Christians Take the Bait, Go into Snit, Help Promote Madonna
The Church of England has criticised Madonna’s appearance on a cross to kick off her latest tour in Los Angeles.
“Why would someone with so much talent seem to feel the need to promote herself by offending so many people?” said the church in a statement.
Madonna performed the ballad Live To Tell while suspended from a giant mirrored cross on the opening night.
David Muir of the Evangelical Alliance also accused the singer of “blatant insensitivity”.
“Madonna’s use of Christian imagery is an abuse and it is dangerous,” he said.
Dangerous?? How?? Is the church afraid that Christians are going to trip over this, fall, and hurt their feelings?
I really couldn’t give a rip about Madonna, her performances, or her music. But what always amazes me about these stories is how people line up to play the part of Charlie Brown ready to kick Lucy’s football, again and again and again. Don’t they realize that they are doing promotional work for her?
Vaguely talented female performers that can’t really sing, dance or act tend not to last too long.
Madonna: Say what you will, she’s stayed in the game for a lot longer than someone of her abilities should have. She’s very good at being a pop star.
–WKW
“I suppose it could be some kind of statement, but from Madonna I think its only designed to be offensive and attention whorish. ”
By depicting herself in a Christ like crucifiction. I guess it could have been upside down like Peter.
I guess I am giving her too much credit, and could care one way or another.
“someone with so much talent”!!!!! What? Who? Madonna?
Kiddies, here’s a lesson in Spanish: “Putona” means “Big ho’” And that’s how I call Madonna now.
Pushing the envelope? If she really wanted to push the envelope, she should have done the Mapplethorpe exhibit and stuck herself and her electric cross in a vat of yellow liquid. One show – good bye!
Isn’t this the same one who produced a music video in which she reads a verse from Revelations while being surrounded in flames?? What is it with this lady??????
You see, Christians will lose either way. If we sit back and say nothing, people will assume that such actions are okay, and that we don’t really care. And if we fuss about them, we draw attention to them and encourage them to continue.
Since Christianity has already come under attack lately via the Da Vinci Code, Madonna is just captilizing on that controversy in order to boost her own sales. She is using Christians to sell to non-Christians.
Maybe some of you don’t understand what it means for something to be sacred or dear to you, but if you do then you would realize the dilemma we are in. A greedy woman with no scruples is using the death of the person who you adore more than all else as a way to sell records. To put it into perspective, suppose she was reenacting the death of one of your loved ones to do this.
Peace.
“You see, Christians will lose either way.”–Sean
Sean, trust me, you will lose nothing by ignoring Madonna.