Cockburn never would have expected a porn influencer to bring religious discourse back to the public square, much less one who cosplays as anime characters. Yet months after her come-to-Jesus moment, OnlyFans starlet Nala Ray has TikTok theologians arguing: “Is she too far gone to be saved?”
Ray, a self-described nerd who grew up a pastor’s kid, started her OnlyFans account in 2020. After being drawn to pornography because of the beauty of the human body (what else?!), Ray is “giving it all up for Christ.”
Conveniently, Ray is leaving OnlyFans after making over $9 million as one of the platforms top one percent of earners. She has deleted all but one video from the website since her conversion. “I posted a Christian video because I’m waiting on the tax documents and if I don’t have anything in there, they can completely delete the account while I’m waiting on the paperwork,” said Ray, who has no intention of losing her hard-earned dollars. “But we’re deleting it, everything’s been wiped off of it.”
Ray compared her testimony to Paul’s Damascene conversion. Creating adult videos is to Ray what persecuting Christians was to Paul.
“I feel like my testimony is very strong now,” Ray said during an interview with the Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles. “If you were a young girl thinking about starting an OnlyFans and being influenced by this current generation to start an OnlyFans, would you listen to the person that’s never been on OnlyFans or never had any direct connection to it saying, ‘Don’t do it, don’t do it,’ or would you listen to the person at the top of the hill who’s saying, ‘There’s a cliff after this’?.”
But not everyone is convinced that Ray is the twenty-first-century Paul. Among the most vocal critics has been anti-feminist vlogger Pearl Davis — and not without reason. Months before her conversion, Ray appeared on the Whatever podcast, where she revealed that one of her biggest fantasies is cheating on her partner or causing another man to cheat, saying, “I will cheat because I’m bored” and “I’ve been in relationships where I’m cheating with someone else and I’m like, ‘this is so hot.’”
Then, just a day before announcing that she was baptized, Ray posted a less than modest image of herself posed in front of a Christmas tree. “Why can’t one OF chick quit and not make it a spectacle,” Davis said, referring to the photo. “Can we make it believable? Could we just have a year where you guys like study or go to a hoe conversion therapy — I think Candace Owens wants to open one.”
While God can forgive Ray’s sins, men shouldn’t be have to, per Davis. In a video posted two weeks ago, Davis said Ray should not expect to get married anytime soon, comparing her to a car with a billion miles. Ironically, Davis is pushing thirty and unmarried. Ray, however, announced last week that she was recently married to Christian TikTok star Jordan Giordano. Davis could take notes from Ray — perhaps if she ups her body count, she could bag a good Christian boy post-redemption?
At the end of the day, only time will tell if Ray is another ex-porn star floating down the OnlyFans-to-tradthot pipeline — or a repentant child of God.
