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‘Maze Magic’ promotes Christianity?
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What on earth is wrong with the world we live in today?
A couple of weeks ago I attended the Maze Magic show in the Special Events Center in the Student Union Building. The show started out fantastically – it was a great magic show.
The two magicians on stage captivated the audience with ease, performing tricks that seemed impossible.
About an hour into the show, however, the two magicians started giving a speech about what it means to be a good person and a good society.
The magicians called a short intermission to allow for anyone in the audience who might be offended by their religious views to leave, but used the bait of another magic trick to keep people there.
The show started again and only a few people had left.
The first of the two to speak held up pictures of his daughter explaining daughters are meant to look like that.
Then, the magician held up a photograph of Lindsay Lohan posing in a provocative outfit on the cover of a popular magazine.
He explained, in this society, that is what daughters turn into.
To back himself up, he then held up a photograph of Lindsay Lohan when she was a young, innocent actress.
He flipped through the stack of photographs underneath, each of a female celebrity wearing a provocative outfit on the covers of different popular magazines.
The other magician then took to the stage and gave a speech about how a fellow college football player ended up in jail because of his bad life decisions.
What surprised me through all of this was that the people in the audience truly seemed to consider the magician’s words as important facts, almost as though they were brainwashed.
There were a good number of people, however, that did get up and bolt during the speech.
I’m not saying whether I agree or disagree with the Christian magicians’ opinions.
However, I think it is wrong for the magicians to draw such a large audience under the illusion of a magic show to promote Christianity.
Why, I must ask, does Boise State University allow for a night of entertainment plugged full of Christianity?
Boise State Campus Crusade (commonly known as BSUCRU) sponsored the event.
Whether BSUCRU intentionally hid the Christianity plug from the masses that swarmed outside the SPEC or not, none of my friends or I knew that the event was going to promote Christianity.
The magicians had already captivated the minds and hearts of the SPEC audience through their magic tricks, which made their promotion of Christianity a morally incorrect aspect of the show.
The magicians’ ultimate point was to persuade that society and its institutions deceive everyone.
The irony is that the SPEC audience, Boise State University and anyone else in the world they give this presentation to have been deceived by the show itself.
Christian organizations need to stop deceiving people into attending Christian events.
I believe it is the university’s responsibility to correctly advertise for these types of shows.
When I’m planning on seeing a magic show, I better see a magic show.
MATTHEW BOYLE
Asst. Culture Editor