By Judi McLeod
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Just in time for Christmas 2006, NBC Television has a November present for a large segment of their unwitting viewers: Madonna mocking the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Nothing's sacred for the singing shock-a-holic, who will go anywhere for self-aggrandizement, even to the Cross.
To untold believers the world over, the Cucifixion is sacred as manifestation of the Passion of Christ, something carried in the human heart for time immemorial.
Madonna, who thinks differently, is going to lay it on us: "Crucifixes are sexy because there's a naked man (Jesus) on them."
Down through the ages, others say it so much better:
"He had no form of comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.
He was despised, rejected and acquainted with grief;
He was wounded for our transgression and bruised for our iniquities;
Upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed." (Isaiah 53-2-5.)
The much beloved late Pope John Paul II, commenting on the Shroud of Turin spoke these words: "The shroud shows us Jesus at the moment of his greatest helplessness and reminds us that in that death lies the salvation of the whole world.
"It is the experience of Holy Saturday, an important stage on Jesus' path to glory, from which a ray of light shines on the sorrow and death of every person.
"By reminding us of Christ's victory, faith gives us the certainty that the grave is not the ultimate goal of human existence; God calls us to resurrection and immortal life.
"May the spirit of God, who dwells in our hearts, instill in everyone the desire and generosity necessary for accepting the Shroud's message and for making it the decisive inspiration in our lives."
In the upcoming NBC special, "Madonna, wearing a fake crown of thorns, descends on a suspended mirrored, disco ball-type cross," explains Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman of the american Family association. "Madonna has mocked Christ for many years. In 1989 she released a video for the song, Like a Prayer. The video featured burning crosses, statues crying blood and Madonna--representing Jesus--freeing a saint from his sexual repression by seducing him."
at the end of the day, NBC in its wisdom said they found nothing wrong with the scene mocking the Crucifixion of Christ.
"Such was not the case," Wildmon points out, "when NBC refused to show Danish newspaper cartoons depicting Muhammad in a negative light.
"NBC's message? Show respect for Muslims, but it is okay to bash Christians."
In concluding that there is nothing wrong with Madonna's crucifixion scene, NBC ignores an impressive 740,811 emails asking the network to cancel the crucifixion scene.
Like all TV networks, NBC succeeds or fails on ratings. NBC chooses to insult Christians because it is convinced it can afford to do so.
Madonna, who recently morphed from Material Girl to Material Mother in her controversial bid to adopt an african boy, has long fed a massive ego with outrageous publicity stunts.
But her most obvious meaningful association to the cross is that she's become one so hard for many folks to bear.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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