{"id":101177,"date":"2024-01-10T08:26:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T16:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=101177"},"modified":"2024-01-10T08:26:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T16:26:15","slug":"lil-nas-x-responds-to-criticism-for-alleged-mockery-of-religion-by-posing-on-a-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/lil-nas-x-responds-to-criticism-for-alleged-mockery-of-religion-by-posing-on-a-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X responds to criticism for alleged mockery of religion by posing on a cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lil Nas X<\/strong> found himself in a new controversy due to the promotion of his next song, &#8216;<strong>J Christ<\/strong>&#8216;, and he decided to respond to criticism for the alleged <strong>mockery of religion<\/strong> by posing on a cross with an explanation of his actions on his social networks.<\/p>\n<p>On January 8th, the rapper posted on his official social networks the announcement of a next project with a photo of himself being <strong>crucificed<\/strong>, which generated great controversy on the <strong>X platform<\/strong> (formerly known as Twitter), receiving much criticism for the religious representation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilNasX\/status\/1744396236029821424\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MY NEW SINGLE IS DEDICATED TO THE MAN WHO HAD THE GREATEST COMEBACK OF ALL TIME! <\/p>\n<p>J CHRIST<br \/>JANUARY 12, 2024<br \/>00:00 EST<br \/>BE THERE! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JEX6sSTft5\">pic.twitter.com\/JEX6sSTft5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u2606 \u2027dreamboy\u00b7\u00b7\u2027\u0329\u0325\u02df\u0359\u51ac\u02df\u0359\u2027\u0329\u0325l (@LilNasX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilNasX\/status\/1744396236029821424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After the <strong>mixed reactions<\/strong> to his new promotional material, the singer posted, &#8220;<em>the crazy thing is nowhere in the picture is a mockery of jesus. Jesus\u2019s image is used throughout history in people\u2019s art all over the world. <strong>I\u2019m not making fun of sh*t<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilNasX\/status\/1744405262025228674\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">the crazy thing is nowhere in the picture is a mockery of jesus. Jesus\u2019s image is used throughout history in people\u2019s art all over the world. I\u2019m not making fun of shit. yall just gotta stop trying to gatekeep a religion that was here before any of us were even born. stfu<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u2606 \u2027dreamboy\u00b7\u00b7\u2027\u0329\u0325\u02df\u0359\u51ac\u02df\u0359\u2027\u0329\u0325l (@LilNasX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilNasX\/status\/1744405262025228674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Between the critics, there were some loyal fans who praise his art and defend his acts; however, Lil Nas X decided to post an alleged acceptance letter to <strong>Liberty University<\/strong>, where he plans to attend <strong>to study Christian leadership and biblical studies<\/strong>, saying, &#8220;<em>Not everything is a troll!<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilNasX\/status\/1744865818125443325\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I know twitter hates me right now but i want yall to know im literally about to go to college for biblical studies in the fall. Not everything is a troll! Anyways IM A STUDENT AGAIN! LETS GOOO <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kTYbjevyZ7\">pic.twitter.com\/kTYbjevyZ7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u2606 \u2027dreamboy\u00b7\u00b7\u2027\u0329\u0325\u02df\u0359\u51ac\u02df\u0359\u2027\u0329\u0325l (@LilNasX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilNasX\/status\/1744865818125443325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 9, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Nas X found himself in a new controversy due to the promotion of his next song, &#8216;J Christ&#8216;, and he decided to respond to criticism for the alleged mockery of religion by posing on a cross with an explanation of his actions on his social networks. On January 8th, the rapper posted on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":101183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386,2264],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-entertainment"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}