the National Next Gen Director for the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board, don’t like these songs. Pruitt wrote about his thoughts on Facebook and told Christian parents that they should think again about letting their kids listen to Swift’s music, because it makes fun of their faith.A Christian entertainment review site, MovieGuide, agreed with these points of view and said that Swift’s album openly “mocks Christianity.” The review showed that Christians are becoming more worried about the secular and maybe even anti-Christian messages in popular music, especially when it comes from artists who used to be neutral about religion.The debate over Swift’s record shows how religious beliefs and popular culture are often at odds with each other, especially when artists use their fame to question societal norms and beliefs.
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