Trad123, I think the answer is clear. You need to challenge Lady Gaga to a debate. I would actually pay to see that :dancing:
I never thought it was possible, but Lady Gaga makes Madonna almost seem like some kind of belle époque pinnacle of civilization.
The devil has given this bizarre woman -- who doesn't even seem to have a face, you never see two pictures of her that look the same -- some kind of apocalyptic power. Her whole "message" if she can be said to have one is to give up any and all pretense of self-control, to "let your freak flag fly," to wallow in the muck. The difference between her and Madonna is that Madonna presented herself as a kind of goddess, while Lady Gaga openly revels in self-hatred, and she seems to bring out the same self-hatred in her listeners. Though I've never watched one of her videos, just from seeing pictures of her you can see this depressed look in her eyes, and there is a joylessness about everything she does, like she is a sad clown who knows she's on the way to hell and simply has given in. Yet people have found some kind of honesty in her attitude! It is the true black hole of civilization, true nihilism.
I think she represents a dead society that has given up, the pinnacle of the Apostasy. She represents a people who have chosen to be lost and then claim that this fate was chosen for them, God-deniers, cowards, defiant sinners, whiners, people who make excuses, everything that is ugly about our era.
Very few know what it is to fight the devil anymore. When it comes to ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ inclinations or any kind of weakness, blaming your natural tendencies ( often the effects of original sin ) is a cop-out and a denial of the work that the Holy Ghost can do if we correspond with Him. In the sermon today at Queen of Angels, it was mentioned that St. Francis de Sales said he was born with a wretched, surly temper, but was able to overcome it to the point that he eventually became, well, a saint. He didn't make a rap album cursing out everyone. See the difference?