[Transcript] - Hello, I'm Madonna. My forgettable career in music would have ended long ago, but I just keep coming back because I love being in the headlines.
Many people, myself included, still haven't figured out that my public image has always been just a marketing ploy and not a way of life. In recent years, I've jumped on the bandwagon of middle-aged celebrities who've found God in one form or another. And to lower caste, middle income inferior people who've been religious all their lives and think I'm making a mockery of faith, listen up! Nobody cares about what you think. Look and learn from the lives of Moses, Saul, Khomeini and others. You have to murder, enslave, rape, destroy, betray and invert all that is romanticised as good and decent before anyone will take you seriously. Religion is politics, and politics is popularity. Decency is not popular, as is evidenced by religion's most popular figures.
So there. I was better than you when your kind saw me as unfit to influence your kid's lives, and I'm better than you now as a seasoned sinner whose come of age. Religion is there to embrace me as a saint and give me the attention I can't get anymore from popular culture.
"Just close your mind and open the Bible."
"What you people need to realize is that religion is for drunkards, harlots and the inherently amoral of the human race."
"That's what JESUS, our LORD and SAVIOUR said!"
"It is a way of coming to terms with one's own lack of character. We need that external set of values to feel good about ourselves."
"Those of you who are fair and balanced, reasoned and self governing are only wasting your time if you happen to be involved with religion. It's the solicitation of morality, plain and simple. It's supply and demand. People want what they don't have, and are willing to pay for it. If you already have something, let's say, virtue, don't expect your presence to be very welcome around those who don't."
"The best we can offer is to bring you down to our level of emotional freaks, overindulgent asses, skilled conmen and closet perverts. We can't control ourselves, but we want the rest of the world to be punished with us so that we don't have to feel so alone in our iniquities."
"To hell with all of you! I'm just out to prove that a camel CAN pass through the eye of a needle!" |
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