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The BBC reports:

Madonna has defended a controversial mock crucifixion in her stage show, saying it is part of an appeal to the audience to donate to Aids charities.

“I don’t think Jesus would be mad at me and the message I’m trying to send,” she told the New York Daily News.

The question isn’t so much whether or not Jesus would be mad. I think the question is whether or not he’s be pleased. 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.

Other than being in the right place at the right time

WARNING! Harsh language alert. If you’re easily offended, I suggest you pass on reading this post.

Our generation’s Pearl Harbor… the 9/11 Attacks. We all remember where we were and what we were doing when we first started getting news of the attacks.

One of the moments that’ll stay with me forever was the video of Mayor Giuliani on the streets of Lower Manhattan not long after the hits. As Hizzoner was being led by his aides hither and yon, all of a sudden… there was a roar of jet aircraft engines from above.

Needless to say, everyone immediately looked skyward with that “oh shit!” look on their collective faces. And of course, a few people actually gasped out loud what everyone was thinking — “is it another hijacked plane!!??”

And for anyone who’s ever been in the concrete canyons of New York City, if you’re street-level, all you’re going to see of the sky is just a wee slice. But for a flash of a moment, two jets streaked by… and one of Giuliani’s entourage, in a moment that was a scene straight out of a World War II movie, yelled out “THEY’RE OURS!!”

You guessed it. A couple of US Air Force F-15′s just arrived and were flying CAP (combat air patrol) over New York City. And what a stirring moment that was.

And then something weird happened. Everyone had a certain look on their faces. To me, it was like everyone was thinking the same thing that I was; “Damn right they’re ours. And payback’s gonna be a bitch”. And there was Rudy, center stage. The focal point… no…. the rallying point for us all.

Now to the gist of my post.

OK, so what did Giuliani actually do? Did he formulate a national strategy to fight Islamo-Terrorism? Did he forge any alliances with friendly nations to battle said Islamo-Terrorists? Did he order the New York City Marine Corps into any battles in various and sundry places throughout the world to kill aformentioned Islamo-Terrorists?

No… he didn’t. In essence, Rudy was in the right place at the right time, and that’s it.

Time for some straight talk; as long as you didn’t piss your pants on national TV, anyone who was mayor of New York at the time would have been looked upon as a hero. Hell, Stewie could have been the mayor at the time. Does that mean he’d be qualified to be president?