«Premarital chastity saved me, It's one of the best decisions I've ever made». A phrase that, to read it, today it will fuel the laughter of many, who will think that it could only have been the classic shy and good-looking newlywed who said it out of date, all house and church, eager to share his comically timeless testimony. By force. It's a shame that things are very different and the author of this enthusiastic apologia for abstinence is none other than the pop star Justin Bieber.
Ora, class 1994, bello, filthy rich (with a legacy of 200 million dollars, it's the under 25 richest in the world) and famous (hundreds of millions of followers on social media), the boy is not exactly the prototype of the parish boy. On the contrary, probably appears to be the furthest thing you can get from such a stereotype. Nevertheless, in the interview released in February 2019 to the magazine Vogue America with his wife, the model Hailey Baldwin, Bieber shocked everyone by describing his choice to live chastely as «a way to feel closer to God».
«Sometimes people have sex because they don't feel good about themselves», added the young pop star, «because they don't value themselves. I wanted to return to dedicating myself to God in that way because I felt it was right for my soul. And God rewarded me with Hailey». Speaking with Vogue, Bieber actually told us how, before meeting his sweetheart, had a troubled time, done on drugs, depression and sex addiction. A tunnel from which he was saved mainly by approaching faith and chastity, with the abstinence from sex that the singer practiced for about a year, much more than the three months of engagement with his future wife.
An engagement, as they said, interpreted as a gift. «I believe God blessed me with Hailey as a result», continued Bieber, «There are in fact advantages to living chastely. You are rewarded for good behavior». A reward that the singer seized upon given that, in September 2018, he got married in secret, even though he announced that he will repeat another ceremony in a few months, public and spectacular. Instagrammable, to put it in a term that conveys the idea.
Ora, it's clear that no one here intends to elevate Bieber to the rank of a witness of faith either, much less, sanctify it. Likewise, in an absolute sense his testimony is not even that surprising, given that a year ago the pop star spent - right on Instagram - words that went against the grain towards Christianity ("Jesus", he confessed, "It changed my life").
However, it is undeniable how his publicly defending the purifying reasons for premarital chastity can, in terms of effectiveness, millions of times more than the sermons of many parish priests. And because unfortunately the shepherds themselves now often avoid it, probably because they feel the topic is too unpopular, to talk about abstinence and sexual morality in general, and because the presence of young people in the parish and at Mass is increasingly residual; while instead social networks of which Bieber is one of the kings, of boys, they reach hundreds of millions. Who knows, therefore, that his beautiful and above all convinced words on chastity as a way to rediscover oneself could become, if not model, at least inspiration for many others. Maybe. The ways of the Lord are infinite. Pure sui social.
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