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Our kids are being told that this kind of product is, not only okay, it’s “exclusive.” But do you know what’s more exclusive? Their God-given eternal soul. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who is supposed to be a defender of a secular Constitution, took time out of her busy day to say,
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What the upset believers are all in a huff about (at least partially) is that they think Lil Nas is beckoning people to the dark side. (Nike just built the bones of the shoe, by the way – someone else did the Satan modifications.) The shoes were selling like pandemic toilet paper until Nike got pissed off, and filed injunctions. The shoes are part of a limited run of 666 – which I thought was brilliant – and feature both a pentagram and “Luke 10:18.” (Luke 10:18 says, “And He said to them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven,” which sounds more like Thor than the God of Abraham. (My shoes contain at least a drop of blood in them every time I go on a long hike.)
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The other reason the crusaders are at the gate is that in conjunction with this song release, Lil Nas began selling “Satan Shoes” that supposedly contain a drop of human blood in the Nike-built footwear. Lil Nas X says it’s an embrace of his identity. It’s a tongue-in-cheek riff on the biblical themes that have long been used to demonize queerness and justify homophobia. … a campy, fantastical journey that takes him from the Garden of Eden to the underworld, where he dances for the devil before stealing his horns for himself. One is that his song, “Montero” (Nas’s real name is Montero Lamar Hill) is causing some discomfort because the song, in the words of PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor, is… If you happen to be in a news blackout recently, you may not know that a massively popular rapper named Lil Nas X is being roundly criticized by breathless Christians for two main reasons. We humanists will accept you for who you are. How do you feel about all these Christians attacking Lil Nas X for his “Satan shoes” and his music video “Montero?” Greg W., Cincinnati, OH