For my first entry, I would like to comment on the most anticipated single from Mother Monster, Lady Gaga entitled "Judas". Here is the link to the clip video: http://youtu.be/wagn8Wrmzuc
In the video Gaga portrays Jesus' disciple Mary Magdalene while wearing a leather jacket and headband. Somehow, Fumes Bill Donahue, president of The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, in a statement: "This is a stunt... Lady Gaga tries to continue to shock Catholics and Christians in general: she dresses as a nun... she swallows the rosary. She has now morphed into a caricature of herself. She is trying to rip off Christian idolatry to shore up her talentless, mundane and boring performances. Another ex-Catholic whose head is turned around... Is this the only way to jet up her performance? This isn't random, we are getting closer to Holy Week and Easter."
Anyway, who is Judas? And why is so controversial? Based on my research on the Internet,
"Judas Iscariot (Hebrew: יהודה איש־קריות, Yehuda, Yəhûḏāh ʾΚ-qəriyyôṯ) was, according to the New Testament, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus and betrayed Jesus into the hands of the chief priests."
Wikipedia, the free enclyopedia
- Judas is mentioned in the synoptic gospels, the Gospel of John and at the beginning of Acts of the Apostles.
- Mark states that the chief priests were looking for a sly way to arrest Jesus. They decided not to do so during the feast since they were afraid that people would riot; instead, they chose the night before the feast to arrest him. In the Gospel of Luke, Satan enters Judas at this time.
Luke 22:3
- According to the account in the Gospel of John, Judas carried the disciples' money bag. He betrayed Jesus for a bribe of "thirty pieces of silver" by identifying him with a kiss — "the kiss of Judas" — to arresting soldiers of the High Priest Caiaphas, who then turned Jesus over to Pontius Pilate's soldiers.
John 12:6
Matthew 26:14
And again, Lady Gaga shocks the world with her new single, "Judas". For me, she tries to tell that despite Jesus is the good one, she keeps coming back for Judas which is the bad one. This situation happened many times in our life. We've been given once a worthy opportunity but yet we wasted it. We never appreciate our parent when they live but when they died, there's no use to cry over a spilt milk.
