Leftist singer Taylor Swift, who has attacked Christianity and believing Christians in her music before, cranked the anti-Christian sentiment up a few notches in her recently released album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” Two songs, in particular, attack Christian stances on sex and sexual ethics, while much of the album is full of minor quips about God and faith.
In one song in the album, for example, “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can),” Swift sings that “your good Lord doesn’t lift a finger” to help in personal situations. She sings, in the chorus of the song, “They shake their heads sayin’, ‘God help her,’ / When I tell ‘em he’s my man / But your good Lord doesn’t lift a finger / I can fix him, no, really, I can. And only I can.” In that same song, Swift mocks the power of prayer and God generally, singing that the “bad boy” remained bad despite her prayers for their relationship and insisting that even if God doesn’t fix him, she can.
In two other songs, “But Daddy I Love Him” and “Guilty as Sin?” Swift attacks Christian sexual morals and teachings on lust and sin. For example, in the opening of “But Daddy I Love Him,” Swift sings, “I just learned these people only raise you / To cage you.” She continues, “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.”
Further attacking Christian ethics for being oppressive, she sings, mocking Biblical teachings about out-of-wedlock births in a passage about having her boyfriend’s baby despite societal disapproval, “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.”
In that song’s chorus, she sings, in the context of breaking out of the societal bonds set by Christian morals and ethics, “I’m telling him to floor it through the fences.” She adds, “No, I’m not coming to my senses.” Then, bashing those in the song who try to share biblical teachings on the subject with her, she sings, “Sanctimoniously performing soliloquies I’ll never see / Thinkin’ it can change the beat / of my heart when he touches me / And counteract the chemistry / And undo the destiny.” She continues, “You ain’t gotta pray for me / Me and my wild boy and all of this wild joy / If all you want and is gray for me / Then it’s just white noise, and it’s just my choice.”
In the other song with an anti-Christianity message, “Guilty as Sin?”, Swift mocks the teaching of Matthew 5. That verse is when she questions Jesus’ teaching from Matthew 5: 28-30, which famously provides, “But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. So if your eye—even your good eye[a]—causes you to lust, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your hand—even your stronger hand[b]—causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.”
Mocking that verse in the song’s chorus, Swift sings, “What if he’s written ‘mine’ on my upper thigh only in my mind? / I keep recalling things we never did / Messy top-lip kiss, how I long for our trysts / Without ever touchin’ his skin / How can I be guilty as sin?”
Watch Swift mock Christians in her 2019 song, “But You Need to Calm Down”:
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