C L O S E R

C L O S E R – Cruci-Fixion Lane

Posted on September 2nd, 2006 by .
Categories: Arts & culture, Internal Debates, Multiculti Issues.

And in case you find your maker perhaps you’ll plead for us a bit (Procal Harum – Crucifiction Lane)

When I was about thirteen and still lived at my parents farm, we had these people living in our neighbourhood. They also had a farm and their dad was still living there. He was an old nice men, perhaps a little bit forgetting things and telling wonderful stories that were obviously not true such as the one with the giant purple hare with a two by three udder…. He saw this hare in the old farmhouse that was now used as a place for their cows. In this farmhouse above the entrance on the inside their was also a big Crucifix. It was big and old and was hanging there a long time. So long that even the spider webs across the Crucifix were covered not only with dead flies but also with dust. Nevertheless, it was important to him he told me once when I took it off to have a closer look. You never he said what could happen in the future, perhaps he would need Jesus. It was holy for him, it wasn’t a dusty wooden thing covered with fly shit and dead flies, it was a hopefull promis for the afterlife; a life that was real for him since he was 92 at that time.

It is not surprising then that the program “God doesn’t exist” (God bestaat niet) was considered a blasphemy for example because of the following picture:
(Yes that is a naked black woman being crucified). This blew over and now we have in the Netherlands a row over the upcoming concert of Madonna, also about a crucifixion scene:

Watch the video with Madonna’s Live to Tell crucifixion scene:

According to Madonna this is a means to appeal to the audience to donate AIDS charities. Nothing wrong with that cause of course. Madonna probably feels the same and said “I don’t think Jesus would be mad at me and the message I’m trying to send,” in New York Daily News. Not everyone is inclined to believe this, such Thomistic:

Let’s face facts: Madonna has built her career mixing pop songs with visual imagery which has promoted sexuality at odds with Chrsitian values. She has posed naked for photographs throughout her career, and many of these pictures have glorified deviant sexual acts. She has a large homosexual following and, although she is not homosexual, she has frequently identified herself with homosexuals and homosexuality. She has, form the beginning of her career, mixed religious imagery with blasphemy [her Like A Prayer video, her movie Truth or Dare (which depicted her Blonde Ambition Tour) and even her recent album “American Life” where she has sung “there is no resurrection”]. Madonna is an apostate Catholic who has serious issues with the Catholic Church and Christianity in general. She has been quoted as saying the following:

“Crucifixes are sexy because there is a naked man on them.”

“Nuns are sexy.”

She has also suggested that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were sexually intimate (and this was in the early 1990’s, long before “The Da Vinci Code”).

Madonna has attempted to portray herself as having become softer and more spiritual, and I have heard many Catholics talk about this with hope that she is experiencing a conversion.

Hopefully, Madonna will come back home to the Faith she has abandoned and openly mocked. However, she will need to publicly retract much of her career and admit that her actions were blasphemous and that many of her works (like her “Sex” book, which she reportedly quietly regrets) which led countless souls into sin and darkness.

Once she has done such things, and renounced her denial of the Divinity of Christ and His Resurrection, I will be more inclined to listen to her speculations about what Jesus would think of her behavior.

This case brings not only to attention the way religion is portrayed in modern culture and mass media, but of course also how it is done and by whom and how people react to that. (more…)

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