Beloved country music legend, Dolly Parton, has passed away at the age of 80, according to a message shared by her family on social media, saying in part:
Sadness lies with us, but not with Dolly. Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus, surely met by Carl (her late husband), her parents, and countless others who have watched her and longed for her to meet them in the heavens.
A message from the family of Dolly Parton. pic.twitter.com/9DNRgRx0uH
— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) August 25, 2026
Born in 1946, Dolly had a career for over seven decades and is perhaps best known for her hits “I Will Always Love You,” “Jolene,” and “9 to 5.” She has sold 100 million albums, released 50 studio albums, and won 11 Grammy Awards.
Parton, who notably has been pro-LGBTQ for decades, has talked about her faith openly, but it’s rarely in a distinctly Christian way.
Furthermore, Parton has not consistently or regularly attended a “traditional” church as an adult, choosing for the last 50 years to have ‘personal prayer time’ by herself while eschewing regular gatherings of believers or membership in any church body.
In a 2024 interview, Dolly Parton says people are probably REINCARNATED when they die, becoming a “GREAT FLOW OF DIVINE ENERGY.”
“I think it’s not the end of me. I don’t think it’s the end of any of us. I think we’re recycled and if nothing else, we just go back into that great flow of divine energy, and hopefully we can spread ourselves around in other wonderful ways. That’s what I hope.”
She told the New Humanist in 2024
“So much of who I am is based on my faith. I believed in God and I believed that through God all things were possible, and that through myself things were possible, if I hung on to my plan.
…We all need something to believe in, whether you believe in God or not, whether you call it Mother Nature or Father Time or a higher wisdom. You need to believe in yourself and you need to believe there’s a force that can push you and lead you on. I was always guided by that.
I’m very creative – what keeps me going is both spiritual and creative energy. I’m not a religious fanatic. I wouldn’t even say I’m religious, though I grew up with that background. But I have a lot of faith in myself and I’ve been so blessed to have been around great people my whole life, my Uncle Bill and my family being supportive, and all the people I met along the way.”
She likewise told Norah O’Donnell in 2023:
“Oh, I live my spirituality. You know, that’s how you practice it,…Mostly you just live it and be it. A lot of people overthink spirituality, you know? And they, therefore they think it has to be some big ritual.
But the kingdom of heaven is inside. It’s right inside of you. And you can draw from that wisdom, whether you call it God or higher wisdom or a higher knowing, there’s something bigger than you.
I just think you just need to claim it and live it, And you’re gonna apply that to whatever you do. I don’t think you have to be a saint. I don’t think you have to be so strict that you can’t have fun. You know, it’s all about the intent of your heart.”
When asked with how she deals with times when she can’t see the light, referencing her duet of Long as I Can See the Light” with John Fogerty, she told the Hollywood Reporter:
“Well, I try to show them. I try to shine with it and let them see it through me. I try to find the God-light in everybody and everybody shines. I see that in everybody. I go right to that God-light, and I don’t care if you’re Black or white or green or alien gray.
I go to that, because we’re all pieces of God and we all have that little God-light inside us. Some don’t get to let it shine. If I don’t see it first out, I’d go searching. That’s how I accept everybody because I know that we’re all pieces of God.”
11 responses to “Professing ‘Christian’ Country Singer, Dolly Parton, Dead at 80”
Who are you to decide what defines a “Christian” way. Christ never once spoke against anyone simply because of their sexuality or certainly their support for another regardless of their sexuality.
Dolly part fed the masses, both literally and spiritually. How many children have books that she donated? She funded vaccine programs against terrible disease.
You have no right putting those quotation marks on her name.
Scripture says we will know people by their fruit. She denied what God said about homosexuality. More importantly, she denied the exclusivity of Jesus as the only way to the Father.
Simply read her quotes and you will come to the same conclusion that she is at best, a cultural Christian and not a real believer.
The word of God defines what is and what is not a “Christian” way.
Two passages to meditate on:
– Isaiah 8:20
– James 4:4
“21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.” – Mark 7:21-22
’15 Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. 16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”’ – Rev. 22:15-16
“17“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. 19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” – Matt. 5:17-20
“15 He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous
are both alike an abomination to the LORD.” – Prov. 17:15
“8 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 9 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10 By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.” – 1 John 3:8-10
“2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.” – 1 John 5:2-3
“26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” – Heb. 10:26-31
“. 4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
5 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.” – Jude 5-7
“4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;c 7 and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked 8(for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); 9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, 10 and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.” – 2 Pet. 2:4-10
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She was an agnostic Gnostic from the sound of it. Nice lady who did the best with the knowledge and wisdom and experiences she’d received and stories she’d heard, but didn’t land and settle down on the Truth during her lifetime. If anything, the underscores how terrible the state of apologetics was during her formative years and in many regions still is. Calvinism is a cold, grumpy, gloomy, and loveless, and impotent school of Christian thought, but it definitely has a strong apologetical background. Similar could be said about Roman Catholicism.
How do you chose what verses of the Bible to believe and what not to believe? That is a satanic deception going back to Eve and it still works today. You either believe God is Righteous and true or you are believing God is a liar. That is a path that leads to destruction.
And as far as works goes:
Ephesians 2:8-9: “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.”
Galatians 2:16: “Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ.”
Titus 3:5: “He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy.”
Maybe actually read the bible and hopefully your eyes will be opened to the truth and not what Satan whispers to you through the culture. You certainly have fallen for his lies.
Mrs. Parton was, by all accounts, well-liked and generous. She lived in such a way that her beliefs were open to interpretation as anything for everyone.
Whereas the Apostle Paul “became all things to all people so that by all possible means he might save some” (1 Corinthians 9:22), Mrs. Parton’s motives seemed to be using her God-given talent and sex-symbol status to sell over 100 million records.
“Don’t you know if you love the world, you are God’s enemies? And if you decide to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.” James 4:4
To me, the difference is obvious. But ultimately, only Mrs. Parton and Jesus know if she gained the world and forfeited her soul (Mark 8:36).
Hey guys, Dolly actually makes the quoted statements about reincarnation and divine energy in a 2019 interview, not a 2024 one.
In the same podcast, her only reference to the Bible totally mangles Philippians 2:12.
“The Bible says, let every man seek out his own salvation. And that means to save himself, whatever it takes to save you. And if you can get to that place and you find your own peace, then you can do good for other people, if you’re at peace within yourself.”
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america/episodes/shes-alive?tab=transcript
I was just reading first Timothy chapter one and two and three today . chapter two i think it was had a lot to say about this topc. Also the short book of Jude does as well Jude is next to the last book in the bible called Revelation and First Timothy is also in the new testament section of the bible after.the short books of phillipans if i remember correct