Vanity Fair’s most recent photo shoot of Madonna proves once again that the disparagement of Christianity and Christian symbolism is a welcome opportunity to shock and attract attention.
In the February 2023 ‘Icon Issue’ of Vanity Fair, Madonna poses for the fashion photography duo, Luigi and Iango, blatantly copying Christian imagery in a demeaning way. On the cover, the pop star poses as the Catholic ‘Mother of Seven Sorrows;’ inside, the photographs present her unabashedly mimicking Christian themes. One image is a parody of Christ’s Last Supper: it displays her at a dinner table surrounded by women greedily grabbing food, while another half-naked female poses erotically. In another photo, Madonna stands tall in a regal Christ-like robe, with rosaries dangling from her body, wearing the parody of a crown of thorns, whilst women worship her from below.
The travesty knows no end: in yet another photo, Madonna is wearing a white ‘wedding’ dress adorned with a skeleton formed by baby body parts and doll heads, topped by a hat fashioned from human eyes. At her waist is a uterus made from baby faces. She is flanked by two women, one dressed in red and the other in white, both accessorized with a combination of ritualistic and glamorous detail, and glitzy gimp masks to complete the look. The whole room is scattered with baby parts.
However offensive this stunt may be, Madonna, who arguably has based her whole career—starting with her name—on provocative imagery and mocking Catholicism, is but the tip of the iceberg. In the recent past, Balenciaga featured BDSM symbolism in an advertising campaign with child models.
The anti-Christian, over-sexualized, and occult sentiment already has deep roots in the entertainment industry. The occult roots of the entertainment industry reach deeply: Marina Abramovic, a prominent influencer among political and fashion elites, considered to be the ‘grandmother of performance art,’ regularly presents herself in occult, if not overtly satanic, art. In an issue of Vogue Ukraine, Marina poses holding a flayed goat’s head. In another picture, she stands in front of a white-covered table with a woman lying on it, her entrails exposed in a ritual position.
Abramovic considers herself a mentor to stars, including Lady Gaga and Jay-Z, in her occult arts. In a leaked email to John Podesta (a former White House chief of staff to Bill Clinton) from 2015, Abramovic invited him to a session of ‘spirit cooking,’ a ritual involving menstrual blood, breast milk, urine, and sperm. This ritual originally dates back to the ‘Religion of Thelema,’—religion of the will—founded by the infamous satanist, Aleister Crowley.
Occult, even satanic, symbolism is widespread in the music industry as well. Many mainstream music performances (excluding Black Metal, which is explicitly defined by satanic worship), include gratuitous allusions to cannibalism, ritual sacrifice, demonic possession, or satanic worship. In Rapper Lil Nas X’s music video, he descends into hell after a fall from grace in the Garden of Eden and performs a homosexual lap dance on satan before he assumes the throne of the underworld himself. The following videos, “LA Devotee” by Panic! At the Disco; Lil Uzi Vert’s “XO Tour Llif3;” Young Thug’s “Up;” and Shenseea’s “Run Run” all further exemplify this trend.
Even public events, such as the MTV Video Music Awards, the wedding of artist and model Ivy Getty, and the opening of the Gotthard tunnel feature blatantly occult symbolism through their costumes and themes.
Photographs, music videos, and public events all provide occasions for occultism, featuring similar elements: demonic images—largely taken from Christian art—gory and grotesque deformations of the human body, babies, baby parts, or children, and always with a sexual slant.
The occult-saturated entertainment industry has managed to convince ‘consumers’ that these symbols remain innocuous, yet they strive to include them in the most bizarre ways. Singers and artists hide behind the cliché, “it’s only art.” Many consumers are already so jaded, they do not even realize how extreme the images presented to them are. At best, grotesque and repulsive, at worst, seductive and imitable, over-sexualized depictions bombard the eyes and minds of young children. Just as ideologies and agendas are injected into all forms of film and streaming shows, these occult features further saturate mainstream entertainment.
As for Madonna, another scandal is brewing. As Die Junge Freiheit reports, the Africa based children’s charity, Raising Malawi, which she founded, may have to justify some of its practices. The Ethiopian World Federation (EWF), a non-profit organization, has called on Malawi’s president, Lazarus Chakwera, to investigate allegations against Madonna’s supposedly charitable organization, to check its integrity, and to limit its influence in Malawi. The allegations include child trafficking, sexual exploitation, coercion, fraud, and abuse of power. Yet another photo session, which showed Madonna, age 64, posed with her 17-year-old adopted son, David Banda, sparked controversy in this regard, due to its overtly luring and sexual composition.
Madonna’s Photo Shoot Reveals Deep Occult Roots of the Entertainment Industry
Vanity Fair’s most recent photo shoot of Madonna proves once again that the disparagement of Christianity and Christian symbolism is a welcome opportunity to shock and attract attention.
In the February 2023 ‘Icon Issue’ of Vanity Fair, Madonna poses for the fashion photography duo, Luigi and Iango, blatantly copying Christian imagery in a demeaning way. On the cover, the pop star poses as the Catholic ‘Mother of Seven Sorrows;’ inside, the photographs present her unabashedly mimicking Christian themes. One image is a parody of Christ’s Last Supper: it displays her at a dinner table surrounded by women greedily grabbing food, while another half-naked female poses erotically. In another photo, Madonna stands tall in a regal Christ-like robe, with rosaries dangling from her body, wearing the parody of a crown of thorns, whilst women worship her from below.
The travesty knows no end: in yet another photo, Madonna is wearing a white ‘wedding’ dress adorned with a skeleton formed by baby body parts and doll heads, topped by a hat fashioned from human eyes. At her waist is a uterus made from baby faces. She is flanked by two women, one dressed in red and the other in white, both accessorized with a combination of ritualistic and glamorous detail, and glitzy gimp masks to complete the look. The whole room is scattered with baby parts.
However offensive this stunt may be, Madonna, who arguably has based her whole career—starting with her name—on provocative imagery and mocking Catholicism, is but the tip of the iceberg. In the recent past, Balenciaga featured BDSM symbolism in an advertising campaign with child models.
The anti-Christian, over-sexualized, and occult sentiment already has deep roots in the entertainment industry. The occult roots of the entertainment industry reach deeply: Marina Abramovic, a prominent influencer among political and fashion elites, considered to be the ‘grandmother of performance art,’ regularly presents herself in occult, if not overtly satanic, art. In an issue of Vogue Ukraine, Marina poses holding a flayed goat’s head. In another picture, she stands in front of a white-covered table with a woman lying on it, her entrails exposed in a ritual position.
Abramovic considers herself a mentor to stars, including Lady Gaga and Jay-Z, in her occult arts. In a leaked email to John Podesta (a former White House chief of staff to Bill Clinton) from 2015, Abramovic invited him to a session of ‘spirit cooking,’ a ritual involving menstrual blood, breast milk, urine, and sperm. This ritual originally dates back to the ‘Religion of Thelema,’—religion of the will—founded by the infamous satanist, Aleister Crowley.
Occult, even satanic, symbolism is widespread in the music industry as well. Many mainstream music performances (excluding Black Metal, which is explicitly defined by satanic worship), include gratuitous allusions to cannibalism, ritual sacrifice, demonic possession, or satanic worship. In Rapper Lil Nas X’s music video, he descends into hell after a fall from grace in the Garden of Eden and performs a homosexual lap dance on satan before he assumes the throne of the underworld himself. The following videos, “LA Devotee” by Panic! At the Disco; Lil Uzi Vert’s “XO Tour Llif3;” Young Thug’s “Up;” and Shenseea’s “Run Run” all further exemplify this trend.
Even public events, such as the MTV Video Music Awards, the wedding of artist and model Ivy Getty, and the opening of the Gotthard tunnel feature blatantly occult symbolism through their costumes and themes.
Photographs, music videos, and public events all provide occasions for occultism, featuring similar elements: demonic images—largely taken from Christian art—gory and grotesque deformations of the human body, babies, baby parts, or children, and always with a sexual slant.
The occult-saturated entertainment industry has managed to convince ‘consumers’ that these symbols remain innocuous, yet they strive to include them in the most bizarre ways. Singers and artists hide behind the cliché, “it’s only art.” Many consumers are already so jaded, they do not even realize how extreme the images presented to them are. At best, grotesque and repulsive, at worst, seductive and imitable, over-sexualized depictions bombard the eyes and minds of young children. Just as ideologies and agendas are injected into all forms of film and streaming shows, these occult features further saturate mainstream entertainment.
As for Madonna, another scandal is brewing. As Die Junge Freiheit reports, the Africa based children’s charity, Raising Malawi, which she founded, may have to justify some of its practices. The Ethiopian World Federation (EWF), a non-profit organization, has called on Malawi’s president, Lazarus Chakwera, to investigate allegations against Madonna’s supposedly charitable organization, to check its integrity, and to limit its influence in Malawi. The allegations include child trafficking, sexual exploitation, coercion, fraud, and abuse of power. Yet another photo session, which showed Madonna, age 64, posed with her 17-year-old adopted son, David Banda, sparked controversy in this regard, due to its overtly luring and sexual composition.
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