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Lady Gaga vs. the Bible: An Obscene-Off
Posted on 19 May 2012 by Red Tani.

Lady Gaga will perform in the Philippines, but not if some bigots can help it. Biblemode Youth Philippines has gone on Bible Mode, calling for the blasphemous concert to be canceled. Their protest leader, former Congressman Benny Abante, threatened to file a lawsuit if she sings “Judas,” a performance protesters consider obscene, and therefore, illegal.
Penal Censorship

Former Manila Mayor Jose Atienza agrees, saying that such obscenity is punishable by six months to six years in prison under the Revised Penal Code. According to Article 201 — which was also used against Mideo Cruz’s Jesus-Penis-Juxtaposition in Polyteismo — obscenity applies to immoral displays that

(1) glorify criminals or condone crimes;

(2) serve no other purpose but to satisfy the market for violence, lust or ****ography;

(3) offend any race or religion;

(4) tend to abet traffic in and use of prohibited drugs; and

(5) are contrary to law, public order, morals, good customs, established policies, lawful orders, decrees and edicts.

Judas vs. Jesus

The music video of “Judas” depicts “Jesus and his disciples as a motorcycle gang and tells the story of Jesus’ betrayal, with Lady Gaga playing the role of Jesus’ girlfriend, who is torn between her loyalty to Jesus and her love for Judas.”

Out of the 5 criteria for obscenity, “Judas” is guilty — by my judgment — of just one: (3) offending any race or religion. (1) doesn’t count (unless the motorcycle gang Jesus belonged to was a criminal one). Nor does (2) because beyond the stunts and gimmicks, many people actually like her music. (4) is arguable but unlikely. And (5) refers to laws, public order, and other supposedly non-sectarian rules — not the doctrines and opinions of a single sect or religion.

Fans vs. Fanatics

Lady Gaga is no stranger to such controversy — South Koreans protested to prevent infecting the youth with “homo***uality and ****ography,” and in Indonesia, the Islamic Defenders Front said “they were ready to die to stop the concert.”

But should the concert be canceled — like in Indonesia — or censored — like what could happen here — it’s not Lady Gaga who’ll be affected most — it’s the fans. The right to freedom of expression implies the right to freely access artistic expressions in their uncensored form. To defend their right to enjoy an artist they admire — and to protect the ideals of free speech in general — Lady Gaga’s fans should counter-protest, and I’m suggesting this is how they do it.

Gaga vs. Bible

They should file a case against Biblemode Youth Philippines for giving the youth access to the most obscene artistic expression ever made: the Bible. Compared to the Bible, a Lady Gaga concert looks like an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. No one will dispute this, at least not anyone who has read the Bible — cover to cover, not just homily material. The Bible is so obscene that other than criterion (4), it is guilty of violating criteria (1), (3), and (5) many times over, and of (2) as well — unless you consider “being terrified of God” as a valid purpose.

The Bible is full of obscenity, filled with verses and verses not only of *** and violence, but every form of injustice, intolerance, and incitement of hatred against women, LGBTs, and even children.

I know many of you won’t read the Bible — especially if you’re a Bible-thumping Christian like Manny Pacquiao — so I’ll list just one example for each criterion of obscenity (except the fourth) to prove that more than Lady Gaga, the Bible is deserving of censorship, if not banning.



(1) glorify criminals or condone crimes

The Bible has many graphic stories that depict and even condone slavery, murder, genocide, torture, infanticide, and other atrocities that any non-psychopathic person would consider criminal. Here’s one.

To gain Saul’s approval, not to mention his daughter, Michal, David and his men not only killed a hundred Philistines, they also performed postmortem circumcisions, offering the Philistine foreskins — the 100 they individually counted — as bride price.

(2) serve no other purpose but to satisfy the market for violence, lust or ****ography

Banging on a door, some wicked men wanted to gang rape a man, who was a guest in the house. The hospitable homeowner offered his own daughter and the guest’s concubine to be gang raped instead.

The wicked men didn’t agree, so the homeowner pushed the concubine out from the house into the wicked men. Gang rape ensues. The next morning the homeowner, finding the concubine dead, did the sensible thing and chopped up her body, limb from limb, into twelve parts before mailing them to all the areas of Israel.

Does the story have any other purpose “but to satisfy the market for violence, lust or ****ography”? And even if this did teach some moral lesson (pray tell, what?), the violence is just too gratuitous for an allegory.

(3) offend any race or religion and (5) are contrary to law, public order, morals, good customs, established policies, lawful orders, decrees and edicts.

God hates the Midianites because they worship Baal of Peor. He told Moses to kill all Midianite leaders, or else, he’ll keep punishing them with a plague. So Moses ordered Israel’s judges to kill Israelites who converted to Baal worship.

One day, an Israelite man brought a Midianite woman into camp. Phinehas, not a judge, followed the couple into their tent. As they were having interracial interreligion ***, Phinehas thrust a sphere through both of their bodies. (Talk about double penetration.) For taking things into his own hands instead of letting the state (judges) enforce the law, God rewarded Phinehas and stopped His plague.

Child ****ography

Any one of these stories depicts something more immoral than any stunt Lady Gaga could pull, and this is but a small sample of similar stories scattered in both the Old and New Testament. What’s worse, the Bible does more than depict immorality — it condones and even justifies it.

Yet with all the ****ography and gratuitous violence in the Bible, it’s probably the easiest book for anyone to access — children included. (It’s a good thing children generally think the Bible is boring. That old copy at home won’t be so dusty if the children knew there was enough *** and gore in it to make most video games dull in comparison.)

Some may argue that the stories aren’t so bad when read in context. But imagine what would happen if a fundamentalist studio were to show a movie depicting these scenes. Would it get a PG rating from the MTRCB? Would it be any different if there was narration that put the scenes into context? And what difference does putting it in book form make? Didn’t fundamentalist groups also call for the censorship of Harry Potter, Da Vinci Code, and the novels of Jose Rizal?

I’d be interested to see the outcome of such a case should Lady Gaga fans follow my suggestion. If they don’t, maybe it’s FF that should challenge the Bible’s immunity to censorship. In any case, somebody should do it. Think of the children.

source: Lady Gaga vs. the Bible: An Obscene-Off | Filipino Freethinkers

[chua_riwap]

I was in Moa complex earlier this morning. May mga board-up pa. tuloy ba talaga?

tuloy yan!
nakabili na ng tiket si PNoy eh......

[KickOFF]

Ganyan kyo eh.. Mabuti lang kayo sa satsat.. Pero kapag may nangyari na iiyak iyak kayo jan.. Kung gusto nyo manuod nang isang Demonyo gaya ni LADY GAGA.. Bakit hindi kayo sa ibang bansa manuod sa kanya.. Idadamay nyo pa yong ibang tao at yung pamilya nyo.. Tandaan nyo nasa huli ang pagsisisi... Buksan nyo ang mga mata nyo.. Nabulag kayo sa mga kanta nyang anti-christ... Come on guys.. Remember The 10 Commandments of God? Do not worship any other God & Do not make any idols.. At hindi ibig na walang kang relihiyon pwede kana manuod ng concert ni LADY GAGA.. Kasi parang lumalabas na mas kampi ka sa demonyo.. Isipin mo nalang ang ginawang sakripisyo pagpapapako sa krus ni Jesus.. Para maligtas ka sa iyong mga kasalanan.. Isipin mo nalang din hindi ka magkakaroon ng perang ipangbibili mo ng ticket na yan kung hindi ka binigyan ng Diyos ng isang maganda buhay at trabaho.. Kung nagawa ng indonesia at korea na pigilan si LADY GAGA.. Magagawa din natin sya pigilan mag concert d2 sa bansa.. Bahala na kayo kung isipin nyong OA kami.. So what? Atleast alam nmin sa sarili nmin kung sino ang aming Diyos.. Sa 2 nights show nya marami ng pwedeng magbago at mawala sa inyo.. Wag na wag nyo din sabihing na kung ayaw nmin manuod wag kaming pumunta.. Hoy! Nasa iisang bansa lang tayo.. tandaan nyo yan.. Wag kayo masyadong sakim.. Wake up! Isip isip muna ha..

[renzo_d10]

[c_cube]

*kickoff

:popcorn:

:funny:

:funa:

[chua_riwap]

favorite song ni kick off?

poker face

[c_cube]

yun unang single kaya ni lady gaga na just dance hindi nila ginamit sa mga christmas party nila o anuman party na pinuntahan nila.

sigurado ako sumayaw si *KICKOFF sa kanta na yun

[Harangody]

Tangina may Kapatid nanaman na lumabas!
Aralin mo kasi ang English language at meaning ng metaphor.

[Harangody]

Judas is about falling in love with the wrong person, making mistakes, etc. Pa-cool lang kasi kayo! Intindihin niyo kasi muna. Nagmumukha tuloy kayong tanga.

[chua_riwap]

^easy....easy lang.
baka naman hindi siya kasapi sa isang grupo na tinuran mo, sir.