I’m going to weigh in on “the Skillet controversy”.

So, the band Skillet did their own take on the Christmas song “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”. YouTube’s algorithm threw James White’s video on this “controversy” at me, and I watched it.

First of all, I don’t like James White. I don’t like him or the guy that hired him at his religious business, Jeff Durbin at Apologia Church. James White proudly proclaimed that he’s great personal friends with everyone in the band. Well, this doesn’t surprise me at all.

The band’s singer is John Cooper, and I see both him and James White as being firmly entrenched in Cultural Pseudo-Christianity. These guys are so popular, famous, and influential in this scene, that they even help STEER Cultural Pseudo-Christianity.

To me – and yes, this is 100% my take on this and people can hate my opinion all they want – the compromise with these guys is staggering. They say they stand against evil, but they’re both living out an emasculated Pseudo-Christianity, and evil spirits certainly know this about them. They both push New Postmillennialism, which means they believe Christians are called to Christianize and Heavenize the world.

Amazingly, some of the very things they say they’re against, are the very things they’re pushing for, such as Christian Nationalism. Terminology and definitions gets fuzzy when listening to the doublespeak these guys employ. “Well I’m not for that, but I’m not against it either.” Influencers like this have learned all the tricks to be able to say nothing and everything at the same time. They can hate on somebody and grind at them, and then turn around and say, “But I love him so much.”

It’s the same trickery that all the popular influencers are doing today. They’ve all learned how to be slick, slippery, smooth, clever, and cunning. Likable. Ear ticklers. Brain washers. When you become popular, famous, and influential in Cultural Pseudo-Christianity, there’s a reason why! There’s a reason why you are being used! It means that you’ve “got what it takes” to be a “leader” in Churchianity. And you don’t get the fame without the cost! The cost is your soul!

So while there’s so much more I can say about John Cooper, James White, Jeff Durbin, and everybody else playing games in Cultural Pseudo-Christianity, I’ll get to the chase scene.

I think the song sucks. I think it’s indicative of all that’s wrong with Cultural Pseudo-Christianity in the US.

Is Jesus worshiped in Skillet’s Christmas song? No. Definitely not.

There’s this evil idea today that says that big numbers, platforming others, and getting platformed equals good character, moral strength, and religious truth. I say that the opposite is true. I say that to be popular, famous, and influential in Cultural Pseudo-Christianity means that you’ve radically compromised and sold your soul along the way.

Sadly, healthy spiritual discernment is very very hard to find today.

In the same way that it can be said, “It’s not what goes into your mouth and stomach that defiles you, but it’s what comes out from your heart that defiles you”, it can be said, “It’s not the instruments or style of music that you play that defiles you, but it’s what comes out from your heart that defiles you.”

There’s a reason why certain persons are becoming even more popular and famous in Cultural Pseudo-Christianity today. They’re tools. They’re special tools for an agenda. The Christ these guys want to usher in by allegedly Christianizing and Heavenizing the world is not the Jesus Christ of the Bible!