I wonder if he’s assuming most of her fans are gay and that they hate Christianity for that reason. That would actually kind of make sense, but even if a disproportionate number of her fans are LGBT, it’d still be a small fraction of her fanbase.
I’ve known plenty of gay christians, and christians who had no problem with homosexuality. But yes, I suppose the stereotype of christianity being anti-gay holds true a disturbingly large percentage of the time.
Like you say, she’s a popular performer. Even if a disproportionate percentage of her fans are gay, the majority are not.
So have I.
This thread has gone off-topic. It’s supposed to be about Jesus and adulation.
This thread’s never been on-topic. No one has attempted to answer the question “What would Jesus think about all the adulation?”, but instead have been saying that Jesus deserves adulation. Not the same thing, at all.
It is stupid to “debate” opinions, as if you could somehow disprove another person’s opinion. The whole issue of Gaga is threatened to derail this thread. If Czarcasm just wanted me to expand on what I said, he could have asked. “Disproving” my pop-cultural observation just means that you disagree with it. I don’t mind that at all. Stop trying to be right!
You don’t get to bring in made-up facts then, when asked for cites, declare the stuff you brought up in the first place “off-topic”.
You claimed that Lady Gaga fans hate Christianity; that’s a claim of fact, not an opinion.
According to the words directly attributed to Jesus as put forth in the KJV Bible, I think he would be mighty pissed off that, instead of trying to follow his footsteps and become more like him, we’ve made him into an icon and a shortcut to Heaven.
It is not like that at all. God does not play dice.
Fact or opinion?
“God not only plays dice but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”
I don’t want to give God blame.
Believers never do.
Jesus offers Himself as the shortcut to heaven.
“I am the doorway,” He says. “Whosoever believes in me will have eternal life.”
Jesus is not a bad icon to have. Best icon I can think of.
Depends on what you believe.
Can you, at the very least, tell us if you can tell the difference between the two?
Facts are objective, opinions are personal. Faith is also personal.
As Der Trihs already pointed out, you are making assertions about factual matters and then (as far as I can tell) saying you don’t have to back them up because they’re articles of faith. Isn’t that a bait and switch?
Then can we assume that, since man cannot know the mind of God, that any declarations you make on what God can or cannot do, say or want are only your unfounded personal opinion, much like your statements about lady Ga Ga and her fans?