RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
November 2, 2022 at 9:40 am
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2022 at 10:13 am by Fake Messiah.)
When Madonna released the Like a Prayer music video on MTV, christian groups worldwide including the Vatican condemn Pepsi's links with Madonna and called for a global boycott of Pepsi and its subsidiaries, including KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.
Pope John Paul II involved himself in the matter and encouraged fans to boycott the singer in Italy. Protests prompted Italian state television network RAI and Madonna's record company WEA to not air the video there. The video was also deemed offensive by the Christian fundamentalist American Family Association (AFA). Madonna stated that "art should be controversial, and that's all there is to it", about the controversy.
Most TV stations banned the music video, but MTV remained one of the only channels to air the music video on heavy rotation.
Pope John Paul II involved himself in the matter and encouraged fans to boycott the singer in Italy. Protests prompted Italian state television network RAI and Madonna's record company WEA to not air the video there. The video was also deemed offensive by the Christian fundamentalist American Family Association (AFA). Madonna stated that "art should be controversial, and that's all there is to it", about the controversy.
Most TV stations banned the music video, but MTV remained one of the only channels to air the music video on heavy rotation.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
