As far as I’m concerned, creating a cross like a disco ball, getting on it while wearing a crown of thorns and including it in a show featuring plenty of S&M references in the costumes and dance, *more* than qualifies as blasphemous. The cross, Jesus’ sacrifice for our sins, is at the heart of our faith. To use that symbol in this way is offensive, and this is certainly not the first time she’s done this kind of thing and taken heat for it – so it’s deliberate. She has said that “Crucifixes are sexy because there’s a naked man on them.” She’s not thinking of anything spiritual, she just wants the attention. She says it’s to encourage people to give to charities, especially AIDS charities. Obviously I’m not buying that, because there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of ways she could have done that in an inoffensive way. This is no accident, misunderstanding or faux pas – this is her entire career.