Remember how this Spring Congress “had” to ever-after bailout Hollywood, inter alia, so any amount they claim (especially for movies fitting government political agendas) moviegoers spent will at least LOOK plausible? Unless there’s a reason(s) they were so bankrupt they needed FedCash, which they STILL get despite claim today of “record profit year”.
Then there’s the other “permanently bailed”, broadcast and print media. They’re the ones who disbelieve anyone could be interested in anything they don’t report, or needs to have specifics to back up claims. Such media usually tell us there’s no global monoculture…the USA President du jour is very popular with foreign (e.g., Norwegian European Union types) officials who tell their people they need to emulate the USA economy/rights protocols, while our President tells us we need less rights, central Fed control of all life, less commerce, even more houses, less citizen input (only “spam” questions them, right?), and so on as “appeasement” to foreign officials to keep our officials popular with them…and in letting officials alone reaping “bounty” after “bounty” ourselves like we ALWAYS do “but for racism” and other gender/ethnicity/familial abuse polemic rodomontades. Just ask Dr. Phil how crazy you are to ask questions, think “monoculture”, or wonder why Obama and pals never walk their own nations’ streets to “prove” turnout popularity with what some term mere commoners, sub humanity, and surplusage.
This pretty much leaves us with media which only reports on what makes officials look good, or to inveigh across broad psychological swaths against critics when the masters they’re lap dogs to get peevish, paranoid or irked.
Consider today’s “USA Today” front page story “Mixing Their Religions”. It represents an attack on the Catholic Church on circular logic that because many superstitious and non-Christian spiritualities exist in opposition to or unconcern with Catholicism, Catholicism is both dying and offensive and “should see the writing on the wall” (or at least have its members be thought of as superstitious).
Three attacks on Catholicism (and thus Christianity) are therein made:
1. Inveigh that longtime Catholics of every stripe are against anybody not spiritual as they are, hoping to keep folks away from Church and invite animosity to Catholics (even Obama’s staff said they’d call Priests gay who oppose them);
2. Inveigh that people of other spirituality do not give up their beliefs when “pretending” to be converted to Catholicism, so even bin Laden (on Obama-Pakistan cash?) or other folks the already socially phobic fear might be Catholics (another stay-away cloy); and
3. The entire Roman Catholic Church and the Gospels it’s founded upon are superstitions, so any Christian is a mindless boob puppeteered by the Pope or even Protestant clergy in mere political opposition to all-powerful officials and personal comforts they seek.
In sum, as a cat’s paw to raw power, all “USA Today” did through its story is reflect Communist China’s policy of government installing Catholic clergy/bishops of its own, calling ANY other spirituality other than government’s “superstition” and political, and being upset so many worldwide continue to convert to Vatican theology.
As a Christmas present for the personal comforts of every USA official, USA Today was just helping Obama et al stay immensely popular with foreign leaders emulating each other on what “properly” is and isn’t spirituality…then setting spiritualities against each other, or attempting to de-energize Christians, or both.
This is why, on International Human Rights Day, I laugh at yet pray for USA Today, and wish dignity, peace, fellowship, and the blessings of God to ALL people of goodwill on earth.
