‘I’m Literally Speechless’—Skillet’s John Cooper Addresses Drag Queen at the Dove Awards

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“I never thought I would see pastors and Christian artists conflate the murder of the unborn with not giving women childcare after birth,” he said. “I never thought I’d see it in a million years.”

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Cooper added that he “never thought he would see pastors or Christian artists say that being empathetic and having a winsome tone is more Christlike than speaking truth and calling out evil.”

This has led us to “a grown man (Derek Webb), who is apostate—says he doesn’t believe in God, spends his time being an accuser of the brethren and someone who consciously hates Jesus…go on and say nonsense and have Christian people in the industry go, ‘He does kind of have a point.’”

“I don’t even know what to say. I’m literally speechless,” Cooper said.

Cooper’s new book, “Wimpy, Weak, and Woke,” releases Nov. 15.

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Jesse T. Jackson
Jesse is the Senior Content Editor for ChurchLeaders and Site Manager for ChristianNewsNow. An undeserving husband to a beautiful wife, and a father to 4 beautiful children. He serves as the chairman of the deacons, a growth group leader, and is a member of University Baptist Church in Beavercreek, Ohio. Follow him on twitter here (https://twitter.com/jessetjackson). Accredited member of the Evangelical Press Association.

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