Madonna and her crucifixion display.

[XabbaRus]

I have been seeing this story pop up every time Madonna plays a concert. The latest being a Dutch priest making a fake bomb threat to get the concert cancelled.

Now I'm not what you could call religious though nominally a Christian I have a few of my own ideas. However I actually agree with the condemnation of Madonna. I believe that there are certain things that should be respected and this is one of them. I can't see what point Madonna is trying to make, nothing political for sure. Personally I wish someone would crucify her as I'm getting fed up with the crap she spouts.

Anyway what do people here think. In short I think it is in bad taste, it is purely for show.

[Perilscope]

Me, I am Atheist, so anything to do with religion I do not care.
However, I would not insult anybody and in anyway in regards to his religion.

Now if I condemn Madonna's action, I do not know, as I did not see what exactly she does with the crucifixion. But if I was her, I would leave that "marketing method" for a moment, she's never going to sell me a ticket for sure anyway.:down:

Joe Satriani is the only music for me :up::rock:

[Skybird]

No. Let bad taste speak for itself. If we ban this, we have no grounds to resist to Muhammedan demands to limit freedom of press - then we must ban Muhammad cartoons as well. Legal laws cannot replace a detoriation of values and manners. The latter is a question of education, and someone's goals in life. If your only goal is money, then mindless performances like this are the result. Heal it by boosting up cultural life again, bring it back to a higher niveau. Don'T try to replace lacking arts and culture with police regulation - the mental vacuum will remain nevertheless. BTW, Western societies will survive her show, and very easily so.

[STEED]

Madonna = Bad taste

She is so boring. :zzz:

[kiwi_2005]

"Like a virgin, touch for the very first time... like a virrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgin....ZZZZT

I soooo hated that song! lol

[Sailor Steve]

No, I don't like Madonna. No, her silliness should not be banned. Free speech is free speech, and if it's not actual obscenity on stage, there shouldn't be a problem.

[The Avon Lady]

Ban? No.

Admit to her lousy music and vile taste in virtually everything she touches? Sure!

[tycho102]

I have no problem drawing "moral lines" between Christianity and islam. I have no compunctions against banning anti-Christian displays, and allowing anti-islamic displays. They do the exact same thing with us, so by Allah, I say level the playing field. Use taqiyya against their taqiyya.

However, Madonna is just a freak (I mean that socially, as well as sexually [*whew* she's a freak]).

Isn't Boy George and David Hasslehoff still popular in Europe? Poor taste does not necessarily warrant a bazooka. Just ostracize her like we've done over here, and move onto another freak. Lord knows there's plenty of them. Last I heard, Michael Jackson was roaming around that part of the world. With Madonna, you just have to protect your pets, but with Michael, you've got to protect your kids.

[TteFAboB]

It seems none of you have seen it, but after her moment of glory in this scene, people dressed with the David's Star and the Islamic Crescent enter the stage and start dancing together, while images of war, disaster and poverty are displayed in a large screen behind her. From the back-stage feature on the DVD (don't ask) I understood the idea is that Christianity is an evil religion responsable for the images behind her and for preventing Jews and Muslims from living together. Avon Lady, Konovalov, I'm so sorry!

Any Catholic Priest who gets involved with this mundanity should be immediately prosecuted by the Vatican for blasphemy and condemned to a 2 year refreshment course in an isolated Monastery. If he refuses to comply, he's excommunicated latae sententia for Heresy. How dare he lower the Church to Madonna's lower[est] ground?

I voted no. She and her show should be completely ignored except when seeking a bad example.

[jumpy]

Xabba, can you add another option to you poll?
- Don't care about a gap-toothed old hag whos overinflated sense of her own self importance has obviously caused her to loose the plot.

:yep::lol:

[Onkel Neal]

I miss the days when we could throw rotten lettuce and tomatoes at aging, desperate-for-attention pop stars.... ;)

[jumpy]

Who needs rotten fruit & veg when you have Paris Hilton? :rotfl:

[Konovalov]

Avon Lady, Konovalov, I'm so sorry!

Apology accepted Captain Needa, uh I mean TteFAboB. ;) Sorry but I've been watching too much Star Wars the last couple of days and just couldn't resist. :D

[Subnuts]

Moral of the story:

If you're a famous singer, and want to be respected twenty years after your first hit, don't base your entire career around being a slutty pop-tart. :roll:

[Yahoshua]

Madonna is just looking for fame that was body-bagged about 20 years ago.

She isn't going to get much more popular over here. Besides, I often enjoy watching people make idiots of themselves.

[bradclark1]

What does excommunicated latae sententia taste like? I've only drunk regular latae's myself. :|\\

[TteFAboB]

Apology accepted Captain Needa.

What does excommunicated latae sententia taste like? I've only drunk regular latae's myself. :|\\

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Well, Captain Needa here doesn't know what it tastes like either, but this guy does, why don't you ask him:

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3453/hell1qn8.th.jpg (http://img219.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hell1qn8.jpg)

[blue3golf]

No need to ban it, things like this have come to be expected outta her. After this concert tour she's just going to invent some other publicity stunt for the next one. Thats how she made her millions, being controversial.

[Perilscope]

...After this concert tour she's just going to invent some other publicity stunt for the next one...
That is the problem, she doesn't invent other publicity stunt, she's just like a broken down record, the same old lame theme over and over again. :dead:

[Iceman]

Madonna Who?

[The Avon Lady]

Madonna Who?
Yes, she's on first.

[Yahoshua]

Anyway, I thought she was into the karite thing.....(*Shivers*)

[d@rk51d3]

Madonna Who?
Yes, she's on first.



Who's on second?

Am I on third?

[The Avon Lady]

Madonna Who?
Yes, she's on first.
Who's on second?
Am I on third?
Naturally! :p

[Onkel Neal]

...After this concert tour she's just going to invent some other publicity stunt for the next one...
That is the problem, she doesn't invent other publicity stunt, she's just like a broken down record, the same old lame theme over and over again. :dead:

If Madonna was really an outlaw and rebel and was as tough as she likes to act, she would insult an Islamic icon, like the Koran or a picture of the Prophet. That's what I detest about people like her, insulting only people who will not kill her outright. She knows she can insult Christians, they will only protest her actions.

[Perilscope]

She knows she can insult Christians, they will only protest her actions.That's so true; she knows it would be one of her last stunts if she says or do something against the Islamic holy symbols.

[Onkel Neal]

Maybe some Russian will.... get really mad at her... ;)

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/12/russia.madonna.ap/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/12/russia.madonna.ap/index.html)

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/12/russia.madonna.ap/vert.madonna.burn.ap.jpg
She's so tough and rebellious... :roll:

I would give a month's salary to see her in a room with some p*ssed off Christian zealots. Bet she would wet her pants.

[CCIP]

I said this before and I'll say it again (and a smart Russian guy on a TV show that I saw did as well) - by publicizing and discussing this stuff, we're all basically falling in line with the shameless attention-whoring.

Let's face it, a lot of people on this planet are attention-craving schmucks who will go to unreasonable lengths to get what they want. Do we really have time to care each time one of them jumps out and waves something 'unorthodox' in front of us?