"We're all responsible ..."

Nicolas Bellord said...

What is the nature of the Love Island programme? Does it not encourage promiscuity amongst its participants and voyeurism amongst those who watch it? Is this not the third suicide amongst its participants? What does that suggest?

17 February, 2020 

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william arthurs said...

I suspect there is a Nostalgic School of Sermonising in which the only grist permitted is a harking back to past decades when we were bound together as a Christian nation by the shared experience of telly watching. Over half the population saw the Morecambe & Wise Christmas Special in 1976 -- you know, the one where Angela Rippon danced. The following Sunday, the vicar mentioned Angela Rippon's legs in his sermon. What about MY legs? I thought to myself, irritably. They are as good as hers?

It gets better though. The Crown's first series began in November 2016. I went to a carol service in mid-December. In his sermon, the vicar mentioned that he had been watching this programme. Jesus Christ was then likened to Lord Mountbatten. How and why? "Because they both died for us." There must also have been some television programme about the Space Race, because Jesus was next likened to Neil Armstrong. "Armstrong went to the Moon, and brought back some Moon-rock so we on Earth could see what the Moon was like. And similarly Jesus went to God, and brought back a little bit of God so we could see what God was like. Now I admit that the parallel is neither exact, nor even, indeed, a very good one, but all the same..." Funny how I can recall his exact words.

17 February, 2020 

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GOR said...

Some time ago there was a splendid article (in The Telegraph, I think) about what the writer termed “The Grief Caravan”. He noted the propensity of people to want to share in the experience with flowers, dolls, teddy bears, etc. They wax eloquent about the deceased and the tragedy it was for man- or womankind that he or she passed on so soon.

But the sentiments are built on sand and are fleeting. As soon as the next ‘celebrity’ dies the caravan moves on there and the process is repeated. And so it continues ad nauseum.

Truly there is little appreciation for life today, and Who provides and sustains it. Instead of the avalanche of ‘memorials’ placed at the site of the demise, people should be encouraged to pray for his/her soul and priests and hierarchy should be assiduous in reminding them so. “The paths of glory lead but to the grave”.

17 February, 2020 

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Anita Moore said...

Years ago, I had a client tell me that she figured on killing herself at some undetermined point in the future. I told her that if she murdered herself, she would go to hell; that there really is a hell; and that its sufferings far exceed those of this life and are without end. She seemed stunned. I doubt if anybody ever told her that before. She said she would not kill herself after all. I hope she meant it.

The point is, yes, in an age of “do whatever is right for you,” when suicide and euthanasia are sold as solutions to problems, people absolutely need to hear that suicide is self-murder and earns damnation. You might be the first person ever to tell them that.

17 February, 2020 

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DeHereticoComburendo said...

It seems to be a modern phenomenon (or does it hark back to the witch-hunts of earlier centuries?) that when something like this happens - the early death of some 'beautiful soul', we collectively must find someone to blame. It just has to be someone's fault. So we're told that it's all our fault; or it's the fault of the haters on social media. It's the TV company who failed in their duty of care. It's the fault of the DPP who were going to prosecute her for allegedly attacking her boyfriend. Princess Diana's death was down to the horrible Royal Family, especially the Queen (who's now everybody's heroine). And when all else fails, let's have a public inquiry (Hillsborough, Grenfell, Bloody Sunday, etc, even if decades have passed since the event). Modern civilisation really can be incredibly fatuous. It sells newspapers I guess.

17 February, 2020 

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Amateur Brain Surgeon said...

Dear Father. Aren't we still supposed to be mourning the death of Saint Kobe Bryant?

Well, that's what ABS gets for not watching TV.

Isn't it interesting how the secular state (TV is always part of the establishment) has it Holy Days we are supposed to honor - Martin Luther King Day - how the secular state has its own sacred songs we are supposed to memorise so we can stand and all sing together - Star Spangled Banner - how the secular state has its own Commandments - Thou shalt not call anyone a sodomite, Honor our military, Thou shalt not be a white and defend your racial heritage - etc etc.

The fewer men know who these sad people are the better off the world would be.

Over 150,000 souls die daily and we let the media tell us who we should mourn?

Lord have mercy...

17 February, 2020