Ahem, one more time folks…this, as with everything else is not part of a culture war, it is a part of the spiritual war taking place, escalating, and evil, rebellion against God, against Christ, against the Holy Spirit and the Word of God attempting to prevail. To remove all the foundations. And until and unless everyone professing to be a Christian stops stopping at the off-ramp of the political circus, the cultural riot taking place and they proceed to the location of clarity to see, hear, and know the why, the what, the who, and the how if it all — that everything is part of the ongoing and escalating spiritual war taking place within every person, surrounding every person, there will be no understanding. No accuracy. No arriving at the right place because the journey did not begin in the right place, the mind is lost, and from fatigue, apathy, indoctrination, what have you, the heart and mind decided to pull over at the cultural war exit, the political exit and proceed no further.

Not good. Not right. Isn’t working. Isn’t changing anything. Won’t change a thing. Just adds to the accumulating pile of rubbish words like old cardboard, plastic, and paper piling up in recycling facilities going nowhere.

Oh, and it isn’t Country music — it’s Pop. Pure Pop. There is very little Country music remaining in America. Just another delusion of folks that it is huge, is still country music. Just because it’s centered in Nashville, Tennessee does not make it country.

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Thursday, August 17th, 2023

Country Music The Latest Victim Of The Sexually Deviant, Sexually Perverted, Sexually Immoral Agenda

Tyler Childers and Kelsea Ballerini are making country music the latest victim of the sexually deviant agenda.

A culture based on Judeo-Christian values is fundamentally at odds with a culture committed to hyper-individualism and total personal liberation, and the culture wars are a result of this tension.

August 7, 2023

by Jonathon Van Maren

Reprinted from The Bridgehead, Lifesite News, & Prophecy News Watch

(LifeSiteNews) – Earlier this year, I was contacted by a journalist for Society, a biweekly print magazine about culture, society, and politics based in Paris that has become one of the best-known print magazines in France. The writer wanted to do an interview on a few columns I’d written on the culture war being waged within the country music scene, where younger performers are beginning to push the progressive agenda that their peers are advocating elsewhere. The journalist was clearly skeptical of my thesis that country music has become a part of the culture wars. 

“According to you, why is country music, historically rather conservative, evolving currently towards more progressive values?” he asked. My response: “Country music was a conservative genre because it primarily celebrated the ordinary (albeit in a uniquely American context): faith, family, and freedom. Rock and other genres were intentionally transgressive, and country music stood out by contrast. But as the sexual revolution has thoroughly transformed culture and the digital age and entertainment industry have done much to eliminate regional cultural distinctions, the transgressive views of an elite few on sexuality and human relationships are becoming increasingly ordinary, and country music is beginning to reflect that.”

His second, more awkwardly worded question, got to the heart of why he wanted the interview in the first place: “What do you blame on the new pro-LGBT country scene?” In response, I pointed out that this culture war was to be expected. In many ways, the new (and vociferous) pro-sexually deviant or sexually perverted and immoral-identifying country stars are simply another example of what is happening across culture, be it literature, film, TV, children’s entertainment, or music. The sexual deviancy movement has become an ascendant force, and their ideology has become ideology of most major social institutions. It was once frowned upon to openly defend alternative sexual lifestyles; it is now frowned upon to condemn them. The country music scene took longer to evolve because it was rooted in a more conservative tradition – but it has changed nonetheless. 

The journalist asked me to define what a culture war was and asked whether the changes in country music are simply another microcosm of what is going on everywhere. The culture wars, simply put, are the clash between the residual values of Western civilization and the progressive values of the sexual revolution as we advance further into the post-Christian era. A culture based on Judeo-Christian values is fundamentally at odds with a culture committed to hyper-individualism and total personal liberation, and the culture wars are a result of this tension. Our culture’s values were once Judeo-Christian and based on biblical revelation. They are now based on a commitment to total autonomy and sexual revolution. Our entire moral infrastructure has been replaced, and no aspect of society will remain untouched by this.  

Those pushing this agenda in the country music scene are doing it very intentionally. Tyler Childers, for example, recently did an interview for a profile on NPR in which he explained why he is using his country music to tell queer love stories. Kelsea Ballerini performed with drag queens at the CMT awards. Jason Aldean and his wife were targeted by angry young country stars for opposing transgender ideology. And “queer country songs” are increasingly the norm. As I’ve noted before, the Sexual Revolution is totalizing, and nothing will be left untouched. Country music has already gone through a transformation away from tradition over the past two decades – now it is transitioning completely. There are a handful of artists still committed to the old values, but they are consistently under fire if they dare to express their views. 

Country music was a uniquely American cultural phenomenon – and there was no chance the activists were ever going to leave it alone.