In case you didn't now, Katy Perry's parents are pastors so she pretty much had a Christian upbringing. But what went wrong?
Katy Perry who made it clear in an interview that she sold her soul to the devil, has spoken out about Christian upbringing and her rejection of the Christian faith.
"Satan's assault on our youth is relentless, and
they can't fight against it alone," Mary Hudson, Perry's mother, wrote
in Charisma magazine. "Parents have to walk in their God-given
authority-children can't be left to raise themselves." '
*Katy must have felt smothered by her strict Christian upbringing and that's why when she got exposed to the wrong material she embraced it right away and now she feels 'free' to do whatever she wants without any restrictions or impositions.
What am I trying to say? Parents don't just teach your children about God and His ways, teach them to love Him cos until they love God truly, they can never really follow Him. Once they leave you, they will forget God.
And please add prayer to that too. Pray everyday for your children. There is power in intercession. I just hope Katy's parents have not stopped praying for her. She is not beyond the reach of salvation.
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| Katy Perry |
'The 32-year-old pop star revealed to Vogue Magazine that her parents, both evangelical Christian pastors, "carefully sheltered her" throughout her young life.
"My house was church on Sunday morning, church
on Sunday night, church on Wednesday evening; you don't celebrate
Halloween, Jesus gives you your Christmas presents; we watch Bill
O'Reilly on TV. That was my whole childhood and youth and
early teens. I still have conditioned layers dropping off of me by the
day," she said.
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| From her song the 'Dark Horse' as she poses with the all seeing eye (an occult symbol) |
The "I Kissed a Girl" singer claimed that her
parents didn't allow her to "interact with gay people" and that there
was "some generational racism."
"The schools were really makeshift," explained
Perry to the fashion publication. "Education was not the first priority.
My education started in my 20s, and there is so much to learn still."
Going by her real name "Katy Hudson," Perry released her first self-titled album as a contemporary Christian artist.
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| Her demonic performance at 2014 Grammys. |
"Amy Grant was our Madonna," the singer told Vogue
of her early years as a Gospel artist. "We knew about Madonna and
Marilyn Manson in my family because we picketed their concerts."
However, she described how, after handing out
pamphlets titled "How to Find God" at a Manson concert in Santa Barbara,
she ended up watching the performance with her youth pastor.
Two years
after releasing her Christian album, Perry discovered the seventies
group Queen and was mesmerized by the group's sexually provocative lead
singer, Freddie Mercury.
"I had never heard such an imaginative explanation
of how to live," she recalled. "That was my first perspective on that
world, and I just loved it. I felt so free and accepted."
At 17, Perry moved to Los Angeles and branched out
to secular music and was signed on to Capitol Music Group.
Her debut as
Katy Perry was an instant success and she has continued to advance her
career.
In the process of reestablishing herself as a pop star, Perry turned
away from her religious views.
She said, "I don't believe in a heaven or a hell or
an old man sitting on a throne. I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable."
The singer has also rejected the Conservative ways of her parents, and has become an activist for LGBT rights.
In a speech last month,
at the Human Rights Campaign gala, Perry recounted her experiences
going to Christian camps that advocated for "praying the gay away":
"Most of my unconscious adolescence, I prayed the gay away at my Jesus
camps. But then in the middle of it all, in a twist of events, I found
my gift and my gift introduced me to people outside of my bubble. My
bubble started to burst," Perry added.
The popstar added that the LGBT people she met on
her rise to fame "were the most free, strong, kind and inclusive people I
have ever met. They stimulated my mind and they filled my heart with
joy and they freaking danced all the while doing it.
"These people are actually magic, and they are magic because they are living their truth."
The popstar's rejection of her faith became
evident in her overtly Satanic performance of "Dark Horse" at the 2014
Grammys, which prompted Christian singer Natalie Grant to leave the awards ceremony early.
Perry's parents have previously expressed sorrow over their daughter's decision to abandon her faith and promote a worldview that goes against Biblical instruction.
"They ask how can I preach if I produce a girl who
sang about kissing another girl? I was at a concert of Katy's where
there were 20,000.
I'm watching this generation and they were going at
it. It almost looked like church. I stood there and wept and kept on
weeping and weeping," Katy's father, Keith Hudson said in a 2014 sermon. "They're loving and worshiping the wrong thing."
*Katy must have felt smothered by her strict Christian upbringing and that's why when she got exposed to the wrong material she embraced it right away and now she feels 'free' to do whatever she wants without any restrictions or impositions.
What am I trying to say? Parents don't just teach your children about God and His ways, teach them to love Him cos until they love God truly, they can never really follow Him. Once they leave you, they will forget God.
And please add prayer to that too. Pray everyday for your children. There is power in intercession. I just hope Katy's parents have not stopped praying for her. She is not beyond the reach of salvation.
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