There are a few things I’ve been meaning to comment on:

The Lord Madonna

Madonna has been using Christian symbolism from her beginning as a peppy, sex charged, pop star. Her name, the use of statues, anything Christian, etc., etc. is almost a constant component of her act.

Fr Joseph Huneycutt points this out in a post from about a week or so ago entitled: MADONNA: Sounds of Sanity.

I imagine that there are many explanations for this: she’s confused, she’s mentally unstable, she likes cheap PR tricks, it’s the only way she can keep her career alive (note that she rarely tours in the U.S. and can’t get a U.S. TV gig anymore), or she thinks she is a god…

Whatever the reason, I don’t bear her any ill will. She is simply a person who is so self-involved that she fails to see her own human value. She cannot see herself as God sees her.

Let us pray that she be given the grace to move from self-involvement to reality.

Islamo-Fascism

President Bush made a comment the other day in regard to terrorist plot to blow-up airliners in midair. He referred to the participants in this plot as Islamo-Fascists.

Now, I expect my president to be angered over plots to kill my fellow citizens (and any human being for that matter – yeah, I know). I expect him to express his outrage. I also expect him to use considered words – words that make some sense.

Calling the plotters Islamo-Fascists is one of the dumbest statements I’ve ever heard. Have you ever just starred at the TV incredulous over what you’ve just seen and heard? Well that was me.

Mr. President, if your grasp on political and historical movements is so weak as to mix metaphors on live television in the heat of anger (and I don’t believe for a minute that his indignation was anything other than contrived —“ he knew about this stuff for days or at least hours in advance of his words), then use a speech writer.

Fr. Jim Tucker has commented on this in his post: Commies, Fascists, and Other People We Don’t Like. It looks like he got a lot of flack and he followed up with: Sobran on Islamo-fascism.

In Mr. Sobran’s article he states:

In other words, Islamofascism is nothing but an empty propaganda term. And wartime propaganda is usually, if not always, crafted to produce hysteria, the destruction of any sense of proportion. Such words, undefined and unmeasured, are used by people more interested in making us lose our heads than in keeping their own.

Exactly.