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Jackie Hill Perry Warns That Beyoncé’s Music Has a Demonic Influence

 

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During the video, Perry emphasized that she has an aversion to expressing her opinion about too many topics. She is more concerned with teaching people how to have wisdom to discern answers to various questions for themselves. However, after pondering her position on Beyoncé for several months, Perry came to believe that God wanted her to speak publicly about her views on the singer.

“I was a self-proclaimed Beyoncé fan, secretly,” said Perry. “I been Team Bey since I was 8. I’m 33 now. Ok? That’s a long time.” A couple months ago Perry was considering whether or not God might want her to give up anything that had an evil influence on her life. So she prayed, “If there’s anything you want me to get rid of that has evil origins, let me know.” 

Perry said she expected God to ask her to give up some of her shoes, clothes, or maybe a random book. Instead, what came to mind was Beyoncé. At first, Perry did not think it was actually the Holy Spirit speaking to her. “I refused to believe that Jesus didn’t want me to still, like, be Team Bey,” she said. 

Then Perry started thinking about the lyrics to Beyoncé’s song, “Black Parade.” For example, some of the lyrics reference “Oshun energy.” Oshun is a river goddess revered by the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria. After doing a deep dive into researching the spirituality behind some of Beyoncé’s lyrics, Perry concluded that ever since her album, “Lemonade,” Beyoncé has “centered false deities. And embodied them.”

Another example Perry mentioned is that there is a scene in the film “Black Is King” where Beyoncé dresses like a cow. The artist, said Perry, is representing a deity called “Apis,” an Egyptian god Perry became aware of through studying Exodus. Exodus contains the famous account of the Israelites creating and worshiping a golden calf, and the reason why they made an idol of a cow, Perry explained, was that “one of the pre-eminent deities in Egypt was Apis.”

“The music made witchcraft beautiful,” said Perry. “And that’s the problem.” After doing her research on Beyoncé, Perry “deleted every Beyoncé album off my phone.” She felt a lot of grief about this decision because Beyoncé’s music had been important to her during key parts of her life. Nevertheless, Perry said, “I have to be willing to trust that protecting my heart from evil is a good thing. I have to believe that there are spiritual realities at play that as a wise Christian, I should not be opening myself up to.”

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