British born singer M.I.A., who comes from a Sri Lankan family, is facing a backlash from leftists after speaking about her conversion to Christianity.
The rapper and singer has been incredibly successful over the past two decades, with incredibly successful singles such as Paper Planes which led to her even performing at the Super Bowl Half Time show with Madonna.
Now, in an interview with Christian online magazine Relevant, she has expressed her amazement at her own unlikely conversion to Christianity in recent years.
Raised in a culturally Hindu family, M.I.A. states that she converted after having a vision of Jesus in 2017, which subsequently led to her taking a hiatus from music.
I wasn’t asleep. It wasn’t a dream. It wasn’t a hallucination.
My first reaction was to laugh. I couldn’t believe that’s what was happening. I just couldn’t believe it was real. I didn’t believe Jesus was real. I always thought he was made up, or not even made up, but I just always thought it was a silly story.
I literally got saved in a very physical sense. And I think that’s what it is. When you need saving, the person who turns up — no matter who you are and no matter what religion or no matter what status or what you are — if you are in need and you need saving, the person who turns out to save you is Jesus. That is what he’s known for.
She stated that other people have reacted in strange ways since:
If you say you’re a Christian, I feel like you have to be this person who’s against this thing, who’s against this president, who’s against that thing, who’s against Twitter. It’s so crazy.
The concept of Christianity is very much based in being there for the needy or helping the needy and saving people and giving people a clearer path to God.
The more I understand the complexities of the world, the simpler I find things really are. And funny enough, Christianity is very simple; it’s because those things are really simple. The world is really simple.
In my time of need, the God that turned up to save me was not Shiva. It was Jesus. That is the truth, and I have to say that.
I feel like I got shown something, which now I cannot censor in my life and be like, ‘Christianity is fake or Christianity is social control. It’s made up to colonize people,’ whatever the thing is. I can never say that because I actually know the truth.
But in terms of me loving every aspect of humanity and every person no matter what they believe in and where they come from, that’s still exactly the same.
And that’s the basic message in what I would like to say.
The reaction to her words from leftists has been visceral, with many trying to cancel her for her beliefs.
She hit back at them on Twitter, saying it was the ‘biggest backlash in my career’.
