Posted on 01/15/2016 4:44:05 AM PST by Kaslin
When David Bowie died after a very private fight with liver cancer, obituary writers churned out words like "icon" and "legend" and "subversive." Despite a life of very fluid explorations of musicality and sexuality and spirituality, the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano celebrated Bowie as "never banal," displaying an "artistic rigor" which seemed to contradict the sexually "ambiguous image" he presented to "attract the attention of the media."
This star-struck eulogy ignored Bowie's 2013 album "The Next Day." His "artistic rigor" included a nasty anti-Catholic video, starring actor Gary Oldman as an angry priest. It begins with this priest punching a begging teenage boy in the face. He enters what appears to be a nightclub for priests (and a cardinal) who glance lasciviously at half-dressed women. Bowie "sings" (in this case, unmusically growls) "And the priest stiff in hate now demanding fun begin / Of his women dressed as men for the pleasure of that priest." He offers only cynicism toward these set-apart, celibate men: "They can work with Satan while they dress like the saints / They know God exists for the devil told them so."
For Crisis magazine, Father George Rutler added that this unofficial Vatican paper also celebrated the artistry of the notorious child-abuser Michael Jackson: "Everybody knows his problems with the law after the pedophilia accusations. But no accusation, however serious or shameful, is enough to tarnish his myth among his millions of fans throughout the entire world."
In the same vein, they (and everyone in the major media) also ignored new reports surfacing just in the last two months that Bowie deflowered a 15-year-old groupie named Lori Mattix (and then brought in her 15-year-old gal pal Sable Starr to make it a threesome). Mattix said it was consensual: "I remember him looking like God and having me over a table. Who wouldn't want to lose their virginity to David Bowie?"
But at 15, in California, it was statutory rape. In her story, she went from Bowie directly to "dating" Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page.
Bowie was never pressed to defend himself or deny the story. But it adds to the litany of famous male entertainers who've exploited underage girls with their celebrity, from Roman Polanski to Bill Cosby to Woody Allen. While the secular news industry in New York and the social justice warriors in Hollywood pour outrage all over the predatory Catholic priests who abused children in this same era of sex and drugs and "revolution," the rockers and the filmmakers plowed their way through a polyester playground of high-school groupies exploiting their "star privilege."
Not every allegation -- even happy boasts of being sky-high and "special" and deflowered at 15 -- is true. But in our media culture, the sexual abuse of children is only offensive when undertaken by hypocritical men who have violated a vow of chastity and try to impose ancient commandments on their followers. Only allegations against priests are so offensive that they are reported even when the evidence is slight, and even when the accused is deceased.
David Bowie died to universal acclaim, even from a star-struck Vatican newspaper. No one's obituary would deviate from the celebration an art-rock "icon" can expect.
I liked the Ziggy Stardust album and a couple of his singles, but otherwise I agree with you.
Again, I wasn’t suggesting that he was. I don’t know anything about the man and didn’t mean to imply anything about Bowie personally.
Not for me. I just follow what I believe Christ would want me to do. No person will ever love Christ as he loves us, it’s not possible. We will never be able to forgive another as Christ forgives us. So I accept my weaknesses, and try to do better and there isn’t a church that can do that for me.
It’s a bit egotistical imo to think that worthless us would be loved by the creator of a 13.7 billion year old universe.
Even if you’re an upstanding religious person, I’m not sure God really would give that much of a crap about you. Just my opinion.
I’ve known non-believers who could sing the most beautiful praises to God.
I do not judge whether he was saved, or not. Just as I do not for Obama. All I say is that I see little evidence of either knowing the Lord. But that’s God’s business, not mine.
We’ll all find out in the afterlife, if there is one or not. I hope there is. I can’t be certain of anything, I don’t have ‘blind faith’. I have hopes.
He's already been cremated.
yes when he was working at his job as a performer/entertainer he always weirded/creeped me out. Sorry he just wasn’t ever on my like list.
“Although that video with Mick Jagger was a bit cringeworthy...”
IMHO, “Dancing In The Streets” was not cringeworthy. It was total 80’s. Both guys looked like they were having a great deal of fun and not taking themselves too seriously.
1 John 5:13Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
But then again, what do I know? Faith is a choice.
Amen - not to mention that some of those who get all upset about the 15 year old girl have either "experimented" themselves while younger (almost 16 and just 18 ain't too far apart at that age) or been with a girl who appeared to be several years older than actual.
Lots of "mote in your eye outweighs the self-righteous log in mine" folks out there.
Doubt is the natural condition of mankind. Certainty gives us horrors for the most part, like islam. They are just as certain as you that killing a kaffir will send them to heaven in a suicide attack.
Doubt. That’s what’s important.
Doubt is fine when it’s present.
Despite my certainty, I do not advocate innocent Muslims, so your comparison is a little bit offensive, wouldn’t you say?
Don’t get me wrong. I’ve had my doubts; I may again. I may even be wrong. But at some time, you have to decide what you believe. You have chosen one way: I have chosen another. One day we’ll find out. That is, unless the “when-you’re-dead-you’re dead” people are right.
And then it won’t matter, will it?
Last year I got baptized. First time, at 41. I believe in Christ as a savior. However, I also believe you may just return to how you were before you were born when you die, nothing.
I try not to judge others, but I also think that being too overly convinced in something may be iffy.
Maybe.
There’s always a theorectical possibility that you are wrong.
This was greatness.
David Bowie with David Gilmour and Rick Wright - Arnold Layne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUJUUmUU9wM
I agree with that quote by Heinlein.
Entertainers are just that. Entertainers. In medieval days, they were "court jesters", kept on hand for amusement. They ate at the servant's table and lived in servant's quarters. They were treated special only in that they did not have to go out and work the fields with the other serfs, but nobody would ever consider them important in the big scheme of things.
There's nothing wrong with entertainers per se and I don't begrudge them the money they make in the modern age. However, we need to remember that their main function in life is to entertain us.
Well, then let’s let him cool off.
Reading it will obviously infer my own understanding.
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