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Lindsay Lohan’s Jesus pose
Lindsay Lohan is once again stirring things up with a controversial photo shoot. She earlier posed nude to recreate a famous Marilyn Monroe photo shoot. This time, she’s channeling Jesus on the cover of Purple, a fashion magazine. She’ll be wearing a long, low-cut white gown and a headband that looks like a crown of thorns as she stretches her arms from side to side in a crucifix pose.
Politics Daily’s David Gibson quotes Bill Donohue, head of the Catholic League, and Donohue is understandably unhappy. He says that the pose is “inappropriate” and the timing is “offensive” since Lent starts next week:
Donohue noted that the “spiritually homeless” Lohan recently tweeted that “i’m all about Karma…what goes around comes around.” Added Donohue: “If she believes that, then it behooves her to apologize to Christians before it’s too late.”
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She will be the next Anna Nicole Smith. Just watch!
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We evangelicals could learn a lesson from the mistakes of the Catholic League here: Unholy people do unholy things. Inevitably. And publicly expressing outrage only indulges their cravings for attention.
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This poor girl has been on a long slump for way too long. We need to be praying for her–I can hardly stand to watch The Parent Trap these days because I find myself wondering what happened to that adorable young actress.
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Lohan wrote; “i’m all about Karma…what goes around comes around.”
As Brit Hume has pointed out for Tiger Woods who is said to be a Buddhist; “I don’t think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. So, my message to Tiger would be, Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world.” Fox News Sunday, January 3, 2010.
Exactly.
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Previously shared last month, but fits here:
A Buddhist priest in LA once told me and a group of high schoolers in my charge that “there is no such thing as sin.” There are only “smart actions” and “foolish actions.” She explained…
* Smart actions are things you do that create “good karma.” Do good for others and, in this life or the next, you will benefit when the good is reincarnated back to you in some way. It’s smart because you are creating your own good for yourself.
* Foolish actions create “bad karma.” If you hurt others, that hurt will revisit you in some way in this life or a later life of some kind. Such deeds are foolish because they shape your own future fate negatively. No one, not even a god, can free you from your karma (i.e. erase your foolish acts).
One of the high school girls with me raised her hand and asked this priest the best question possible: “So, if there is no sin in Buddhism, is there any such thing as forgiveness?”
The priest honestly replied, “Well, I guess not – not in the way Christians think of it.”
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According to Christianity, when we meet God, He introduces us to ourselves (and our sins). Most people are not willing to entertain such introductions. The “light” is just too bright for them. So they opt for believing in “karma” instead of sin.
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Disney seems to be running a kid star factory. They make stars out of them then when they are too old to be cute they cut them loose with little in the way of marketable skills. Miley Cyrus is on her way out and will be the next to be kicked to the curb. .
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Yes one will have to wonder how much of that $25 million that she got last year she will be able to keep.
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Michelle “This poor girl has been on a long slump for way too long” –
Michelle – she isn’t ignorant, she’s doing what she desires. People in that business want ATTENTION, and when they don’t get enough they sometimes stoop to anything. She isn’t “poor” anything, she’s a woman who strives to entice men and women alike to “look at me” – I feel sorry for the young people who haven’t been set on the right road by their parents and follow people like this woman, thinking that what she does is normal and clever.
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Pretty girls have always been a great force in attracting young men to Jesus. So He has become all things to all men:
“He made himself vain, taking the very nature of a celebrity, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as Lindsay Lohan, he humbled himself…”
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I believe I recall seeing the original Marilyn pose/photo shoot. But one can scarcely recall it without thinking of the autopsy slab pic of MM. Very sad.
If only she had not threatened to go public about her affair with RFK!!
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Serious question.
Who is Lindsey Lohan? (I saw the picture, just an ordinary pretty girl. I see prettier on FoxNews every day.)
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Chas, she is the latest young trollope/tart to be put on the H’wood celebrity dope/booze treadmill.
Think Judy Garland without the good taste.
Lohan has the distinction of being an alumnus of AA meetings while still legally unable to drink!
She needs Christ to heal her.
Atrocious family upbringing too from what I read.
You should set down Worldmag every so often and read the Enquirer and other checkstand publications. Best way to deal with slow checkout clerks!
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The only checkout stands I generally go through are at Ace Hardware. The sweetest woman in the world does the others.
Sounds like she needs Christ to heal her.
I know some other poor girls, (& a couple of guys) not as pretty or famous (or rich??) who have such family environment that it seems they have no chance in life.
It’s sad when a kid starts out with two strikes.
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I think the complaints here are a bit hypocritical. When Lindsay Lohan strikes a Jesus pose, folks are outraged; when Sarah Palin strikes a Jesus pose, folks fall down in worship.
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It’s amazing to compare the amount of time Christians spend praising there religion for the influence it’s had on Western culture, literature, and the arts with the amount of time Christians spend complaining when their religion is referenced in culture, literature, and the arts!
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And if she’d dressed up as Mohammed, what would have happened?
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An apt comparison NJLawyer: Muslim fundamentalists and Christians who read World; more similarities than you might realize.
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Pfft. She’s not fooling anyone.
I’ve always thought fashion was out there, but this is quite weird. Is that look now fashionable?
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Interesting that she would pose as the only man who can save her now. Reminds me of a line from the Harry Chapin song 30,000 Pounds of Bananas. The lyrics are below for your enjoyment.
It was just after dark when the truck started down
the hill that leads into Scranton Pennsylvania.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Carrying thirty thousand pounds (hit it Big John) of bananas.
He was a young driver,
just out on his second job.
And he was carrying the next day’s pasty fruits
for everyone in that coal-scarred city
where children play without despair
in backyard slag-piles and folks manage to eat each day
about thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes, just about thirty thousand pounds (scream it again, John).
He passed a sign that he should have seen,
saying “shift to low gear, a fifty dollar fine my friend.”
He was thinking perhaps about the warm-breathed woman
who was waiting at the journey’s end.
He started down the two mile drop,
the curving road that wound from the top of the hill.
He was pushing on through the shortening miles that ran down to the depot.
Just a few more miles to go,
then he’d go home and have her ease his long, cramped day away.
and the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes the smell of thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
He was picking speed as the city spread its twinkling lights below him.
But he paid no heed as the shivering thoughts of the nights
delights went through him.
His foot nudged the brakes to slow him down.
But the pedal floored easy without a sound.
He said “Christ!”
It was funny how he had named the only man who could save him now.
He was trapped inside a dead-end hellslide,
riding on his fear-hunched back
was every one of those yellow green
I’m telling you thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
He barely made the sweeping curve that led into the steepest grade.
And he missed the thankful passing bus at ninety miles an hour.
And he said “God, make it a dream!”
as he rode his last ride down.
And he said “God, make it a dream!”
as he rode his last ride down.
And he sideswiped nineteen neat parked cars,
clipped off thirteen telephone poles,
hit two houses, bruised eight trees,
and Blue-Crossed seven people.
it was then he lost his head,
not to mention an arm or two before he stopped.
And he slid for four hundred yards
along the hill that leads into Scranton, Pennsylvania.
All those thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
You know the man who told me about it on the bus,
as it went up the hill out of Scranton, Pennsylvania,
he shrugged his shoulders, he shook his head,
and he said (and this is exactly what he said)
“Boy that sure must’ve been something.
Just imagine thirty thousand pounds of bananas.
Yes, there were thirty thousand pounds of mashed bananas.
Of bananas. Just bananas. Thirty thousand pounds.
of Bananas. not no driver now. Just bananas!”
From Greatest Stories Live: Ending #1
Yes, we have no bananas,
We have no bananas today
(Spoken: And if that wasn’t enough)
Yes, we have no bananas,
Bananas in Scranton, P A
From Greatest Stories Live: Ending #2:
A woman walks into her room where her child lies sleeping,
and when she sees his eyes are closed,
she sits there, silently weeping,
and though she lives in Scranton, Pennsylvania
She never ever eats … Bananas
Not one of thirty thousand pounds …. of bananas
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Joel #5 – an interesting book on the topic is Reincarnation Vs. Resurrection, by John Snyder.
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Buzzy,
I’ve wondered where you’ve been.
Perhaps digging through your archives?
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Don’t play that lame disingenuous Mohammed card. We all know that Christianity and Islam don’t share the same beliefs about visual depictions of God. Were Lindsay to dress up as Mohammed the “Lindsay factor” wouldn’t come into play since NO ONE is supposed to dress up as Mohammed.
Unless you all have never been to a Stations of the Cross or seen the gift card and book mark section at one of your infamous book sellers, you KNOW that you are comparing apples to oranges. And that is super lame.
Plus, I feel obligated to make it clear that Lindsay is not dress up AS JESUS. She is wearing a Christ motif. It is hypocritical and more than a little assuming to say that an alter boy can dress up AS JESUS but Lindsay can’t riff off of his look. Or rather that she can’t riff of the artistic interpretations of Jesus by Italian painters.
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Mynock, you might want to read up on Christianity (particularly Protestant Christianity) and visual images of God before you get too huffy. Protestantism as a rule doesn’t approve of such images; some do and some don’t “accept” visual images of Jesus, but as a rule, we don’t accept visual images of God. But the fact remains that this is mockery, whether or not we accept visual images of God. And the religion of death (Islam) doesn’t accept mockery very well, so people usually steer clear, while many have no problem mocking the God who created them.
Oh, and Muhammad isn’t seen as a god, either, simply a prophet. So refusing to have an image of him would be similar to thinking a drawing of Moses is inappropriate, which I’m pretty sure no one does. (Possibly Jews do; I don’t know.)
In short, people show Islam respect they don’t begin to show Christianity . . . probably because mocking Islam can get you killed, whereas mocking one’s Creator has consequences in the next life, but often not in this one.
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Rondu – thank you, it’s nice to know somebody noticed my absence. I’m not sure what you meant about the archives though ….
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Think Judy Garland without the good taste
LOL Sawgunner.
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If God is all powerful, whether He is the God of Christianity or the God of Islam, He is probably not too worried about whether people are showing respect for Him.
On the other hand, a lot of the followers of these and other gods, worry about his quite a bit, sometimes to the point of killing other folloers to teach them to be respectful, or perhaps only posting dozens of silly comments on on line forums.
If there is a God, He probably isn’t paying much attention to this piffle.
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Is this what Random would term R E S P E C T? All these folks complimenting Christians and Christianity this way?
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#3 Michelle: “I can hardly stand to watch The Parent Trap these days because I find myself wondering what happened to that adorable young actress.”
Oh, ditto – that is one of my favorite movies. Just a reminder that the seeds of any and all sin reside in the hearts of us all.
If man is not made for God,
why is he only happy in God?
If man is made for God,
why is he so opposed to God?
Blaise Pascal, quoted in R.C. Sproul, “The Holiness of God”, p. 131.
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Make It Man: If you’re talking about the folks on this blog trolling, just ignore em. They’re desperately looking for attention. There’s an amusement reading some of these comments
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This isn’t exactly the first time this has happened, either, is it?
I thought I heard that Kanye West did something similar a while back.
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Michelle #3:
“This poor girl has been on a long slump for way too long. We need to be praying for her–I can hardly stand to watch The Parent Trap these days because I find myself wondering what happened to that adorable young actress.”
Victoria #8:
“I feel sorry for the young people who haven’t been set on the right road by their parents and follow people like this woman, thinking that what she does is normal and clever.”
I agree, Michelle. Victoria, perhaps LL was not set on the right road by her parents as well.
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CT and MYNOCK are funny. Reading only their posts, one would think there was this huge, rapid outrage among Christians over the Lohan pose. Then reading the Christian posts in here, one would wonder who CT and MYNOCK had in mind with their canned hypercriticism.
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