Happy New Year 2022

I usually don't post about positive stuff. Its all about covid memes and negative reviews of children media. But today I wanted to make a happy post and desire all of my followers a new year full of benedictions. 

2022 will probably be harder than 2021, but we can benefit spiritually from it and that's something to rejoice about. May Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary be with you forever, protect you from evil and fill you with Graces and Blessings.

I provide some quotes from The Glories of Mary, a book I recommend a lot for those times when you are feeling hopeless, when the waves of hell seem to overcome you and your sins seem to drown you. The whole book can be found by clicking here. 

"I am the Queen of Heaven and the Mother of Mercy; I am the joy of the just, and the door of mercy through which sinners are brought to God. There is no sinner on earth so accursed as to be deprived of my mercy... No on is so cast off by God that he will not return to him, and enjoy his mercy, if he invokes my aid"

"God has made thee so rich that thou mightest assit the poor, and has constituted thee Queen of mercy in order that thou mightest relieve the miserable."

"As she coopereated by her love in the birth of the faithful to the life of grace, she became the spiritual Mother of all who are members of the one Head, Christ Jesus" (St Augustine, the Virginitate)

"He that is a little one, let him turn to me" (Prov. ix. 4.)

"I am come that they may have life" (John X. 10)

 

Millstones on the Road XIV: Into The Unknown: Infantile Paganism

In 2019, the movie "Pachamama" made it's appareance in Netflix. Appart from being anti-colonialist trauma based mind control, Pachamama is the most pagan movie yet made. Two small indians need to rescue their golden-egg pachamama idol from conquerors or everything will face extinction. Other films have pagan ideas interwined into important plot points, and albeit they are more subtle, it is good to review them.  

Some may claim that the messages are actually offensive to the mentality of the pagans (cultural appropiation). However, this films do give paganism a nicer look. Catholics believe pagan gods are literally devils, but Hollywood makes them look like yet another harmless cartoon character. This means that even if these films don't promote the worship or respect to pagan idols, they do teach that they are just cool myths that gave meaning to the lives of people and you can use in your own secular story telling, not devils who deceived people for Hell's sake. 

Another pagan stuff common in films is pantheism, the belief that God is one with the creatures He made, or that there is some sort of divine energy flowing withing everything. Plus, the popularity of esoteric beliefs (kabbalah, gnosticism, teosophy) means some films will even be full of actual occultism. 

Movies With Blatant Pagan Messages: 

Kung Fu Panda

I was surprised when I noticed how much of the film was based around real Kung Fu. While not intrinsically evil as a sport, the spirituality found in Kung Fu is essentially buddhist 

It was made by Bodhidarma, a budhist monk born in India who later travelled to China. He taught Kung Fu as a form of moving meditation to the Shaolin monks. Various correlations between pagan chinese ideas and Kung Fu Panda are found. For Example: 

1) Remember that I said Po, albeit a soyboyic, immature and obese bear, was somehow more powerfull than the Furious Five? Kung Fu Panda 3 explains why. 

In the franchise Pandas have a special connection to Qi, a traditional chinese energy that dwells within living beings, and since Po is a panda, his connection to Qi allows him to be a champion without needing to lose weight. In the movie, Po bonds with the Qi of an ancient Warrior who was a dragon, and kills his enemy by overwhelming him with energy. 

While the evil bull Kai absorbs the Qi of various Kung Fu masters to turn them into jade - zombies, Pandas use Chi energy to heal each other, and at the end, they channel it to help Po destroy the power hungry bovine. 

2) Various references to the taoist Ying-Yang are found. In the second, a fortune reader (!) predicts the evil peacock Sheng will be defeated by "white and black" refering to a panda, as the Ying-Yang appears from her pot:

The idea of fate is also recurrent on this film

The same idea is implyed in the third. Evil is represented with green and good with gold. The warrior Oogway tells Po that pandas healed him with Qi in the past, and that his black-and-white colour reminded him of the ying-yang the first time he saw him. The ying-yang appears at the end as Po unleashes the full power of the dragon warrior.  

Po later receives the Ying-Yang Staff from Oogway, and uses it to transport himself back to our world from the "spirit realm"

3) Bodhidarma allegedly invented various Kung Fu moves by observing animals. This tradition was later added in the movie with the characters Monkey, Tigress, Viper, Mantis and Stork, who represent differnt styles of Kung Fu. The Kung Fu Teacher itself is called Sifu, the traditional name for a Kung Fu teacher. Po's fighting style is the Kung Fu bear technique. 

Avatar: The Last Airbender an its Spin-Off, Legend of Korra

The iconic Nickelodeon show is full of pagan fluff. 

Its setting is a world in which 4 different nations have special contact with the 4 elements: water, fire, earth and air. Some of the civilians are able to "bend" and manipulate such elements at will. The producers inspired this fictional movements on real martial arts like Kung Fu and Tai Chi. 

 

This is how the main characters "bend" their elements. 

Avatar tells the story of a young boy, one Aang, who is the "avatar", the reincarnation of a being that can bend all four elements. Aang must stop the evil fire nation king from destroying all the others. 

Moana and Pocahontas

Moana is literally about an "elected" young girl who travels with a demi-god to retrieve the heart of Te-Fiti, some sort of earth godess. And in the Toxic Environmentalism post, we mentioned why Pocahontas was pantheist. 

Avatar (Film)

Avatar tells the story of Jake Sully, a quadriplegic marine that is sent to the moon of Pandora to research the natives of the place, the Nav'i Aliens, in order to peacefully retire them from the area to mine a precious metal. He is given a Nav'i body he can control in order to learn from them as an insider. Eventually he opens himself up to the culture and traditions of the natives and helps them to defend their godess, a three, from the marines who want to destroy it all. 

Avatar is pretty full of pagan imagery as well as occultic imagery. Jake Sully learns to dominate and ride a red dragon named Toruk, who is some sort of divinity for the Nav'i. Only 5 people have been able to ride it. The name "avatar" itself is a sanscrit therm; it is used to refer to shiva's incarnations, the hindu version of the messias. This suggests that Jake Sully is some sort of incarnation of a divine being. He is betrayed and is about to be sacrificed by the Nav'i, but he is able to escape after being rescued - similar to Jesus, but not the same. 

The Nav'i have a braid that allows them to connect to the three godess, this braid has been linked to the third eye of occult enlightenment. Jake Sully needs to enlighten himself to the traditions of the aliens, and eventually betrays his own race and unites all tribes against the human menace. 

Movies in Which Pagan Stuff is Found in the Film 

This movies, while not intrinsically pagan so to speak, (they don't really, to my eyes, tell me to became a pagan) don't really show an opposition to paganism per se, and some of its elements are represented like if nothing happened.

 The Princess and The Frog

In the Princess and The Frog, the villain is a voodoo magician, but so is the benevolent witch that helps Tania and Naveen.

I mean, seriously, voodoo practices ritual demonic posession, but Mama Odie gets a pass because she sings a nice song? 

Percy Jackson 

Written by Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson tells the story of a demigod, one Perseus Jakcson (aka, Percy) born of the god Poseidon an a human. Artemis Fowl is about a boy

It's basically fan fiction with greek mythology situated in a  modern context. I don't expect Zeus to fulminate them for daring to make fan fiction with him. What I do expect is that it makes greek and roman crappy and deviant poetry look harmless. 

Frozen 2

Similarly to "The Last Airbender", Elsa needs to join the 4 spirits of nature with humans. The spirits have abandoned humanity because there was a war between the Arendellians and the Northuldra (actually, it should read Norwegains and Sami, a scandinavian tribe). So now Elsa is the "fifth spirit" that will "unite the clans". 

The queen's travel is rather messianic, she needs to domate the 4 elements and visit a glacier called Atohallan, which serves as some sort of Historical Archive for the magical Frozen world. Atohallan stores all knowledge, it is a place were "all is found". There, Elsa discovers that her grandfather wanted to genocide the Northuldra people because they had access to magic: he says magic prevents people from following the mandates of a King. The film has a strong imagery for finding hidden truth, a common gnostic trope, as the knowledge is achieved through magical practices. 

Elsa answers that trouble raises from fear, not from magic. She later frozes after dwelling too deeply in Atohallan (so much for "cold never bothered me"), but when Ana destroys a damm built by the Arendellians she comes back from the dead. Is Elsa playing the "I-Am-Jesus" game like Anakin and Aslan? Yes, she is. 

Gnosticism? The Following Franchises and Movies let you think a lot: 

It's easier to fall for gnosticism than for paganism. While paganism is a collection of stupid myths and fables people told to each other in the past, and pagan idols are not all-mighty or even uncreated, and have not retaliated for not being worshipped in thousands of years, gnosticism offers smarter, more subtle and cooler religious experience. The following films and franchises are suspect or guilty of gnosticism: 

A Series of Unfortunate Events 

Written by Lemony Snicket, the last books have strong gnostic imagery. It tells the story of three children: Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire who are very smart but always face unfortunate events, as their evil uncle Count Olaf hunts them like a vociferous wolf. 

In one of the books, they find an island ruled by a white-bearded cult leader named Ishmael, a pathethic figure obsessed with preventing his followers from eating certain fruit.The Baudelaires eventually learn that Ishmael has actually devoured the fruit to save himself from a plague that would kill the other cult followers. Sound familiar? Gnostics believe God was bad because he refused to let Adam and Eve consume the forbidden fruit, since it was actually harmless and would grant them knowledge. 

X-Men: Apocalypse 

It tells the story of a mutant, En Sabar Nuh (Apocalypse) who transfers his souls to other mutant bodies. He eventually has himself worshipped by various civilizations, and the movie characters heavily imply that all religions were inspired by this man. 

It seems that Apocalypse was inspired on the gnostic demiurg, a god who is creator but since his creation is evil, is evil because he imprisons souls in creation. Apocalypse wants to destroy humanity because he thinks they are wasting their time in technology; this reminds us of the demiurg chosing to hide knowledge from humans. Different quotes from the film (eg; when Charles Xavier is told that the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse were the inspiration for the Revelation) suggest En Sabar Nuh is God Himself. 

In general, the Marvel, DC and X-Men franchises are full of pagan idols as characters. 

The Golden Compass Trilogy 

Anti-Theist Phillip Pullmann hates God so much, that he says "even if He existed, we would have to kill him". He inserts his propaganda in the trilogy of "The Golden Compass", full of caricatures of cristianity. The last book, titled "The Subtle Knife", his "Lord Azriel" will destroy God using the only weapon that "can kill him" - the subtle knife. Now pardon me, but I don't think this books are atheistic. I believe they are gnostic. There are two gods, one good, one bad, and to this gnostic stuff Pullmann chooses to add the destruction of one of them. 

9 (Nine)

The bearer of ligth will come to cinema in 9-9-09 

Nine is a film based on a short by Shane Acker. Nine is a very disturbing, creepy film, but the messages are so explicit that I thought it would be good to write about it. 

A scientist creates machines that are able to create other machines from scrap. However, they turn against humans and eventually exterminate all living beings on earth. The creator of such machines passed 9 aspects of his human soul to 9 ragdolls. This is an alchemical practice known as the homonculi, creating small beings from scrap. The jewish Talmud also refers to animating non-living materials. This creatures are known as golems, and they are a blatant copy-paste of the creation. 

The characters read a book called "Anuli Paracelsus", in which the process of making homunculi is shown: 

 Paracelsus was a renowned physician and alchemist.

There is one character, 1, who looks like a Pope or Bishop. In fact, he has an unncany resemblance to Pope Pius XII. Behold:  

One is rigid and closed, he hides on an abandoned Cathedral together with other dolls. He doesn't want the others to read Paracelsus, and is opposed by 9 as well as 7, 4 and 3. He claims that he wants to protect the others, however, he never seeks to destroy the machines, unlike 9. It is obvious who One is supposed to represent. One later sacrifices himself so that Nine can save the day. 

Most dolls die after the machine leader sucks their souls out of their bodies. 9 delivers their souls from imprisonment in it by making a ritual. He burns the bodies together forming a 5-pointed star and their souls are freed. 

But they wouldn't be freed if it wasn't because of a talisman, that 6 draws in here: 

The Wizard of Oz

Few people know that Frank Baum, the writer of the Wizard of Oz. was a member of the theosophical society. The Wizard of Oz also has a significant number of sequels and many adaptations appart from The classical technicolor musical.

The story talks about a Kansas native girl named Dorothy. Doroth is absorbed by a tornado into a magical land called Oz. She is told that she needs to visit the Wizard of Oz in order to go back home, and in her travel she is joined by a Scarecrow who wants a brain, a Tinman who wants a heart and a Lion who wants courage. The Wizard tolds them to first defeat the evil Witch of the West and then he would grant them wishes. But when the mission has been achieved, they discover the wizard is a fraud. 

However, his deception does not keep him from attempting to give each character something simbolically similar to what they want. Dorothy is able to go back home since her magickal shoes, which she has been donning from the beginning bring her back to Kansas. 

Since Theosophists believe that each human is innerly divine, it makes perfect sense that Dorothy had the power to go back home by herself since she came to Oz. The same can be said of the other characters, for example, in the classical film the Lion saves Dorothy corageously from the witch and the scarecrow makes a rescue plan despite being brainless.

While most stories in the past only had evil witches, Oz introduces us to Glinda, the "good witch" of the North.  

Also, some people have noticed that the description of Oz (an emerald city with golden (yellow) brick roads) is similar to the description of Heaven, indicating that the wizard is metaphor for the Christian God. 

Baum claimed the story "came to him out of the blue". What else could have came out of the blue? The creepy Disney sequel "Return of Oz":

Screwed

Finaly, it is interesting to notice that some of the characters are animated objects, just like Nine's homunculi. There is a scarecrow, a tinman, a horse made out of wood and a pumpkin head man. 

CONCLUSION

You can prevent your children from Hollywood and Co. But the truth is that your efforts will be invalid if you don't make sure they learn catholic doctrine and apologetics. That's why I recommend the Catholic Archivist, a blog that regularly puts out links and downloadable PDF's of Catholic Books; many of them are about apologetics and I hope he publishes against paganism as well. Julian the Apostate didn't have Disney, or Marvel, or even a TV, but that didn't kept him from becoming... well, an apostate who most probably went to hell. 

And meanwhile, I don't expect the pagan idols to exterminate me for exposing their subtle traps. They must be sleeping. 

Links 

Kung Fu Panda Fandom: Qi 

Avatar the Last Airbender Fandom 

Frozen 2 in Tradition in Action and IMDB 

Millsones on the Road 5: Toxic Environmentalism 

A movie review of Avatar (film) by an argentinian semi-trad 

Vigilant Citizen Article on Nine (carefull, there are disturbing articles and pictures of celebrities in this  website - I would recommend you to skip the comment section too.)

A Series of Unfortunate Events Fandom

Golden Compass (protestant website)

Introibo Ad Altare Dei

Merry Christmas

 

Petition to Stop Vax Mandates in Latin America

 click here

And if you agree with vax passports, you deserve to be branded with the name Tyranophile 

Dystopian Novus Ordo Nativity

 

Millstones on the Road XIII: The Good Villain

Villains are meant to be the evil counterpart of our protagonist. However, there is a recent trend on telling stories in which the protagonist is meant to be villanous. He is always better than his nemesis, and his villanous behavior is somehow "justified". 

This moves further from the "villain song", which even though promotes the perversion of the villain, tends to be a disturbing sequence and children may or may not be influenced by it. Now the villain is the "hero", a misunderstood guy whose circumstances forced him to became evil, but he is not that evil so he does good things at the end of the movie. 

This is existentialist: the belief that experiences determine your morals, since Mr. Naughty can't stop himself from being Naughty since society forced him to be Naughty, so you better respect his way of being, because he is less Naughty than his rival, and his conversion isn't shown as hard. 

It is true that we don't live on a "black and white society" when all the manifestly good men are on one side and all the manifestly evil men are on other side. It is true that good intentions have bad consequences and viceversa. It's fine for children to understand this, but I suppose there are better ways of dealing with the topic than with a goofy kiddie comedy full of poop references and jokes, particularly for very small children. 

In most of this movies, Mr Naughty becomes not-so-naughty and happens to do good things, even though he is somehow still "Mr Naughty". Repetance stories are good, in fact, many stories have this message, like Little Red Riding Hood where she learns that she shouldn't trust strangers. However, unlike the following movies, Litle Red Riding Hood doesn't go parading and boasting about how imprudent she is. Get it? 

Shrek: 

Shrek was the first movie to represent a villanous character as protagonist-. Shrek is an ogre, but appart from being rude and wanting people outside his house he is mostly harmless. Not that you should be like him - it's stupid to tell your children to show manners when their hero baths in mud, farts happily, brushes his theeth with catterpillars and eructs loudily - Since ogres are meant to be villanous, the descomposition of the perception of good or evil begins.  

Despicable Me: 

In Despicable Me, Gru is a villain who wants to steal the moon. However, when he adopts three little girls he learns to be a good person. It's a heartwarming story, but the names don't change. Despicable Me. Dr. Nefarious. Minions. You name it. Seeing how taking care of the girls helps him to improve his life is nice but perhaps it would be better to have clearer-roled characters.  

I think the second is better since Gru doesn't start as a villain, except for his cross-dressing as a fairy for the birthday party. The third film destroys years of character improvement as Gru is expelled from the anti-villain agency and starts to be tempted into evildoing again.  

The precuel "Minions" is far worse than anything the other films could offer, for the Minions never become good or even nicer. They are always the same stupid pill-shaped yellow creatures obsessed with serving the most powerfull villain ever - kind of like St. Christopher in reverse. St. Christopher served satan thinking he was the most powerfull lord in the world, but left him after he discovered God was stronger. If the minions were in St. Christopher's place, they would have stayed with satan since they were looking for the strongest villain, not for the strongest lord. 

Minions are superbly popular; in 2014 they would appear on candy, cakes, pencils, kinder decorations, toys, videogames, cereal (pictured below) short videos, and they appear always in the introduction of Illumination Entertainment films. Besides the fact that they are stupid and speak unintellegibly, and the fact that they used to accidentaly kill their evil masters.

Megamind: 

Megamind is an alien who was sent to earth after his planet of evildoers was absorbed by a black hole. Megamind grows up in a prison and later learns to envy his nemesis, the lucky Metroman, and decides to pursue a life of evil as revenge for being misunderstood. If they wanted him to be evil, then he was going to be the most evil of them all! 

 Megamind only learns to behave decently after falling in love with a reporter, but his fish-gorilla minion is heavily dissapointed. He wants to continue being the bad boy and takes Megamind's conversion as a betrayal. 

One of Megamind's master plan involves creating a superhero that will need to fight against him. The  superhero later decides to be evil himself, at the displeassure of Megamind whose only purpose in life is having a "good" nemesis to fight against. Imagine that. Megamind followed the stereotypes society forced him to follow only to discover he actually wanted to be good.

Megamind constantly backtracks from being the villain to acting as a hero, perhaps to emphasize the fact that he never embraced evil fully. But then, no-sinner fully embraces evil, so Megamind still isn't an apropiate role model. Particlularly when you dance the song "Bad" by Michael Jackson at the end of the film. Both Despicable Me and Megamind eventually make their protagonist behave better, at least, than what they used to do, but they do make evil look funny, particularly when you think they are supposed to be villains since the beginning. 

Maleficent:

You are suposed to pity Maleficent because the bad King Stefan cut her wings, caused her immense pain and betrayed her for greed. In the movie, appart from loving and eventually saving the princess he cursed, she doesn't do anything good. How many movies are based around the tale of revenge? Although Maleficent repents of cursing the princess as revenge, she doesn't repent of hating King Stefan (not that I justify him). 

However, looking at the context of Maleficent as a character, we discover how bad this film actually is. Maleficent, whose first apperance was the original Sleeping Beauty, is supposed to be the encarnation of evil, meaning, the devil. Her malice is not just cursing the princess, she has fun torturing prince Phillip, whom she ties and mocks with pleassure. Now we are told that this story was fake history bc Maleficent actually Beneficent. It is true that some "good" people turn to be evil (think: John Paul II), but hey, maybe there are better ways of introducing your child to fake history than with this creepy Angelina Jolie remake.  

The Grinch: 

The Grinch is bad because he steals "Christmas", however, he beomes good because he gives it back to the villagers. 

The Grinch is apparently guilty of hating the villagers - again, because they didn't accept his green, ugly face. His one and only way of expressing  his detestation of the villagers is trolling them and eventually robbing Christmas, but it seems that more than actual or vicious hate his only purpose is to receive their attention and appreciation, as it is shown at the end of the movie after the little girl convinces him to be a friend to all villagers again. Moral: bad ppl are only misunderstood or discriminated. Having said this, the treatment that the Grinch received at the hands of the villagers wasn't good either. 

But my biggest complain is that Christmas for the villagers is no more than a materialistic and superfluous festivity. Thus, the sin of the Grinch is not contempt for Christmas as a religious feast, but only the theft of Christmas decorations. If I were the Grinch, even if I wasn't guilty of hating the villagers, I would love to destroy their miserable caricature of Christmas.  

Cruella:

Cruella breaks the record for "good villain" movies. Cruella never becomes a better person, never cleans the city from trash, never adopts three litle orphans, never saves the princess from curses and never gives Christmas back. She doesn't even become nicer. 

In Cruella, we are told about a girl named Stella, a black-and-white haired girl who was misunderstood because she was weird. Her mommy died thrown from a cliff by three dalmatians, after which she dyed her hair orange and was taken care off by two male robbers.

She wished to be a fashion designer, so she started her career working for a fashion company. However, the young woman learns fastly that the environment is rough, mean and if she keeps her weak attitude she will not thrive. So instead she develops the "Cruella"persona: a woman who is ruthless, ambitious, mean, and authoritarian, as she constantly competes with the owner of the fashion designer: another very bad woman. 

After endless scenes of bullying between the two rivals, Cruella discovers that the owner is her real mother, who abandoned her (sñigg buaaahh poor villain scene) and so she plans her big revenge. At the end, she is just like the woman she disliked so much. 

Just that instead of killing the woman who took care of a child she herself abandoned, she robbed 101 dalmatians and menaced to turn them into expensive fashion suits. 

Some people have compared this movie to "The Joker", since it tells the alleged background story of a fictional villain. While I don't endorse the Joker, I may say on it's defense that The Joker is a much more serious movie for adults in which the main character suffers from serious mental health issues, not a PG-13 movie that probably will be seen by younger children, about a cartoon character that appeared on a movie with talking animals. Evil is a very serious topic,

Cruella surrounded by the anarchist symbol. For me it's just like people who disguise as the "V for  Vendetta" character for fashion, however, I find two interpretations: 

1: Cruella is an anarchist. Stella was born good but was made evil by society. Stella must now rebel against society. Anarchists are proud of their  "bad guy" image, meaning, people who are willing to do unacceptable stuff for the sake of being offensive, breaking rules and destroying civilization. The producers mixed her for some reason with the 1970's punk fashions, which is kind of contradictory since she never rebels against society. 

2: Cruella is some sort of anarchocapitalist. She thinks that her greed is good because it brings progress to society, and even though she is mean, she produces things that will be purchased and enjoyed. I don't think Disney has this view on economy. But Cruella is greedy and she likes it that way. 

The Good Monster Trope 

Monsters like the ones pictured above are usually associated with children. 

Other people have noticed the "good monster" trope in movies.

Monsters are always meant to be evil and not merely because they look bizarre or ugly: it's because they are agressive, dangerous, they eat people, they are destructive and in ocassions they are diabolical.  

The "good monster" trope it's ussualy an acceptance movie: The monster is misunderstood, since he is actually very nice and has a huge heart. 

I agree that some people (eg; those who have deformations or say, cerebral palsy) are avoided because they are ugly, but they don't have to be evil because their exterior is repulsive. In fact, beyond the awkward and sometimes creepy face of handicapped children, you can easily find amazing souls with great talents and virtues. The acceptance message is fine in this situations. 

But the "good monster" trope is not about handicapped children. It is about vampires, who suck your blood and tend to have deals with the devil. It is about witches, who curse people and engage in atrocious occultist activities. It is about Frankenstein, a monster made of various corpses by the pride of a crazy scientist. It is about pirates, who in the past used to rob, torture, kill, (and I suspect rape) poor sailors. It is about dragons, who ussualy represent the devil. It is about zombies, who, while not malicious, will come, bite you and eat your brains with their ugly rotten theeth. 

On the other hand, "monsters"like Elmo are supposed to be monstruous, but the truth is that they look like cute, hairy humanoids. I don't see why they would be called monsters, being that they are so fluffy and harmless. Sesame Street calls all its characters monsters, yet none of them actually is monstruous. That's stupid. Monsters are supposed to be realted to the demonic, yet, Elmo doesn't look like Beelzebub. That's confusing for children's minds.  

Some movies and books with the good monster trope: 

Monsters Inc

Hotel Transilvania 

Shrek

Uglydolls 

Family Adams (the CGI version)

The Tickle Monster Book 

Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak 

Love Monster, by Rachel Bright 

Other productions are based around the children petting the monster and training him to do his bidding. Some argue that this could be used as a metaphor for controlling your own inner passions; while others say that it is not very different from the occultist who control devils and make them do their bidding. While I am not saying that your children are neccesarily going to become occulstist if they watch this shows, it may be a valid point to consider. Specially when they look like Slifer the Sky Dragon, from Yu-Ghi-Oh!.  

Wanna pet that? 

However, since most franchises on this catergory are complex tv shows, this may require a separate post. A small list of play-with-your-monster franchises is present here: 

Digimon 

Pokemon 

Yu-Ghi-Oh! 

Bakugan 

Skylanders

Friendly dragons are increasingly common in books for children. They are directly associated with satan since 1) Dragons represent satan in both Scripture and Tradition and 2) Dragons are commonly worshipped in pagan religions. (eg; Quetzalcoatl) 

Some examples would be: 

The epic fantasy novels Eragon 

How to Train Your Dragon (books and films)

The Pacifist & Diverse Wings of Fire Franchise 

Dragon Heart (this movie wouldn't even pass for blasphemy) 

Some people may argue that the "good-monster" trope may help children to cope with their night time fears. (that is, if they dont watch horror films) Maybe. But maybe, there is a better way to teach them not to fear darkness.  The good-monster trope is  a symptom of a society who thinks that difference is necesarily equal to good. Monsters no longer represent evil for us, or at least that is what we think. 

Things get stronger if we look at horror films. While Freddy Krueger, Jason, Chucky and others are genuinely evil, they seem to attract people and inspire fandoms. It starts with gentle jelly monsters, and then it moves into a fascination with fake serial killers.

Conclusion 

What can we say about our fascination with evildoers? Perhaps some of their "qualities" and powers are a temptation to us. Some people say that we would benefit from admiration of evil doers since they are fully themselves - unlike us. So what? The fact that we are tempted to be like them is the reason we should never try to emulate, obsess over, and dialogue with them and their ways. 

If you want to write the story about a villain who learns to improve himself, the best thing would be to chose one who doesn't have a strong allegiance with evildoing - like Megamind - and focus more on his current well-behaving than in the past. 

I let Pope Pius XII have the final say: 

Movies in Relation to Religion

The first: in the plot-films, is it permitted to take religious topics as subject-matter of plot-films? The answer is that there seems no reason why such topics should be, in general and on principle, excluded; the more so, since experience, tested in this type, has already given some good results in films whose content is strictly religious.

But further, when the theme is not expressly such, the ideal plot-film should not pass over the religious element. Indeed, it has been noted that even films morally above reproach can yet be spiritually harmful if they offer the spectator a world in which no sign is given of God or of men who believe in and worship Him, a world in which people live as though God did not exist. A brief moment in a film can sometimes be sufficient, a word on God, a thought directed towards Him, a sigh of confidence in Him, an appeal for divine help. The great majority of people believe in God, and in their lives religious feeling plays a considerable part. Nothing, then, is more natural and more suitable than for due account to be taken of this in films.

Films Representation of Evil

The second question about the content of the ideal film of action concerns the representation of evil: is it lawful to choose, and with what precautions must one treat, evil and scandal, which without doubt have such an important part in the lives of men? Surely human life would not be understood, at least in its great and momentous conflicts, if our eyes were closed to the faults which often cause these conflicts. Pride, unbounded ambition, lust for power, covetousness, infidelity, injustice, depravity -- such, unhappily, are the marks of the characters and actions of many, and history is bitterly interwoven with them. But it is one thing to know evil, and to seek from philosophy and religion its explanation and cure; quite another to make it an object of spectacle and amusement. Yet for many there is an irresistible fascination in giving artistic shape to wrongdoing, in describing its power and its growth, its open and hidden paths, and the conflicts it generates or by means of which it advances. One might say that for a basis of story and picture many know not where to look for artistic inspiration and dramatic interest except in the realm of evil, even if only as background for good, as shadow from which light may reflect more clearly. To this psychological attitude of many artists corresponds an analogous one in the spectators, about which We have spoken previously.

Now then, can the ideal film take such matter for its theme? The greatest poets and writers of all times and of all peoples have grappled with this hard and thorny theme, and will continue to do so in the future.

To such a question a negative answer is natural, whenever perversity and evil are presented for their own sakes; if the wrongdoing represented is at least in fact, approved; if it is described in stimulating, insidious or corrupting ways; if it is shown to those who are not capable of controlling and resisting it.

But when none of these causes for exclusion are present; when the struggle with evil, and even its temporary victory, serves, in relation to the whole, to a deeper understanding of life and its proper ordering, of self-control, of enlightenment and strengthening of judgement and action; then such matter can be chosen and inserted, as a part of the whole action of the film. The same criterion applies here that must rule any like artistic medium: novel, drama, tragedy, every literary work.

Even the Sacred Books of the Old and New Testaments, faithful mirrors of real life, contain in their pages stories of evil, of its action and influence in the lives of individuals, as well as in families, and peoples...

Therefore the ideal film should flee from any form of apology, much less of glorification, of evil, and should show its condemnation through the entire course of the film and not merely at the end; frequently it would come too late, i.e. after the spectator is already beguiled and entrapped by evil promptings.

You can read the whole writing in here. 

Ugly Novus Ordo Art

The drawings below were made by a catechist named "Fano"

 

Millstones in the Road XII: 7 Facts about Harry Potter

One of the Multiple Covers of Harry Potter Books. 

I never thought I would be writing about Harry Potter, because since I rejected Vatican II in 2016 and became a sedevacantist in 2018, I am familiarized with the reasons why the series ought to be condemned. However, I reckon many of you may be new to the world of traditional Catholicism, and the series is superemely popular, so some 7 facts about the Wizarding World would be worth it. 

Behold, my quick facts about Harry Potter, he iconical books authored by Jeanne Kathleen Rowling that narrate the stories of a boy who attends a school on wizarding and spell-making, as well as fighting against his nemesis, Voldemort. 

1: J.K Rowlling's Curious Claims about How She Writes

Jeanne Kathleen Rowling claims she got Harry Potter "fully formed"  pretty much as if she had gotten it out of the blue. Don't believe me? Well, this is how she describes her writing abilities: 

First, she describes how the characters came into her mind: 

"Harry as a character came fully formed, as did the idea for his sidekicks, the characters of Ron and Hermione who is the brains of the threesome. It starter with Harry, then all the other characters and situations come flooding into my head" (Boston Glove, January 3, 1999, Massachussets USA)

"The character of Harry justs strolled ino my head... I really did feel he was someone who walked up and introduced himself in my mind's eye" "I was staring out the window, and the idea for Harry just came. He appeared in my mind's eye, very fully formed" (Reuters, "Harry Potter Strolled into My Head" July17 2000) 

Then, she describes the way in which she writes: 

"I have a very visual imagination. I see it, then I describe what is in my mind's eye"(The Associated Press, Sheila Norman-Culp, New York, www.turkishdailynews.com)

"And I love writing dialog. Dialogue comes to me as though I'm just overhearing a conversation." (January Profile: J.K Rowwling, by Linda Richards www.januarymagazine.com)

Now, while there is some probability that Harry Potter wasn't fully written by spirits, and perhaps Rowlling is only describing a very vivid imagination as well as a character that was pretty much dwelling within her subconscious so to speak, however I think that Harry Potter's connection with the occult suggests that this facts should be considered when discussing the novels.  

2: Harry Potter and Lawfull Authority

While this is not the place to discuss obedience to lawfull authority (a good place for that would be here) sufice us to say that Harry Potter's books follow a quite anarchic attitude towards authority. For example, Harry Potter only obeys those teachers he likes and those rules he agrees with, and he is barely recriminated for his disobedience. 

While it would be fine if the books taught disobedience to evil commands, Harry and his friends are always to treat Hogwarts as a big playground where there are no rules outside of their wills, nothing matters. And the sad truth is that you must follow just laws, even if they seem to block good. 

For example, in The Philosopher's Stone, Harry and Ron are mischevous students who reject the friendship of Hermione until she lies to cover them up. Most of Harry's adventures are based around staying out of bed at night, stealing elements, investigating in forbidden areas. and lying to teachers, as well as the usage of magickal arts. His disobedience is what eventually leads to resolving the school's problems with Voldemort. 

Malfoy's house-elf Dobby engaged in episodes of self-harm every time he disobeyed his master, for the magick keep him enslaved to the evil teacher. 

In The Prisoner of Azkaban, law enforcers are Dementors, demonic creatures who feed on your soul. 

In The Order of the Phoenix, Hogwarts is controlled by a horrible woman called Mrs. Umbridge, some sort of sorcerer version of governor Withmer who exerts her self-important authoritarianism to the point of tormenting students who happen to disagree with her. She forms a snitch-on-your-classmate police directed by Harry's nemesis Draco Malfoy. 

Mrs. Umbridge was there because the Ministry of Magick had decided that Harry and Dumbledore, who were spreading the news that Voldemort was back were lyng and needed control. Later it happened that the Ministry itself was under control from the evil lord. 

While in some cases I don't oppose such portrayal of authority every-so-often, the whole books are full of this narratives whose purpose is to make it seem that the only lawfull authority is your own, and those authorities who happen to agree with you. You are not being told the whole story about authority. 

Also, some argue that concentration of power and authority corrupt morals, however, Harry and his friends are learning to control magick. What can make you more powerfull than magick? You can brain-control others, impersonate people, kill them, fly on brooms, affect their dreams and more. So our protagonist concentrates all this power and he is not corrupted, yet everyone who hates him is bad because their power corrupted them? Please. 

3: Harry Potter and the Occult

Now you've probably learned from rumors that J.K Rowlling took it very seriously and researched the actions of real sorcerers and wizards as well as demonic activity. 

However, I don't think we need to go very deep on that. Harry learns to practice divination, contact with spirits, his school is full of ghosts and most wizarding stuff that you will see practiced on religions like wicca and voodoo. Since all this things are abominable to the eyes of the Lord, it doesn't take a lot of effort to abandon these books. 

For those who are interested, some examples that show Rowlling does know something about the occult are here:

- If you are going to have "deathly hallows", it's probably because you think death is holy 

- The Philosopher's Stone is full of alchemical references. Nicholas Flamel was a real alchemist who alegedly found the philosopoher stone, a magickal powder to be immortal. 

- Harry's beloved godfather is named Sirius Black. Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Majoris, is associated with satan and false gods in some occult groups. (Fair Warning: Protestant "born again" website) This character is a misunderstood individual who protects Potter from evil, and the Magickal Authorities are always out to get him - this is pretty much how occultists understand satan. 

. Th killing curse "Haveda Kedavra" (mispelled on purpose - QUV) sounds like "Abracadabra", a word with supposed magickal healing powers. In fact, while J.K Rowlling claims most of her spells are invented, Haveda Kedavra is based on this ancient word, which was written forming a triangle 

- There is a scene were students are told to open their "mind eye". Various new-age followers believe that humans have some sort of third eye in top of their forhead, who must be opened to enlighten the individual to the occult knowledge. You probably noticed tha Rowlling refered to the mind-eye a lot in the interviews. 

- Voldemort constantly posesses people, involving the divination teacher and Potter himself. I mean, he is the villain, but it suggests wizards can posess each other. He also intrudes in Harry's mind by nightmares. 

- Albeit not present in the movies, ghosts are everywhere in the book. Related with spirit contact, spiritism. 

- The plants known as "manticores" are shaped as human babies, and they stewed as healing. Human sacrifice? Cute. 

- Rowlling uses an anagram for Madame Blavatsky, in the teacher named madam Vablatsky. Blavatsky was the founder of the theosophist movement. 

Even if we were to say that J.K Rowlling isn't an occultist, she claims she researched a lot about alchemy and knows a lot about wicca; this means that you can become heavily curious into the occult after accessing the books because you want to understand where did your beloved writer bought her inspiration from. 

4: Harry Potter's Teaching on Love is Pathethic 

Harry Potter teaches that love is what prevents you from being evil, since Voldemort is incapable of loving. Yet, can we really say that Voldemort doesn't love himself? Just as Stalin loved himself? If Voldemort hated himself, he wouldn't be so obsessed with self-preservation, to the point of putting small parts of his soul in objects to attain immortality. Harry is protected by his parent's love, but truth be told, love has no magickal powers. 

5: Hogwarts is Actually a Quite Dark, Dangerous Place

Some fans idolize Hogwarts as some sort of safe haven, even dreaming to go there and study magick. However, through the story we learn that Hogwarts (some sort of inversion of is quite a dark place. 

It is inhabited by dangerous creatures like a Cancerebrus, and the Basilisk, and Dumbledore warns Harry & Co that they shouldn't go to the third corridor of the right wing, otherwise they will face a painful death. All of this issues remind us of how reasonable the strict laws regarding safety on the school are, and how Harry does wrong in disobeying them. 

The teachers themselves don't seem to care a lot about security. They play Quidditch, a dangerous game which involves flying on brooms with heavy balls made of metal. Students have been reported to die playing this thing, and others waked up form accidents after months - implying severe impacts to the head and comatose states. 

Other stuff about the laws is increasingly dark. Characters curse each other as retalitation from harrasment and even for mere purposes of bullying. We are told that children used to be punished by hanging from their thumbs, by a character who says "he missed the screams". While learning to make antidotes for venom, proffesor Snape hints at the students that he may poison one of them to see if their antidotes worked. Mind you, but my biology teachers never asked me to taste the acid solutions we made. 

The Triwizard Competition is not much different from the Hunger Games, in which young people need to face death in a competition supposed to be entertaining. Facing dragons, mermaids and a brutally creepy labyrinth. There are reports that competitors have died in the past. Just what you want yout children to face, huh? 

6: Hogwarts is a Mixed-Sex School. This is why this is bad: 

I am a strong opponent of representations of romance in stories for children, particularly if they are very descriptive of the feelings and passions involved on it and don't reduce themselves to "they married and lived happily everafter" or "Ben loves Arwen", beacause they facilitate our obsession with romantic love. Most of Harry Potter's fan art and ficiton revolve around the romantic relationships between the students, since Hogwarts is a mixed-sex school. 

Mix gender-schools are harmfull for both sexes. For women, it makes it easier to discriminate and bully those who are fat and ugly, or nerdy and shy. Men don't attract girls by being good students, but by being bossy bad-boys with lots of muscle, so this discourages them at school. Very close, intimate friendships between men and women can lead to romance - and it's not like if romance can't lead to pre-marriage reproduction, particularly when we are young and immature. 

Ron loves Hermione, but he also loves Lavender, causing them both to be jealous of each other. Look, this jealousnes and luv competition are always there, but they are greatly enhanced by mixed-sex education. It is also a source of bullying and a significant distraction from school matters, after all, you see your girlfriend or crush at school every day.  

I was greatly sadenned to notice various Harry Potter memes revolve on romantic and sexual matters, but not surprised, since romantic love is an important topic on most books and films. 

For more information on mixed-sex education, I share this link and this link 

7: The Concept of Muggles Reveals some Dirty Facts about the Occult, as Well as a Race Supremacist Mentality on the Wizarding World. 

Those unable to use magick are derided as "muggles", and even as "dirty blooded muggles". This rather discriminatory sentence reveals a dirty secret that occultists hide. 

Have you ever been proselytized by a mason? by a theosophist? by a wiccan? A gnostic perhaps? No. This is the reason why this religions are known as "occultism", because unlike others, they aren't really interested in converting people to them. I am perfectly fine whith that, for I loathe the proselitism of false religions, but the concept of hiding "da truth" from those pesky, smelly, inferior masses is full of hubris and speaks very badly of esoterism in general. (Why would you want to hide "da truth"?) Makes them look elitist, and dishonest, as they prefer to sell themselves via subliminal messages in books and films rather than letting their beliefs to be exposed to the bone. 

How many open-minded parents let their kids consume Harry Potter material? They would rather die than let their little ones be intolerant of sodomy, marxism, apostasy and depraved popular musick by repeating mantras like "live'n'let live" "everybody is different but equal" and "as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, is fine", but letting their children read a novel in which those not born with magickal powers are contemptuosly refered to as "muggles" is suddenly all right? In fact, the books say that those with magickal powers have magic in their blood, and "muggles" have not a single drop of magickal blood into their veins. Can't wait until they cancel Harry Potter for racism. 

Conclusion:  A Vatican II Sect Connection?  

It is undeniable that the Vatican II sect members are divided on this issue, just as they are divided on whether muslems and Christians worship the same God, wheter you can enter Heaven as a non-Catholic, whether adulterers and non-catholics can receive communion and so forth. Some people rejoice in the "elements of truth" of Harry Potter, suggesting the franchise is "christian" and that Harry teaches you "loyalty, bravery and friendship". Others see the book as an occultist, morally relativist satanic crap that ought to be burned and forgotten.

That didn't keep L'Osservatore Romano from approving the films Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as well as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. 

(Hey, but what do you expect from a newspaper that would praise Michael Jackson, David Bowie and Judas Iscariot himself?) 

The polish novus ordo who burned Harry Potter books? Apologized to the mob. 

It's sad that Harry Potter would be so popular in our society, but we couldn't expect less from this world. Harry Potter fans who happen to come across this post will probably try to devour me and call me hateful and so forth, but I don't care. I enjoy not liking Harry Potter. 

 

I don't like Tangled, either, but the meme is just perfect. 

Memes that Will Open your Mind Part 4