Skillet singer John Cooper is never shy in sharing his religious or political beliefs. Late last year he surmised that America was doomed following the appearance of several musicians in drag at a Christian music awards show.
“The good news is this: we know that God promises if we repent, cry out to God, he will heal our land,” he told One America News Network at the time. “The bad news is, as everybody knows, America really is on the verge of destruction. And I believe that that destruction is because the Christian church ain’t acting like the Christian church.”
In a new interview with Plugged In director Adam Holz, Cooper again spoke on a variety of subjects at length and called out singer/songwriter and successful pop artist Demi Lovato for her song “Swine.”
“You know the singer Demi Lovato,” Cooper said. “Demi Lovato released a song year on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned. And it was her sort of anti-pro-life song. And in that one song, she encapsulates so much evil. In that song, she supplies us with the best pro-life argument we always give, which is that people are not killing their babies because they can’t afford it. They’re killing their babies because they want to have sex with ‘whoever I want to, whenever I want to. I don’t wanna use birth control. I should be able to do whatever I want.’ It is pure narcissism, pure evil, and then she’s screaming at all the people who are saying that this is murder.”
Cooper continued: “So she now is… This would be sort of like… I mean, I’m trying to… I don’t wanna be too alarmist, but that is sort of like the Hamas crowd, the cheering Hamas crowd. We are standing up for something that’s just — we think — even though it’s really evil and wicked. Have those conversations with your kids. It’s gonna require some work for you to understand the worldview. But for my kids, when they began to understand those things, they were, like, ‘This is horrific. They’re cheering on the killing of babies.’ Their minds were just… I remember showing my daughter a video from (pro-abortion group) Shout Your Abortion. Shout Your Abortion is the ones that they say, ‘You shouldn’t be embarrassed about it.’ It’s like we say with faith, like, ‘Don’t hide your faith. Don’t hide your faith under a lamp. What good is that? Share your faith in Jesus. Be proud of Christ.’ They do the same thing with abortion. I remember when I first showed my daughter Shout Your Abortion. It was one of those moments of, ‘I had no idea people were capable of this kind of evil.'”
Cooper’s full interview can be viewed below.
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