Lady Gaga Concert in Manila

So, the Lady Gaga Concerts have come and gone.

All the noise generated against the concerts have fallen into silence.  Not quite unusual and expected.

Days before the concert began, many church groups spoke against the rocker.  Text messages called for her deportation.  Prayer rallies called for her damnation.  I even remember a rather outspoken bishop from down south calling Lady Gaga demon possessed, and even if given the opportunity to talk to her, would rather keep a distance, because, as he says he 'does not talk to demons.'  A modern-day pharisee indeed.

Personally,  I am not a fan of Lady Gaga and I do not actually know any of her tunes, except for 'Bad Romance' only because it has been used in production numbers on TV.

I, however, consider it 'pa-epal' for some church moralists to ask that she be 'kicked-out' and that reparation be done at parish churches to 'ask for God's mercy, that His wrath would not fall on us' due to the blasphemes the rocker made.  Please!  There are more blasphemous things being done everywhere, with or without Gaga.  Way back in the 80s, we had Madonna and Cyndi Lauper.  Did God destroy the world?  Hello!  I am now a in my mid-40s, feeling the effects of aging, but still alive. 

Ang mahirap eh, those hypocritical moralists so good in damning others as demons and seeing God in man's own image, yet they fail to see the scandal of sin that lies within themselves.

Pa-epal talaga.