In 1992, for her second song as the musical guest during her second appearance on Saturday Night Live, Sinéad O’Connor sang Bob Marley’s “War” a cappella, and after singing the last line—“We have confidence in the victory of good over evil”—she tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II and yelled, “Fight the real enemy.” Her mother’s photo of Pope John Paul II, as it turns out. The photo Sinéad pulled off her mother’s bedroom wall on the day her mother died. She did this to protest child abuse within the Catholic church. However you feel about this—maybe especially if it upsets you—this was,
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