Stop the assisted killing bill

 Evening All

 

From Arthur O’Shaugnessy’s We are the Music Makers

 We are the music makers,

    And we are the dreamers of dreams,

Wandering by lone sea-breakers,

    And sitting by desolate streams; —

World-losers and world-forsakers,

    On whom the pale moon gleams:

Yet we are the movers and shakers

    Of the world for ever, it seems.

 Readers based in the UK will be aware that the question of euthanasia or assisted suicide is once more to be debated in Parliament, this time in a bill (Terminally Ill Adults End of Life Bill) introduced in the House of Commons by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater (Spen Valley, formerly Batley & Spen) and due for a full debate at second reading on 29^th November. This is a perennial question for parliamentary debate that has been introduced in one House or the other at some point in many of the parliaments of the last forty years or so. The difference this time is that a Commons majority is not improbable at second reading, and that the serving Prime Minister supports the Bill, so do make your objection to it known to your own member of Parliament and to Lady Hollins of the Catholic Union without delay.

 Readers in Scotland should contact MSPs concerning the separate bill under consideration at Holyrood, while those in Ireland must ask electoral candidates to oppose any bill arising from the Oireachtas Joint Committee report.

 To the best of my knowledge, the subject was first raised in the House of Lords by the Labour peer – it has only ever been raised by a member of that party although it, unlike the Liberal Democrats, has no official policy to support it, and its previous leaders have opposed it – Ted, Lord Willis who had the distinction of being recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as having been the world’s most prolific writer of scripts for television, most famously as the creator of Dixon of Dock Green which ran for over two decades at a rate of two or three series a year. He also did standalone screenplays and other serials such as Virgin of the Secret Service, Mrs. Thursday and Sergeant Cork, which is to say that he did a great deal to shape popular culture and the attitudes or political positions arising from it. How right the poet was who noted that it is the creative types of this world who are for ever its movers and shakers for the music they make and the dreams they dream shape the views by which the public opinion that drives political action is formed.

 What attitudes were shaped by the viewers of such a productive writer’s output; the programmes of a longstanding Communist who maintained Marxian positions even within the Labour Party after it obliged its members to choose between it and the CPGB, a campaigning atheist and promoter of euthanasia? To ask the question is to receive the answer: the attitudes of all those young enough to have had their world moved and shaken by him and his like.   You have experienced them often enough and you can see for yourself what the results are of the culture he did so much to shape over a writing career of half a century.

 

And therefore to-day is thrilling

With a past day's late fulfilling;

    And the multitudes are enlisted

    In the faith that their fathers resisted,

And, scorning the dream of to-morrow,

    Are bringing to pass, as they may,

In the world, for its joy or its sorrow,

    The dream that was scorned yesterday.

 One of the strange paradoxes of television is that the lurid modern police and crime dramas with their pornographic depictions of sexual activities and glamourised violence are far less problematic philosophically than their ‘cosy’ predecessors of Willis’ heyday in that the events they portray are clear violations of natural law; there is nothing in any way equivocal in the need to condemn serial killers and predatory rapists. On the other hand, the old-fashioned world of Sgt. Dixon was one in which events were far less dramatic, and their morality was rather more a matter of interpretation with the judgement upon them having been reserved to the makers of the relevant legalisation or else to the agent of the state i.e. the policeman. The morality depicted was then a positivist construct rather than an objective absolute measured against a definite and external God-given standard. That sense that right and wrong are essentially made so by human decisions lies at the heart of all the suicide bills not to mention the legislation of sundry other acts such as abortion or homosexual practices contrary to natural or divine law, and it is rooted in the old dream of a world without God, dancing to the tune of the satanic song Non Serviam, I will not serve.

 As St. Thomas notes, in so far as that human laws deflect from the law of nature, and therefore also from serving the common good, they are no laws at all but rather a perversion; so our personal morality must never be shaped by such legislation, instead these unlawful statutes must serve us as a constant reminder that the regime under which we live is one in which the disparity between legality and morality amounts to an active denial of the divine Kingship of Christ (cf Summa I-II:95:2).

 The entertainments we choose for ourselves and for our households shape our mental and moral habits, and those of our children, so if we do not choose wisely at first we might well find ourselves unable to judge with sufficient clarity to choose wisely in future and lay ourselves open to all manner of ungodly ideologies. It is, then, imperative to reject at the outset any thoughtless or habitual practice of imbibing entertainments of unknown provenance fired at us by broadcasters whose motives are equally hidden from us, and to seek safety in what is known to be good. “Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline; think on these things” (Phil. iv. 8). “Life and death, blessing and cursing” are set before us, “Choose therefore life, that both thou and thy seed may live” (Deut. xxx. 19). In all things choose Christ. 

Woke mind virus No 4

 

Woke advertising on steroids

Come Christmas, most big advertisers try to outdo each other to gain customers and sell their wares. There is nothing wrong with that, of course, and it shows how important Christmas and Christianity are to society worldwide. However, particularly in the West in recent years some of the biggest stores and brands have chosen to go down the 'inclusive' and even Woke route. These advertising campaigns tend to fail, sometimes spectacularly, as in the Case of Bud Light and the Dylan Mulvarney advert, which almost ruined the company, as their client base, white heterosexual males, rejected it in a big way.

            One would, therefore, expect that because Woke advertising fails, when your product is aimed at conservative white males, ad executives will learn their lesson, especially when in a very competitive market. The product I am referring to today is Jaguar Cars, a luxury brand with a strong motor racing heritage that mostly appeals to reasonably wealthy conservative males.

            The new Jaguar advert is as Woke as it can get; it has a group of androgynous-looking beings dressed in ultra-garish pop art/hout cauture garb who walk through a day-glow set and then sit on an odd-looking pink rock. All the actors in the advert look as miserable as hell. "Live Vivid" was the caption; what the ?#?@? are they talking about? "Copy Nothing," they say, when they copy everyone from Andy Warhol to Jasper Johns and every Pride parade that's ever been.  Oh, and there is no car in the advert!

            As Brits we should be able to take pride in our leading car brand, but this ad just makes you want to be sick. Perhaps pride is an ironic word here. This advert is just Woke and pretentious nonsense, that will probably backfire and do much damage to an already failing car company.

Woke Mind virus No 3

 

Doctors

The BBC, soaps, and social engineering

It's long been known that mainstream TV channels use soaps for social engineering, East Enders and Coronation Street being prime platforms for socially left producers and scriptwriters to brainwash as many of their viewers as they can get their hands on. They find soaps and drama particularly fertile ground for pushing the "Message" as it's become known by the more based commentators like yours truly. The "Message" is against pretty well everything that Western Christian society stands for.

            The BBC daytime soap Doctors is a prime example; the programme has been running since 2000 and has had over 4,496 episodes. It was filmed at Birmingham Pebble Mill Studios. Since its first appearance, it has proved popular with daytime viewers and has an average audience of 1.6 million. In recent years, this soap opera has been used to promote the "message" and to belittle any one of its characters with traditional family values. One Doctor, for example, is someone who is written into the script as a nasty, horrible bigot for standing up to all the cross-dressing, gender-bending, gay nonsense that happens in and around the practice. The doctor actually seems normal and sensible even though the script puts him down at every possible moment, is it just me with my traditional Christian outlook on everything that I identify with him? Throughout the series, clunky dialogue and poor acting are used in an attempt to put down this hapless doctor, but why is it so popular? Another question comes to mind, is it possible for a Christian, particularly a Catholic with traditional family values and faith, to work in the modern workplace. I have not actually seen an episode of this, but I rely solely on other commentators on the internet, such as Paul Joseph Watson. Here is a link to his commentary: Here: Here We Go Again. Watson is somewhat bombastic but usually talks sense, even if he comes over quite strongly sometimes.

Diversity and the Assisted Suicide Bill

 

The Main Stream Media and Diversity

The mainstream media supports diversity; we have black actresses in leading roles in remakes of Jane Austin period dramas, the Alphabet people are well represented in major soaps on TV, and Islam is, of course, also well represented and treated with respect, of course. However, devout faithful Christians, and especially Catholics, are not. If they are included in a modern production, it is only to show them as nasty bigots. The MSM will never report on the targeting of faithful Christians by groups like Stonewall, who, according to the interim report of the Commission of Inquiry into Discrimination Against Christians. It is ironic that the very religion (Islam) that is likely to attack Stonewall and all it stands for and left alone, does this not strike you as cowardly?  Here is a link to the Catholic Herald article Stonewall and LGBT activists coordinating harassment of UK Christians, report claims - Catholic Herald

 

Assisted Suicide Bill

Catholic virtually standing alone

There is a very dangerous bill being considered in both Ireland and the UK and virtually the same time. This could affect every living soul in the British Isles; like abortion, this must be opposed with all our might. Click here for another Catholic Herald Article Archbishop reminds Catholics that Ireland considering assisted suicide bill at same time as UK - Catholic Herald

Woke Mind Virus No. 2

 

Conclave

The Hollywood Ending

There is a new big-budget film with an "A" list cast that will soon be released, but is it just another big-budget bash at the Catholic Church from the mainstream media? So what is the film all about? Well, it seems to me that this is Hollywood's attempt to influence the choosing of the next pope. For, of course, all the teachings, morality, and theology of the Catholic Church are intrinsically evil! Here is the film's blurb from IMDb:

 

When Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading one of the world's most secretive and ancient events, selecting a new Pope, he finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could shake the very foundation of the Catholic Church.

 

The pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 Cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next 72 hours, one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure in the world.

High end production values

 The film is being tipped as an Oscar winner, and Ralph Fiennes as best actor. Critics are raving over it, with reviewers gushing that this film is so entertaining, so slick, and it's fantastic because it differentiates between "religion" and "faith". Modern reviews know all about faith and especially the Catholic faith, of course, it is a self-perpetuating conversation; the Church must change! And if Hollywood, that bastion of good taste and culture, can push the Church to a more loving, liberated, and progressive institution, more in tune with the modern world, it will do it. And Conclave, the latest secular incursion into the realms of the Church, is their latest attempt.

 

A stellar cast

No apology spoilers:

The film revolves around Fr Lawrence the Camerlengo (the Cardinal Chamberlain who runs the Conclave). Described as a thriller, the film consists mainly of a number of conversations and the jostling for power of the various cardinals. The writing is powerful. The cinematography and sets are fantastic, the production values are of the highest quality. This, by all accounts, is a gripping entertaining thriller. However, once again, we have the dichotomy that everything that is well made, well put together, and fantastic fun-filled entertainment is actually good; it's certainly not good for Christianity and therefore it is, in fact, evil. Will the sheer brilliance of this film do the damage to what's left of the traditional Catholic Church that the filmmakers hope and make them a load of money on the way?

            The battle is between a Traditionalist Latin Mass-saying Cardinal who is depicted as a nasty fundamentalist and the kinder liberal-minded Cardinals, who listen to nuns even, Sr Agnes, played by Isabella Rossellini, is given some "great" lines to undermine traditional male roles. However, the film appears to end with the liberals well on top with the election of a last-minute Cardinal creation by the last pope before he died, who is in fact, a biological woman. Traditional Catholic morals are then thrown out the window as the Church presses forward into a new liberated progressive wonderland.

Woke mind virus No 1

 Diversity and Film Funding

The Woke Mind Virus at Christmas

It is hard to make "straight films" these days, as modern Western Culture forbids it. Getting the funding, the cast, the crew, and the locations is all very difficult. You need to tick all the diversity boxes, even when making films or TV series based on traditional and classic novels such as those by Jane Austin. Your script must have characters that are homosexual, Trans, black, Asian, or other religions than Christianity, or funders at Netflix, Hollywood, Amazon, the BBC, Channel Four films, etc. will not look at it. It's as if the West's cultural leaders hate the past, its own culture, and are determined to destroy it. For instance, where is the film that tells the truth about the Crusades? A film that shows how the Crusades saved Christendom as well as being combined with heroic Crusaders and a plot that does not end up bowing to the Saracen. It doesn't exist; a combination of Muslim, Jewish, Protestant, and aesthetic sentiments will not allow it.

Diversity rules in modern film and TV production; I am always watching films; they are part of my life and work as well as "entertainment." I recently watched a film called Last Christmas. It was cleverly constructed to tick all the diversity boxes without doing too much to put its majority "straight" audience off. It was a romantic comedy between a man and a woman called Kate. So far, so good. However, everything that surrounds the main plot is diverse: immigrant parents, a successful lesbian lawyer sister, Kate working at an all-year-round Christmas shop as an elf shop assistant, the Chinese owner, and her boss, who is called Santa. It's careful not to touch on the true meaning of Christmas at all; it would not be diverse to do so. Christmas is, of course, the most significant religious festival on earth. Some Christmas Rom-com films try and get the diversity thing over quickly; films like Noel Diary where they start with the protagonist author signing books and a "Gay" couple come up to have a book signed in a short "funny" sequence, then it's all over the film can get down to what it's there for, to entertain those who like romantic comedies.

                This diversity in films and film production has been creeping in over the years. This thought brings to mind a film called The Holiday (2006) with Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, and Jack Black; this is a thoroughly entertaining film and in a different league from Last Christmas; however, it completely misses the true meaning of Christmas, and if there is a religious element to it, it's not Christian but Jewish, as we have Kate Winslet and some Hollywood movie people sit down to a Hanukkah meal complete with menorah, the Jewish candle stick for nine candles. Hollywood has let Christianity down big time over the years, of course, probably because so many Hollywood filmmakers are Jewish.

By Prayer Crusader St Philomena

Two Tier Media

 

The Western Media, the riots, and Christendom

Southport Riots

The rioting a couple of weeks ago was sickening; this is not the British way of doing things. We are still, at our core, a Christian country, I wonder do the rioters even know that they are wearing the cross of St George. However, could our Christian values be the very thing that people of a non-Christian background and culture take advantage of? We need to accept this, but we must understand what's happening. Perhaps? But we always need to proclaim the truth, for Jesus said, 'I am the way, the truth, and the light,' the Church also teaches there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church unless through the invincible ignorance of a person leading a good life outside the Catholic Church. Even Vatican II states this in the decree on the Church's Missionary activity, Ad Gentes Divinitue. The Catholic Church built Western Civilisation, often referred to as Christendom, although Christendom includes Western countries that became Protestant. However, Protestant countries were formed on the structures, laws, and foundations they had taken over from the Catholic Church.

            It is not racist to say it is basically from Europeans that all the great advances in Civilisation took place; not because we are a better people but because we are/were Christians! For Jesus Himself said, seek God and His justice and all these other things will be given you. Fr Thomas Crean O.P., in an interview given for our Christendom docudrama, stated that it was the Mass, in fact, the Latin Mass, that is at the heart of Western Civilisation, and Dr. Joseph Shaw, in an interview for our The "Reformation" series, stated that the Latin Mass is Western Civilisation's greatest artifact. Therefore, these two modern Catholic scholars are saying that it is from the Latin Mass that Western Civilisation sprung.

            However, the Western mainstream media will not even acknowledge that the Catholic Church had anything to do with the ascent of civilisation these days, even if Sir Kenneth Clark, the Scots/English art historian, and broadcaster virtually states this in his groundbreaking documentary Civilisation. Clark would convert to Catholicism before he died. The mainstream media do not ask the question, why do all these refugees from mainly Muslim countries want to come to the countries of the former Christendom? Could it be that, ultimately, Islam is a failed religion? Some will say (including Muslims themselves) that how can Islam be failing if they are growing at such a phenomenal rate, particularly in Western countries.  Well, the countries that they fled to because of a better standard of living and a more orderly civilization were based on Christianity. They leave behind countries in chaos, which seems indicative of the religion that governs those countries, Islam, which has failed.

            So I return to the main question of this post, why are Christians, or rather former Christians, wearing the flag of St George and rioting rather than trying to convert the new arrivals to the true religion of peace, Christianity? And why are Muslims who flee the chaos of Muslim countries not converting to the religion of their host country Christianity, from which all this prosperity and peace emanates? Could it be that the mainstream media are letting us down by not giving Christianity a fair hearing, and one further question do we have a two-tier media?