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September 17, 2007
Buying Salvation
So many of you have written me privately, to send me links to the story, quotes, and pictures of Madonna in the Holy Land, claiming to be an Ambassador for Judaism. It was my intention to just let this one slip by, mostly because I have no interest in Madonna, and I'm disgusted with both Shimon Peres and the Kabballah Centre. But, since you asked...
I am Jewish. My parents are Jewish. My Grandparents are Jewish. My Great Grandparents are Jewish, all the way back to the beginning of time. I am an Ashkenazi Jew, to be specific, Tay Sachs gene and all. That doesn't make me an expert on all things Jewish, its just a fact of what I am, what I was born to be, and what I will always be. I don't speak for other Jews, I speak only for myself, and from my own personal experience.
Regardless of what she says, Madonna is not Jewish. She is just playing with Hollywood's religion of the month, a designer religion made up by a savvy entrepreneur who has discovered a way to make a boatload of cash off lost souls searching for validation and salvation.
I visited the local Kabballah Centre back in 1998, after my brain surgery. Since I was forbidden to work, I had too much time on my hands, and I was curious. So I sat in on a beginner's class, with my head still wrapped in bandages, topped off with a baseball cap. Kabballah 101. It was interesting, and I liked the Rabbi. He was a young and personable guy.
So, I signed up for a few classes, and attended the first few faithfully. I'm not going to go into the basics of what they teach, its just too complicated to get into here and now. Suffice it say that it is based upon redemption, deed and action and the consequences of one's behavior. Sound familiar?
After a couple of classes, the Rabbi singled me out for a little talk after class. He urged me to make an appointment to meet with him privately, he had noticed my bandages, and he told me he knew things that would help me. It seems that my tumor was the result of my behavior in my past life, and I needed to do certain things to correct the situation or my next life would be even worse. Whoa!
Call me crazy, but I have never believed that my brain tumor was a punishment from G-d.
Still, I am a curious creature, and the next day, I called to make the appointment. I wanted to hear what he had to say. The lady who answered the phone passed me to the Rabbi's secretary, who made the appointment for me. When I asked how much the appointment would cost... she said the strangest thing. "Bring your credit card."
My credit card? Whatever for? Just tell me how much I can expect to pay. And the Rabbi's secretary explained that the Rabbi would likely give me a prescription to be filled, of course, at the Kabballah Centre store, all for my salvation. Yes, the Kabballah Centre store, where one can buy Kabballah Water (bottled straight from the tap in Canada) for $10.00 a bottle. Special Canadian water that they claim can cure cancer. Yeah, sure.
There is also available special incense and candles and special red string to wear around my wrist, to ward off the evil eye spell that was surely placed on me by an evil enemy and likely caused my brain tumor, the same brain tumor that presumably was the fault of my bad behavior in another life, or perhaps caused by my failure to drink many bottles of $10.00 Canadian tap water surrounded by the smoke and smell of special Kabballah Centre scented horseshit on a stick.
At that point, I just sighed, and hung up the phone.
The Kabballah Centre has created the perfect religion for someone like lost little Madge, beseiged by the guilt of a lifetime of debauchery and regret, consummed by hopes and dreams of salvation. She is the perfect mark for a con man like Phillip Berg, and the perfect victim of religious fraud. Combine her ego with her self serving attitude, and the end result is the self-proclaimed Ambassador for Judaism busy absorbing the light and becoming one with her retailer.
Phillip Berg and the Kabballah Centre are Jewish equivalent of the cult of Jim Bakker. They give Judaism a bad name.
I've heard it argued that Madge is a serving as a beacon, and that she's attracting people to Judaism, but, she's not. Madge is not Jewish, and what she practices is not Judaism, its merchandising. Drinking $10.00 bottles of Canadian tap water and wearing red string does not make you Jewish and it won't get you salvation. There's quite a bit more to it than that. She's just helping Phillip Berg sell some overpriced water and some red string.
Most of the time, Madonna flies beneath my radar, as I am completely uninterested in what she says and what she does. But Shimon Peres, he is a dangerous man, committed to the dismantling and eventual destruction of the Land of Israel, he is the enemy within.
Posted by LindaSoG at September 17, 2007 06:08 AM
Comments
I wonder what the next fad Madge will find. She's already got the interracial adoption, a Jewish cult, AIDS and global warming. That's a pretty full plate.
But then again if one is a celebretard of her magnitude one has to stay up on all the latest fads.
Besides, I thought she was raised a Roman Catholic. Is this just another way for her to rebel against the corrupt patriarchy of the Vatican?
I wish she'd just pull a Greta Garbo and sequester herself for the rest of her life and just leave us alone.
Posted by: TC at September 17, 2007 09:30 AM
Linda for those of us that have tremendous respect for the Jewish religion and for Jews as a people, Madonna is only a joke, and a sick one.
Mad Madonna is just that, mad in the sense of mentally nuts. Too bad she doesn't realize that being Jewish is not something a person signs up for at a card table outside a grocery store.
I agree with you about Madonna, I am not interested in what she is doing or even says for that matter. But when her 'causes' connect to a person that I have little respect for that DOES have power to effect millions of lives as Peres does, well then her using the Jewish religion is beyond words blasphemy and unforgivable.
Madonna is nothing on the scale of things, a spec of dust walking the earth. Peres is dangerous to his people and to his country. Her kissing up to him is more for her own sick ego then anything else. And his allowing it only makes him look the fool, which of course he is.......but a dangerous fool and that is what concerns me.
GREAT post Lindaa as always.
Posted by: Wild Thing at September 17, 2007 01:03 PM
Enlightening story Linda. Perhaps what you just related is why I don't go to church, I admit I'm not Jewish but the same thread sadly affects all faiths. My experience with the Jewish faith is confined to a few great sermons from a military chaplain who happened to be Jewish, when you are about to meet your maker we are all God's children. However it is a fact that my encounters with the Church has been less than happy, the behavior of the Fathers is sometimes more pronounced in their personal needs than that of the parishoner. They prey on the weak and weakminded, forgetting that they too are mortal. The Madonna's and Pere's of the world are the truly the enemies within because they are the idolized icons of failure leading others to doom.
Posted by: Jack at September 17, 2007 01:18 PM
There's one born every minute.
Good thing you caught on to the scheme; in your weakened state you could have been captured by the enemy. There is a parallel in there someplace, but it's early...
Dan Patterson
Arrogant Infidel
Posted by: Dan Patterson at September 18, 2007 06:26 AM
When I asked how much the appointment would cost... she said the strangest thing. "Bring your credit card."
Hmm...sounds like this bastardization of Judaism is just one tick away from Scientology...
Posted by: Nigel at September 18, 2007 10:58 PM
it is scientology, kabbalah center is just another variation on the various corporate cults, except replace e-meters with kabbalah water and the variations of EST with something sprinkled with Jewish terminology
Posted by: Sultan Knish at September 25, 2007 08:11 PM