SATURDAY SPECIAL: Skillet’s Cooper On America Changing The Definitions Of Good And Evil
John Cooper of the Christian rock band Skillet watched the Grammy performance of female artists Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion graphically simulating sex on stage and saw something profoundly relevant and important to every person in America, not just those working on Capitol Hill.
John Cooper, Cooper Stuff and Skillet. (Screenshot from YouTube).
“You haven’t seen it, you don’t really need to it, it’s pretty weird, pretty weird stuff,” Cooper says on his latest “Cooper Stuff” video on YouTube. “I’m not going to go off on this just because everybody is talking about it. This is a perfect example because it’s so silly and its so overt. It’s a perfect example to talk about some of the larger picture things.”
And what might those larger things be? Nothing less than how we are redefining good and evil, according to Cooper.
“We’re living in a world right now where there are certain Dr. Seuss books that you cannot sell on eBay. They’re just too much for anybody to even be allowed to buy. They’re being yanked down from all the bookstores and stuff like that. It’s just too much. It’s too evil, so you can’t go on eBay and buy it,” Cooper explained.
“But you can — and you must — applaud the sexual degradation of Cardi B and Meghan Thee Stallion simulating sex together on the Grammys. This is the perfect example. You must celebrate it. In fact, if you don’t celebrate it, then you’re actually a bad person and you kind of, like, don’t love people, right? You’re actually not nice,” he continued.
“Why would anybody ever call evil good and good evil,” he asks. Ya gotta watch the video to hear the answer to that extraordinarily important question: