The Nature of Man - Michael Jackson
It is the nature of man to need to worship something or someone. The media has worshiped Michael Jackson wall-to-wall since June 25th, and today was the "high holy day."I watched in extreme discomfort as person after person deified this extremely flawed emotionally arrested man-child who could sing and dance. They started with outright sacrilege. An entire choir sang a song written by Andrae Crouch during the '70s. It was a song written about Jesus Christ, THE King. I had to mute the television not to hear the rest of "Soon and very soon, we are going to see the king..." I apologized to my Lord for their ignorant sacrilege.
I am mindful there were 13 very young soldiers who have died since July 5th, and yet no one has deified them, much less mentioned them. They put their lives on the line for you and I. Michael Jackson put his own life on the line, denying his three children their father for the rest of their lives. He was self-destructive and self-indulgent, spending more than $500 Million on himself during his life. Yes, he gave, too, but not $500 Million!
He cost California - the state that is sliding into the ocean from unbelievable debt - another $4 Million for his funeral. Who is going to pay for the 6,000 police, some even pulled out of major crime departments, for their compulsory service to a man who destroyed himself?
And after all the over-kill hype by the media, when the service was ready to start, there were so many empty seats they started handing out FREE tickets just to fill the seats. It begs the question: Was it only the media who deified Michael Jackson? If so many people idolized him, why were there empty seats - lots of them - that had to hurriedly be filled?
The nature of man is the only reason Jesus came to earth, died for man's sins, and was resurrected. And no one but Jesus should be deified. Not JFK, not Elvis, not John Lennon...NO one.
I am sorry for Michael's kids. They will pay the price for his lifestyle. But it seems to me that everyone else connected to Michael has their hands out for what he accumulated, family included.
The two bright spots in the service were Brooke Shields as she spoke of their childhoods together, and Shaheen Jafargholi, a 12-year-old boy from the UK who had been a finalist on Britain's Got Talent.
I am sorry for those who operate out of the 'if a person is talented, then we excuse whatever they do because it's just their artistic nature.' That is an old lie that will continue to infiltrate the nature of man.
My Perspective (c) 2009 April Lorier







