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Who misappropriated what?
    #5666603 - 05/23/06 09:30 PM (17 years, 8 months ago)

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LOS ANGELES -- Less than 12 hours after Madonna crucified herself on a mirrored cross, the Catholic League expressed its discontent with the concert stunt.

The controversial diva wore a crown of thorns and sang while hanging from a cross during Sunday night's opener of her "Confessions" world tour at The Forum in Inglewood.

"Knock off the Christ-bashing," Catholic League president Bill Donohue said in a statement Monday. "It's just pathetic."

Though Donohue said that Madonna "has been spicing up her act with misappropriated Christian imagery for a long time," he thought that her faith in Kabbalah might inspire new respect for religion.

"I guess you really can't teach an old pop star new tricks," he said. "Poor Madonna keeps trying to shock. But all she succeeds in doing is coming across as a boring bigot."






Or rather, who's misappropriation is worse? Madonna hanging from a mirrored cross as part of her pop act, or the Church using the savior hanged on a cross as its focal point? Maybe someone in the Catholic League can explain how vicarious atonement has become the keystone of a religion supposedly founded on the teachings of Christ. Or maybe the crucified savior is an all too appropriate focus for a faith who's prime directive is something as selfish and fear-based as "Accept Christ or you're Doomed!" What better imagery for a church who has misappropriated the spirit of its Messiah. They'd probably still have him up there weeping on Golgotha if they knew it would save them.


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