Good news: Justin Bieber Canceled His World Tour So He Could Spend More Time with Jesus

[trotsky]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/07/25/justin-bieber-canceled-his-world-tour-so-he-could-spend-more-time-with-jesus/

But TMZ is now reporting that the real reason Bieber canceled his tour is because he needs time to rededicate his life to Jesus.

Justin Bieber pulled the plug on his Purpose tour because he “rededicated his life to Christ” … sources connected to Hillsong Church tell TMZ.

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Bieber has been virtually joined at the hip with Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz over the last few months — including at a huge church event in Australia — but we’re told Lentz did not advocate for cancelling the tour.

Lentz is considered a “cool” pastor by many because he’s routinely seen in leather jacket and skinny jeans, surrounded by celebrities. That last bit can’t be understated. How many other pastors get a profile in GQ?

Bieber gets closer to Jesus, and the world gets less of his music. Good news all around!

[DBoon]

1. What did Jesus do to deserve this?

Wasn't crucifixion enough punishment?

[SHRED]

2. Ha ha ha

[dhill926]

6. love this.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Praise the Lord, Hallelujah

You can bet Lentz does not want his latest convert to stop the gravy train.

Next for the Beebs, a Christian Pop album?

[underpants]

4. Sounds like Justin about to get bilked out of some money

[LonePirate]

5. Is anyone believing this nonsense?

He would be better served by faking a medical condition like exhaustion than tossing out this bs.

[trotsky]

7. Why, do you think Justin Bieber isn't really a Christian? n/t

[MineralMan]

8. Perhaps he will become a monk in a silent order.

That would be fine with me.

[msongs]

9. dear justin, ever heard the one about eye of needle, camel, and rich people going to heaven? nt

[Igel]

12. With God, all things are possible.

So it's hard, but certainly not impossible.

I mean, if you believe Christ.

My mother used to tell me money was the root of all evil.

Then I became literate and found out she was saying, "... money was the root of all evil" and omitted "love of."

[Glorfindel]

31. "Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas"

English: The root of all evil is cupidity.

Cupidity: greed for money or possessions.
synonyms: greed, avarice, avariciousness, acquisitiveness, covetousness, rapacity, materialism, Mammonism; informal:
money-grubbing. "He did not really see her cupidity until they'd been married for several years."
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I, myself, do not love money, but I certainly do admire many of the things it can purchase.

[Voltaire2]

10. This is great. Jesus is a HUGE fan.

[guillaumeb]

14. How do you know this?

What is your source?

Are you projecting because you too are a fan?

[Voltaire2]

18. what, now we need evidence for belief?

[guillaumeb]

21. You made a declarative statement.

If you had qualified your statement that would have been different. And who decides what is good?

Are you the decider?

[NeoGreen]

25. Yeah..well...

...

[Lordquinton]

11. This is good news

Well, it's just the religion turn in he career turnaround. Completely scripted.

[guillaumeb]

15. What gives you the authority to say this is good news?

Have you considered that some may find this bad news?

Should you not say that in your personal opinion this is good news?

[Lordquinton]

16. No, it's good news

Some may feel it's not, but they are objectively wrong.

[guillaumeb]

20. Your opinion of yourself is on display.

[guillaumeb]

13. Why do you say good news?

Are you the one who decides what music and which entertainers are good?

What are your criteria for arriving at this judgement?

When you said that Bieber gets closer to Jesus, were you sincere in your statement?

[Lordquinton]

17. Beiber is a terrible person

just look it up. Including getting into fights with fans, and drunk driving (for which he got a slap on the wrist) If he were a female celebrity his wealth would have been court ordered into the hands of his father by now.

[guillaumeb]

22. So you are the one who judges?

based on what exactly?

[trotsky]

19. HOORAY! YOU GET IT!

[beam me up scottie]

23. He's a True Belieber!

Why you gotta diss the Beebs, trotsky?

[EvilAL]

24. Jesus wept.

[no_hypocrisy]

26. I heard that Jesus isn't taking Bieber's calls . . . . .

[beam me up scottie]

27. Hillsong is socially ultra-conservative and has quite a history.

From its pedophile founder to gay conversion 'therapy' it's obvious that Bieber joined a deranged cult. The Daily Beast did some research and what they found was pretty disturbing:

Sex Abuse & Gay Conversion Therapy: The Dark Past of Justin Bieber’s Megachurch Hillsong

If I were to write you a story about the Australian Pentecostal mega-church Hillsong, then I would usually begin with a visit. I would line up with some of the 8,000 other lost souls on any given Sunday and tell you about the fashion vibe and about the rocking—but not too rocking—musical score that’s central to the worship. I’d write about millennials and celebrities coming together in the heathenish den that is New York City to literally raise their hands up to praise Jesus and perhaps take a selfie.

But really, there have been enough of these types of stories since Hillsong hit American shores in 2010. They’ve been written down or recorded on video by giddy reporters eager to document this seeming paradox of a church—a house of worship with a conservative theology that is led by and filled with millennials and hipsters. Everyone from The The New York Times to VICE has covered the scene inside Hillsong’s newest U.S. outposts in New York and Los Angeles—led by pastors Carl Lentz and Joel Houston, and Ben Houston respectively. It’s the church of Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin, Kendall Jenner and Kevin Durant. Where Sunday services surge with pop music and concert lighting and “Silent Night” is sung by midriff-baring flapper girls. Where a tattooed, mohawked preacher (who naturally lives in Williamsburg) wears a leather jacket in the pulpit and delivers sermons named after Bell Biv DeVoe songs. That would be Hillsong NYC’s leader, Carl Lentz—who is “not your typical pastor,” according to reporters at ABC News and the Associated Press and CNN, who have all written this exact sentence. Headlines have dubbed Lentz a “Rock Star Pastor.”

But the story I’m going to write is a different story, one with a more complex narrative beyond the celebrity baptisms and Broadway-style Christmas pageants. It’s a story that has even been well-documented. It’s a story of a church that has struggled with a shattering pedophile scandal. Of a church that has a long history of rejecting and even self-admittedly damaging its gay and lesbian members. A church with an ultraconservative record on gay marriage and abortion. A church whose coffers brim with millions in tax-free donations, with little accountability over where the money goes. This is the story that’s left out of breathless media reports about Hillsong’s preachers in YSL motorcycle jackets and all the glitzy good times at the glittering “Church of the Stars.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/sex-abuse-and-gay-conversion-therapy-the-dark-past-of-justin-biebers-megachurch-hillsong

[trotsky]

28. Aw, what a swell Christian.

His beliefs are clearly very important to him and serve as a powerful motivation.

[Zambero]

29. Scientology misses out again

How on earth could they have allowed low hanging fruit like JB to get away???

[beam me up scottie]

30. !