(December 30, 2024 at 1:23 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Taylor Swift Mocks Christianity in Her New Album
While it’s no secret that Taylor Swift is not a Christian, she made her hatred for religion known through her newly released album “The Tortured Poets Department.”
The album is full of minor quips that elevate Swift above God while also featuring two songs devoted to tearing down the Christian sexual ethic.
Swift’s elevation of herself over God begins in the song “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can),” where she sings about dating a “bad boy” whom she – and only she – has the ability to fix.
“They shake their heads sayin’, ‘God help her,’ / When I tell ‘em he’s my man,” Swift sings during the chorus. “But your good Lord doesn’t lift a finger / I can fix him, no, really, I can. And only I can.”
At this point, Swift mocks the power of prayer, revealing how the bad boy she has decided to date remains bad despite her fans praying for their relationship. She then takes the mockery a step further, revealing that even though the Lord cannot fix her man, she can. At the end of the song, however, she reveals that she wasn’t up to the task, singing, “Well, maybe I can’t,” while making no comment on the Lord’s decision not to step in either.
Swift later reiterates that love and relationships are her gods when, in “loml” (love of my life), she calls her lover the “Holy Ghost.” This analogy further reveals her view of the Lord as someone who can be replaced by human relationships.
The singer’s disdain for Christianity, however, is put on full display through “But Daddy I Love Him” and “Guilty as Sin?” where she blasts the Christian sexual ethic and Jesus’ teaching on lust.
“I just learned these people only raise you / To cage you,” Swift sings during the opening of “But Daddy I Love Him.” “Too high a horse for a simple girl / To rise above it / They slammed the door on my whole world / The one thing I wanted.”
Complaining about the “oppressive” nature of the Christian sexual ethic to wait until marriage for sex, Swift sings about rising above the Bible’s teachings.
“Now I’m running with my dress unbuttoned / Screamin’, ‘But daddy I love him / I’m havin’ his baby’ / No, I’m not, but you should see your faces,” she sings during the chorus, continuing to mock the Bible’s teaching and joking about having her boyfriend’s baby.
“I’m telling him to floor it through the fences,” the chorus continues, with Swift pushing the imagery of breaking out of the “oppressive” guards put in place by the Bible.
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This almost - not quite, but almost - makes me want to rush right out and buy a Taylor Swift album.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
