Seems that pop singer Madonna is to marry her toy boy called Jesus. As a piece of news it is so inconsequential as to be rubbish but it was so nauseating in its perversion that I was disturbed for the rest of the day. After all Madonna was the mother of Jesus and, even though I am not a christian,I am shocked at the symbolic sacrilege. If we believe in God we have to believe that he cannot possibly be insulted. No mud can stick to Him, He cannot be beaten and He is too great to be affected by any abuse. When any religion is insulted it is not God who cares but the believers who are insulted. For instance a dead man does not feel any pain, joy or insult so if a dead man is insulted deliberately it is his children who are being targeted. A while ago a German company put pictures of the Hindu God Ganesha on footware. The company and its directors are temporary and disposable but Ganesha is forever and hence could not care but this was a deliberate and gratuitous insult to all Hindus. In a civilised country people have the freedom to be atheist and have the guarantee of the right to free speech but do they have the right to cause anguish by deliberate humiliation?