I somehow recoiled from the whole idea of watching the memorial set up for Michael Jackson in Staples Centre, Los Angeles, California.
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But for the sake of my wife who – more so than me (I fed myself with AC/DC & Iron Maiden which are bad in an altogether other category…) – grew up with this music we turned on the live broadcast. As my initial gut feeling was it wasn’t pretty to say the least, but first some background:
Apparently Michael had converted to being a Muslim and had a Jehovah’s Witness burial. Slightly puzzling one might say, with the added dubious reports of the man’s private life.
In the world’s history there has probably been only one funeral that eclipses Michael’s and that is the one held for Lady Diana. Funny enough both of them were flawed in the same way, in both occasions the people that were been buried were declared saints based on some of their good deeds totally neglecting their other actions. The Christian theology of human depravity and the need for salvation doesn’t surface in these sessions of glorifying the deceased.
