In 1992, Sinead O'Connor tore a picture of Pope John Paul II in half during a performance on SNL in protest against generations of abuse toward children within the Catholic church.
In 1992, Sinead O'Connor tore a picture of Pope John Paul II in half during a performance on SNL in protest against generations of abuse toward children within the Catholic church.
And she was vilified for it. Ahead of her time.
She said "Fight the real enemy" while tearing up the pic.
She was ahead of her time and extremely strong. Doing the right thing was more important to her than money. RIP.
I remember that…
Joe pesci did a SNL special the following week after that where he threatened to beat the shit out of Sinead. Makes me lose much of the respect I had for the man.
Ireland got proper fucked by the church it seems. There was a “Behind the bastards” episode about it. Highly recommended if you want to get mad
Everywhere the Catholic church has ever been, it's consistently fucked everyone over. It is a leviathan of abuse and harmful politics.
Then she joined a cult based around venerating a pedophile prophet.
30 years later, after some very public mental health struggles. She was a humanitarian with a big heart and a lot of courage. Don't try a take away from a dead woman's accomplishments because of personal choices toward the end of her life.
That's one description, but in context it's misleading. If we wanted to talk about Christianity or Judaism we could look at the Bible and find shocking things there as well. And maybe we should. But that's a totally different discussion from bad things that the Catholic Church did in the 1900s.
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