Tuesday 31 August 2021
Wednesday 25 August 2021
King St. Louis VS BLM
Calumniating The King
(Today is the feast of King St Louis, so I decided to republish this post. You can find the original here)
There were other skirmishes, including other peaceful protesters being hit and even some reports of them being spat upon by BLM. (See, e.g., https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2020/june/attack-catholics-praying-elderly-man-who-were-protecting-king-louis-ix-statue). Why the anger over the French King? Two charges: (1) antisemitism and (2) racism/"Islamophobia." In this post I will present the life and virtues of King St. Louis, expose the damnable lies leveled against him, and demonstrate the evil of his detractors. My sources on King St. Louis are:
- Louis IX: Most Christian King of France, [1968] by Margaret Wade Lebarge
- Saint Louis: Crusader King of France, [English edition; 1992] by Jean Richard
- Saint Louis, [2009] by Jacques LeGoff
King St. Louis IX: Quintessential Catholic Monarch
St. Louis IX, King of France, was born at Poissy on April 25, 1214. He often referred to himself as "Louis de Poissy" because he considered his true birth to have been in the place where he was baptized as a member of Christ's One True Church. He was one of ten children born to King Louis VIII (reigned 1223–1226) and Queen Blanche of Castile (lived from 1188–1252). He was their second son, but when his older brother Philip died in 1218 at the age of nine, Louis became Crown Prince (i.e., male heir with the right to inherit the throne) at the age of four.
King Louis VIII died at the age of thirty-eight, when St Louis was only twelve years old. The young child received coronation as King Louis IX, but the boy-King was unable to rule under the French law, promulgated by past kings, decreeing that no one may exercise kingly authority until age 21. His extremely devout and pious mother, Queen Blanche, became Regent of France which meant that she could rule France by making binding decisions in the name of her son until he was old enough to rule on his own. She was the de facto ruler of France from 1226-1235, making her the most powerful woman in Europe, if not the entire world at that time. She was a brilliant woman, and made many shrewd alliances and deals with other nobility, ensuring that her son would rule over an even more powerful France.
The greatest thing Queen Blanche did, and indeed, the greatest thing any mother could do, was to impart to her royal son the knowledge and love of the Catholic Faith. St. Louis himself gave credit to his mother for instilling his love of the Church. The Queen told him, "I love you, my dear son, as much as a mother can love her child, but I would rather see you dead at my feet than that you should ever commit a mortal sin." The saint said at the end of his life he always remembered those words and lived by them.
In 1234, at the age of twenty, the saint married Margaret de Provence, a woman described as "fair of face, but fairer of faith." It was important to the King that his Queen should be as devout as he was in the practice of the Faith. He was not disappointed in his Queen. He often would say that his life was guided by the motto, "All for Christ, All for France, All for Margaret." He ascended to the Royal Throne on April 25, 1235 assuming all powers of an absolute monarch. His mother went from being Queen-Regent to Queen-Mother, a figurehead with no authority, but who continued to exert great influence over her son.
King St. Louis IX: Seeking First the Kingdom of God
While "power corrupts" is a truism in most cases, it did not apply to St. Louis. Upon receiving full power as monarch, Louis set about achieving his personal goal of making France the foremost Catholic kingdom. It began with his prayer life and holy example. He recited the Divine Office daily, and attended the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass twice each day. Once when reproached by one the nobles that he "spent too much time with praying" and didn't give enough attention to matters of government, the justly angry King told him, "If I spent my time idly, by hunting and other pleasures of royalty, no one would object. You dare to upbraid me for seeking first the Kingdom of God?" The noble was speechless.
The virtuous King often abandoned royal garb for a hair-shirt to do penance, and would sleep on the floor many nights. His devotion to the Most Holy Sacrifice was legendary. Saint Louis would genuflect during the Nicene Creed at Mass to show reverence to the incarnation of Christ, "the greatest event in human history" at the words,"ET INCARNATUS EST DE SPIRITU SANCTO EX MARIA VIRGINE: ET HOMO FACTUS EST." ("AND BECAME INCARNATE BY THE HOLY GHOST OF THE VIRGIN MARY: AND WAS MADE MAN."). This pious practice was quickly emulated by his subjects, and even began to be practiced outside France. Rome responded by making the practice, an incentive to piety, part of the actual rubrics. Think of King St. Louis the next time you genuflect at the Credo during Mass!
The King and Queen had eleven children from their holy marriage; six sons and five daughters. He recognized that his most solemn duty as a father was to instill in his children the same love of Christ and His One True Church that he had. He would teach them their catechism and go to Mass with them. He made praying with them a priority. It is believed he never told a lie and never broke a promise.
The Latin emperor of Constantinople gave St. Louis the Crown of Thorns in 1238, and the saint built the magnificent Sainte Chapelle to house this relic of Christ's crucifixion. King St. Louis is often depicted holding the Crown of Thorns. He built many churches, encouraged vocations, and protected all religious orders.
King St. Louis IX: Giving Alms to the Poor and Enforcer of Catholic Morals
The King had a great love for the poor, and would invite numerous serfs into his castle to eat with him. He would often disguise himself as a beggar and circulate among the common folks to ask what they thought of the King. He would take to heart any complaints and seek to rectify them. He abolished prostitution and made sure those women who were caught up in such sinful living were given the ability to turn from sin and make living wages doing something useful. He made blasphemy punishable by being branded on the lips. When the pope told him he thought the penalty to be too severe, the saint replied that he subjected himself to the laws he promulgated and would gladly have his own lips branded if he spoke a blasphemy, so as to rid France of that sin. Out of respect for the pope, he mitigated the penalty to several months in a dungeon.
King St. Louis abolished usury, and in 1240 had all copies of the blasphemous Talmud publicly burned in Paris. The Jews were hated for charging interest on money, and the King had them wear an identifying badge to warn the people and hope for their conversion. He gave strict orders that no Jew was to be harmed under any pretext. More than once he served as a godfather for the baptism of a converted Jew. All false religions were banned from public worship, and only the Catholic Faith, the religion of the State, could be practiced in public and proselytize. The King made two incredible legal reforms; he abolished the so-called "trial by ordeal," a judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of the accused was determined by subjecting them to a dangerous experience and predicated on the belief God would save the innocent by a miracle. The saint rightly concluded this was a form of tempting God to "show me a miracle and prove Thou art Just." He also introduced the presumption of innocence. This was done in response to the wealthy accusing the poor of crimes and demanding they prove themselves innocent when they were uneducated and couldn't afford help. Now all were presumed innocent and the burden of proof was on the accuser to prove guilt.
King St. Louis IX: Crusader for Christ
When he fell violently ill, the King made a vow to go on a Crusade in the Holy Land to save the Catholics from the savage Mohammedans. St. Louis’s first Crusade (The Seventh Crusade;1248–1250) was a response to the conquest of Christian-controlled Jerusalem by a Turkish and Egyptian force in 1244. After the Holy City was taken, the victors massacred the Christian inhabitants and desecrated the churches. The King's Crusade was set to punish Egypt for that attack and ultimately restore Jerusalem to its Christian king. It failed. Louis’s army was defeated, and he was thrown into prison.
St. Louis negotiated a deal for his release in exchange for the payment of a heavy ransom. When Turan Shah received half payment from Queen Margaret, he released the King. His advisors begged him to leave Egypt and not pay the remaining half of the ransom, but the virtuous king refused because he had given his solemn promise, and remained until the full debt was paid.
King St. Louis IX: Rooting out Corruption in the Church
It was precisely because the King loved the Church so much, that he would rebuke and stand against any cleric who stepped beyond their spiritual power and acted like they were starved for glory and temporal power. A group of bishops met with King St Louis to demand that he take their side against some nobles in a dispute because they were clerics. The saint (literally) laughed in their faces and said that he would side with those whom he believed to be morally right, which in this case was the nobles, and they should not use their position as bishops to attempt to further a cause in which they were clearly wrong.
When certain bishops were excommunicating their subjects for the slightest reason to keep them in line, St. Louis did not hesitate to publicly admonish them for devaluing the punishment to the point that it wouldn't have the medicinal effect of meaning much and causing people to amend their ways.
King St. Louis IX: Banishing the Disease of Heresy
The King kept company with St. Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas, whose mind never stopped thinking, was dining with St. Louis, when the Angelic Doctor stood up, pounded the table and said, "That's the argument to defeat the Albigensian heretics!" The King's guards came to admonish St. Thomas, but the good King told them to immediately bring St. Thomas something to write with so he would not forget his argument.
The King would often compare heresy to disease and would do all in his power to extirpate it. This analogy of heresy to disease was even contained in the bull of his canonization:
He [Louis] abhorred those who were infected with the macula of perversion [i.e., heresy]. So that they would not infect the adepts of the Christian faith with the rot of this contagious disease, he hunted it out with efficient efforts beyond the boarders of his kingdom, and by exercising his attentive, preventative concerns for the condition of his kingdom, he cast these ferments out of it and allowed the True Faith to shine there in its authentic state.
King St. Louis IX: A Man of Strong Faith
It is related that in the King's private chapel, a miracle took place when he was not there. When the priest consecrated the Host, it had turned into a visible Christ Child! One of his good and faithful servants ran to the King to tell him what happened, and come and see for himself before the miracle ended. The saintly King just hung his head, deep in thought. His servant couldn't understand his reaction. "Does not your Majesty wish to come and see the Infant Jesus?" He lifted his head and replied, "No, my good man. With the eyes of Faith, I see the Infant Jesus in the Host every day at Mass. Go, and call those who do not believe to witness it. As for me, I believe He is there every day, as the Church teaches." King St. Louis IX truly lived the words of Our Lord, "Jesus saith to him: 'Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and have believed.'" (St. John 20:29).
King St. Louis IX: Living in Sedevacantism
Upon the death of Pope Clement IV on November 29, 1268, until the election of Pope Gregory X on September 1, 1271 was a long interregnum. The King lived approximately the last year and nine months of his life with no pope on the throne of St. Peter. This never prevented him from living and dying as a true Catholic; in a certain sense, he is a saint for our unique time of near universal apostasy. He never lost the faith, and our prayers to him will ensure his most powerful intercession that we keep the Integral Catholic faith as Traditionalists.
King St. Louis IX: Dying as he Lived--A Devout Catholic who Loved Our Lord and Our Lady
The rise of the Mamluk general Baybars and his merciless campaign of terror against the Christians in the Holy Land prompted Louis to take the cross a second time. St. Louis was in his fifties, and it had been twenty years since he first left on his first Crusade. The Crusade was a disaster from the start and ended with St. Louis contracting a fatal disease. He composed a letter to his son, Crown Prince Philip who would become King Philip III, aka Philip the Bold. Here is just part of what St.Louis wrote to him:
Fair son, the first thing I would teach thee is to set thine heart to love God; for unless he love God none can be saved. Keep thyself from doing aught that is displeasing to God, that is to say, from mortal sin. Contrariwise thou shouldst suffer every manner of torment rather than commit a mortal sin.
If God send thee adversity, receive it in patience and give thanks to our Saviour and bethink thee that thou hast deserved it, and that He will make it turn to thine advantage. If He send thee prosperity, then thank Him humbly, so that thou becomest not worse from pride or any other cause, when thou oughtest to be better. For we should not fight against God with his own gifts.
Confess thyself often and choose for thy confessor a right worthy man who knows how to teach thee what to do, and what not to do; and bear thyself in such sort that thy confessor and thy friends shall dare to reprove thee for thy misdoings. Listen to the services of Holy Church devoutly, and without chattering; and pray to God with thy heart and with thy lips, and especially at Mass when the consecration takes place. Let thy heart be tender and full of pity toward those who are poor, miserable, and afflicted, and comfort and help them to the utmost of thy power.
Worn out from toil and sickness, King Louis IX received the Last Rites, and while praising Jesus and Mary, gave forth his soul to God at the age of 56 on August 25, 1270. He was infallibly canonized and enrolled among the saints of the Church by Pope Boniface VIII on August 11, 1297--almost exactly 27 years after his holy death. His feast day is kept on the day he entered Heaven, August 25th.
Exposing the Calumnies of the King's Evil Enemies
The Jews and the Mohammedans hate King St. Louis IX. That these enemies of Christ should hate one of His saints and cast aspersions upon him should come as no surprise. The Times of Israel happily reports:
Umar Lee, who started a petition for the city [St. Louis] to remove the statue and change the city’s name, organized the anti-statue rally. The petition, which had 849 signatures as of Sunday evening, says Louis IX was “a rabid anti-semite who spearheaded many persecutions against the Jewish people,” as well as “vehemently Islamophobic.” (See https://www.timesofisrael.com/st-louis-archdiocese-defends-statue-of-king-louis-ix-who-persecuted-jews/amp/).
Southern Jewish Life reports that Lee is also planning to ask Pope (sic) Francis to decanonize (!) Louis IX. (See sjlmag.com/2020/06/missouri-activists-shine-light-on.html?m=1. And leave it to Bergoglio to do something so invalid and evil). The Vatican II sect happily joins forces with Jews and Mohammedans because the Modernists are just as wicked. The Vatican II sect's Archdiocese of St. Louis gave a lackluster defense of the saint, and there was no official effort on the part of any cleric from Bergoglio on down to denounce BLM and counter the petition. The Jesuit rag America denounces the great saint in an article written by one Eve Tushnet, entitled "Don't Hide From the Sins of St. Louis." Tushnet is a Jewish convert to the Vatican II sect and sodomite. She is the author of Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality. (I'd love to write a book, Vegetarian and Eating Meat: Accepting My Diet and Self-Contradictions).
Tushmet denounces King St. Louis IX for his "antisemitism;" most notably burning the Talmud. She writes, If there is one thing a church (sic) facing a catastrophic sexual abuse crisis needs, it is willingness to admit the sins of our heroes. If our first instinct is to defend "the church," not to defend the truth or the victims, have we really learned the lessons of the abuse crisis? (See https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/07/06/dont-hide-sins-st-louis). This is sheer blasphemy and lies. That King St. Louis was imperfect, conceded; that he was antisemitic denied. Likewise, he was neither racist nor "Islamophobic" (a made up word that labels anyone who spurns that diabolic sect as "mentally ill" by having an "irrational fear" ). The lesson of the abuse crisis is that the Modernists allowed sexual perverts (like Tushmet) into the seminaries after Vatican II and Communists sent thousands of sodomites into the seminaries to infiltrate the Church. To claim that correctly declaring the truth about the heroic virtues of King St. Louis and refusing to impute to him made-up sins is somehow analogous to the Vatican II sect covering up for pederasts is just plain madness.
Here's an examination of the charges against the saint, and proof of their falsehood.
King St. Louis and the Jews
- It was the interest-charging Jews who were evil for imposing usury. To warn the people against borrowing money from them, they wore a badge, and this also served to protect them against violence by royal decree.
- The King wanted their conversion and was godfather to several converted Jews
- The Talmud deserved to be burned because it is a blasphemous, evil book.
Proof of the Talmud's evil:
THE TALMUD gets its name from the word LAMUD — taught, and means The Teaching. By metonymy it is taken to mean the book which contains the Teaching, which teaching is called Talmud, that is, the doctrinal book which alone fully expounds and explains all the knowledge and teaching of the Jewish people. For nearly five hundred years after the Babylonian Talmud was completed, the study of literature was greatly hampered partly due to public calamities and partly owing to dissensions among the scholars. But in the eleventh century others wrote further additions to the Talmud. Chief among these were the Tosephoth of Rabbi Ascher.
Besides these there appeared the Perusch of Rabbi Moische ben Maimon, called by the Jews Rambam for short, by the Christians Maimonides, and by Rabbi Schelomo, Iarchi or Raschi.
Thus, the Mischna, Gemarah, Tosephoth, the marginal notes of Rabbi Ascher, the Piske Tosephoth and the Perusch Hamischnaioth of Maimonides, all collected into one, constitute a vast work which is called the Talmud.
The Talmud teaches that Jesus Christ was illegitimate and was conceived during menstruation; that he had the soul of Esau; that he was a fool, a conjurer, a seducer; that he was crucified, buried in hell and set up as an idol ever since by his followers.
In the Tract Sanhedrin (103a) the words of Psalm XCI, 10: 'No plague shall come near thy dwelling,' are explained as follows:
"That thou mayest never have a son or a disciple who will salt his food so much that he destroys his taste in public, like Jesus the Nazarene."
To salt one's food too much or to destroy one's taste, is proverbially said of one who corrupts his morals or dishonors himself, or who falls into heresy and idolatry and openly preaches it to others.
In the same book Sanhedrin (107b) we read:
"Mar said: Jesus seduced, corrupted and destroyed Israel."
it is explained why animals must not be allowed in the barns of Gentiles, and why Jews are not permitted to have sexual intercourse with them:
"Animals must not be allowed to go near the Goim, because they are suspected of having intercourse with them. Nor must women cohabit with them because they are over-sexed."
In fol. 22b of the same book the reason is given why animals especially of the feminine sex must be kept away from their women:
"...because when Gentile men come to their neighbors' houses to commit adultery with their wives and do not find them at home, they fornicate with the sheep in the barns instead. And sometimes even when their neighbors' wives are at home, they prefer to fornicate with the animals; for they love the sheep of the Israelites more than their own women." (See The Talmud Unmasked:The Secret Rabbinical Teachings Concerning Christians, by theologian Pranaitis [1892], available in full online at http://www.talmudunmasked.com/index.htm).
King St. Louis and the Mohammedans
The Crusades of St. Louis were not done out of hatred for a person's race, but for the protection of Christians and the conversion of those "still in the darkness of idolatry or Islamism" (Prayer for the Consecration of the Human Race to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus). St. Louis' biographer LeGoff, relates that when in Egypt, the saint met the Sultan of Babylon. Through an interpreter they spoke. The King said he was sad. The Sultan asked why and St Louis responded, "It is because I have not won the thing I wanted to win the most, for which I left my sweet country of France..." "What is that?" the Sultan asked. "It is your soul," said King St. Louis. He explained how the Sultan and the Mohammedans could only be saved by Jesus Christ and His Church. The Sultan responded, "In following the law of the most blessed Mohammed we hope to one day come to enjoy the greatest pleasures in the afterlife." The King (no ecumenist!) immediately replied, "That is why I can only be thoroughly astonished that you men who are discreet and circumspect give your faith to that sorcerer Mohammed who commands and allows so many dishonest things. I have actually looked at and examined the Koran, and I have only seen filth and impurities in it..." The sultan was so moved, he began to sob at the concern St. Louis had, as he pleaded for the conversion of the Moslems. (See LeGoff, pgs. 647-648).
Proof that the Koran teaches wickedness:
The Koran is an evil book written under demonic inspiration. Strong words? I own a copy. Here's what it teaches:
"O ye who believe! Fight the unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you; and know that Allah is with those who fear Him." (Sura IX 123) Islam spread by means of violence. Catholicism spread by being persecuted and loving Her enemies along the way.
"They do blaspheme who say: 'Allah is Christ the son of Mary.' But said Christ: 'O Children of Israel! Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord.' Whoever joins other gods with Allah, Allah will forbid him the Garden, and the Fire will be his abode. There will for the wrong-doers be no one to help." (Sura V 75) Islam says Christians go to Hell, and Christ is not Divine; He allegedly told others to worship the false moon "god" Allah.
"O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (For friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guided not a people unjust." (Sura V 54) Mohammedans are told not to have Christians or Jews as friends.
Also taught:
Women are inferior to men (Sura IV 34)
Men can, and even should, beat their wives in some circumstances (Sura IV 34)
Allah does not love the unbelievers (Sura III 32)
The Modernists' and liberals' conundrum: If you support Islam, which supports the inferiority of women and approves of them being beaten, doesn't that make you a misogynist? But if you condemn Islam for being misogynistic and not a "religion of peace," doesn't that make you "Islamophobic"?
Conclusion
Now it can be seen why BLM, the Jews, Mohammedans, and Modernists despise and spread lies about King St. Louis IX. He is the embodiment of everything they hate. Here is a layman with a large family who puts God first. He believed there is only One True Church to which all must belong if they are to be saved. He didn't believe in ecumenism, that Moslems worship the same God as Catholics, and he did believe the Jews were the Deicide race who also need conversion because proselytism is not "solemn nonsense." He did not believe in separation of Church and State, or religious liberty, but that every State must be a Catholic State. He lived a life of heroic virtue, realizing that power and money are to be used in the service of God, and any other use is folly. He was solidly Catholic and proud of it; the model Christian ruler and knight, who with supreme valor, upheld all that was good, true, and beautiful. Where is any of this in our politicians of today? The enemies of King St. Louis IX hate the King of kings Whom he served so well. This is all the more reason to honor and emulate him!
The Collect from the Mass in honor of King St. Louis IX, Confessor: "O God, Who didst translate Blessed Louis, Thy Confessor, from an earthly throne to the glory of Thy Heavenly Kingdom, grant, we beseech Thee, through his merits and intercession, that we may have companionship with the King of kings, Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who with Thee liveth and reigneth in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen."
Tuesday 24 August 2021
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Millstones on the Road VI: They Want Your Children to End Their Own Lives
This will be the sixth of a series of articles relating the dangers of the modern media for your Catholic Children. I hope this articles will help you to take care of the spiritual health of your children.
To state that the world is in a bad state of affairs is to state the obvious. Children are very easy to influence and a Catholic must take care of their souls. Remember and meditate on what Queen Blanche told to King St. Louis!
Most of my articles are related to media aimed at children usually 4-14 years old. However, today I am going to make an exception and talk about media aimed at older people, usually 14-19 years of age. The reason for this is that our modern society forces your children to think like teens when they are just entering prepubescent age.
Suicide is the most cruel action you can do to others who love you. However, it is at rise. Hordes of wipping snapping, crybaby, nihilist emotards spread their depressing, hopeless, wallowing mire of negative sayings, arguments like "its me life and I do what I want" and "but I am just going to merge with pachamommy or reincarnate as a butterfly" on social media. If you kill yourself you ar going to Hell unless a very 1% possible rare miracle happens, and you are going to viciously torture posthumously those who loved you. As weak or loser as you are, you are still capable of attaining many things, includng Heaven, and you are much much better than you feel you are.
In this post I am going to focus on three things that want your children to kill themselves: the Netflx show 13 Reasons Why and the mindless lockdowns being imposed in our society.
13 Reasons Why: Mortal Failure
13 Reasons Why is a 2017 show broadcasted in Netflix and it tells the story of a girl named Hannah Baker, who is bullied and decides to kill herself, and make 13 casettes directed at the people who wronged her, and the story of how Clay Jensen, one of the 1 kids, listened to the tapes.
I remember that when it came out everybody was fawning over it. When the show came out in 2017 the parents if my generation (2002) were mesmerized. They thought the show would allow them to understand modern adolescents and potentially help their teens if they encountered such a situation (mental health issues caused by bullying). All my friends (including myself) were heavily impressed, from bad taste jokes to obsessively describing the show to those who have not watched it. We were 13-15 years old young souls. The show catched so much attention that we even discussed it on ethics class. It was supposed to make us consider that bullying is wrong and it can really damage people. Yeah sure. The show has not stopped the vicious bullying that so many kids engage in, and instead has turned vulnerable boys and girls into suicidal, nihilistic drones. Bravo.
Instead of saying a message it is a morbid, psychopathic, uneccesary torment full of sexual degeneracy that will kill yous children's innocence and it will not help them to solve this social problems. It is not much different from Elite, a pornographic spanish teen drama focused on class struggle and crime. You learn more about suicide prevention from a slice of cheese pizza than from 13 Reasons Why.
There was an increase in suicide rates after the show came out, and many psychiatrists said that the show's description of suicide was unacurate and could push vulnerable people into killing themselves. What did the show did? A heart-felt apology and lots of penance? Producing a positive documentary of people who didn't kill themselves? A disc of cheerful, positive songs? No. They made another season, this time with an advertisement that said something like "if you having trouble, please visit 13 Reasons Why.com and seek help". Some people may have benefited from this website, but if you don't delete the first season, if you don't improve it, it's damage control.
Healthy people unlikely to relate to Hannah may be startled and think the show glorifies suicide; some stuff on the show, for example, the suffering of Hannah’s friends may make it look like the show suggests suicide is cruel. However, not everyone may look at the show like this; many (specially those depressed or miserable) may think Hannah got her revenge and she took the right choice. This happened to me and to this day I still experience suicidal thoughts. (I have never attempted it) The curious thing is that at the beginning i interpreted that the show opposed suicide.
Before her death, Hannah was ignored and only had one friend. After her death. she became the dark legend of the whole generation. Her suicide was trauma-based mind control on those who wronged her. Some of them were so affected by it that they attempted suicide, needed counselling, started taking heavier drugs, and melted down like an ice cube in Abu Dhabhi: Hannah's revenge had been acomplished.
¿Is this the message we want to give ignored introverts?
There is a story about a mother who left her child alone and after giving him too many instructions he ordered him not to put beans into his nose. He had never thought about doing such a stupidity; so when the mother left he ran to the kitchen and stuffed his nose with beans. Suicide is like the beans. 13 Reasons Why is like a mother. Many teens think what is presented in the show is “cool” and can be imitated. Many teens have not seen good enough examples and they will imitate what they see in tv. After all, the show is popular and many people liked it. The producers were told NOT TO present the suicide scene and they did not listen. This people do not care about you.
And in case this has not convinced you, I present you two experts:
Psychology Scholars Jeff Bridge and John Ackerman had this to say about the show 13 Reasons Why:
"Youth may be particularly susceptible to suicide contagion," said Jeff Bridge, first author of the study, director of the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research at Nationwide Children's and professor of pediatrics, psychiatry and behavioral health at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, in a statement.
Bridge explained that contagion can be "fostered by stories that sensationalize or promote simplistic explanations of suicidal behavior, glorify or romanticize the decedent, present suicide as a means of accomplishing a goal, or offer potential prescriptions of how-to die by suicide."
Ackerman, now a suicide prevention coordinator at the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research at Nationwide Children's Hospital, also criticized the show's portrayal of the common adolescent fantasy "you'll be sorry when I'm gone!" explaining that teens should not be led to believe that something shocking and permanent (trauma based mind control - QUV) is the only way to help others understand their pain.
"Portraying suicide as the inevitable outcome of Hannah's victimization was, at best, a missed opportunity and, at worst, dangerous to those vulnerable to suicide," Ackerman wrote.
Now, I repeat again, maybe the "13 Reasons Why.com" announcement helped some people. If it did, then good. But if the book and show are still lurking around, it is pure damage control.
Besides this, the show has the following beauties to help parents discuss with their pups the importance of fighting against cyberbullyng
Graphic sex
Rape scenes, because you need to see it to oposse it
Defends sodomy
“Anarkizm iz guud”
Scenes of onanism
Bullies sodomizing a teen with a stick
The same teen plans a school shooting
Depressing, bad pop music
Drugs and alcohol, shown as an escape or weakly criticized.
Scenes of a teen watching porn
Conflicted relationships everywhere
Naked people
It is easier to prevent suicide at large with two pepper grains and a thoothpick, than with 13 Reasons Why. Be careful with what you let your children watch, because even movies mostly unrelated with the topic may present an unhealthy suicide scene.
Lockdowns for the Cattle
This may not be related with children's media, but I think it is important to mention this.
There has been an increase on suicides after the powers that be decided that covid was too dangerous to let people live normal lives. Gee, who would have tought that people needed fresf air, socializing, entertainment, family contact, hope, order and the jobs in which they gain their daily bread. Its much better to stay at a corner, watching endless hours of tik toks and dancing nurses while blessing Dr. Fauchi and the CDC for their mercy at allowing you to be unmasked in your house, and for protecting you from a virus you are likely to survive. (specially if treated with Ivermectin).
If after reading this you advocate for lockdowns, if you panic every time somebody is not having their kids masked, if you think vaccine passports are a good idea, if you think that perhaps lockdowns are necesarry, or any of this nonsense from your propaganda tv shows after looking at all the damage lockdowns have caused, you are not compassionate, but a selfish, arrogant monster. And if you are a public person, you deserve the death penalty. I can understand if you are confused, ignorant, misinformed or just too weak to think outside of yourself and your grandmother. I can, but this lazyness and this conformity need to stop. You need to change yourself and then we will know you are truly compassionate.
Would you have a healthy, happy, full of life children to slash his wrists or starve himself to death because you got afraid of a virus? You are the kind of person who would throw stones at the jews in the Holocaust, viciously scourge your slaves and accuse your neighbors to the police to be starved to death at a gulag.
Years for children are longer than they actually are, and their immature, weak minds don't manage to see the light at the end of the tunnel. They are tired of endless zooms, endless mask wearing, and endless loneliness. The only friend they are allowed to contact is their I-Pad and he is not a very good friend. Some other children are suffering risk of starvation, poberty, low grades, physical and mental health problems, increased domestic abuse and the alcoholism of their parents. Compare all this, with the pain of lossing your granny. My grandpa died this year and there was nothing we could do to stop it. Sure, we miss him, but we are all just going to die and that's just too bad. But if he had killed himself, nothing on earth could gave us comfort. A covid death, if no negelect of treatment, is accidental.
Other Suicide Provoking Media:
It is true that suicide is the combination of various factors, but these things don't help anybody. They help you have an open attitude towards suicide and combined with sad life situations, make you more closed towards life.
Pro Euthanasia propaganda: websites, pamphlets or even books and movies, Mar Adentro and Whose Life is It Anyway are a good example, but also "Me Before You" and Amour.
Robin William's Classic "The Club of Dead Poets", were one of the kids kills himself because he is not able to follow his dream of being an actor.
The movie and book "The Road", in which a dad and son live in a distresing world of ashes. (would you believe me that we watched it at school?)
Rock and Metal bands. The bad guys, like Black Sabbath, Nirvana, Suicidal Tendencies, Pearl Jam, Blue Oyster Cult, but also "good guys" like The Police (Can't stand loosing you) Elthon John (I think I will kill myself) and Pink Floyd (Waiting for the Worms). I once read somewhere that listening too much to sad music like Adelle, doesn't help a lot.
Philosophies like existentialism and nihilism.
Kubler Ross Tapes and Death Education. Kubler Ross was a woman who studied dying people and became obsessed with making death look "cool" and "beautiful".
Belief in Reincarnation. Why wouldn't you kill yourself if you think you will reincarnate in a butterfly?
Wasting your time in social media. There are studies that show an increased use of social media makes you more likely to have anxiety, depression and mental health issues. There has been an increase in suicide rates after social media.
Sexual degeneracy
Reading too much depressing stuff
Useful Links
Suicide Prevention
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/suicide-prevention
Daily Catholic (Lots of Devotions and Prayers)
Meditations on the Passion of Christ
Conclusion
13 Reasons Why is sill streaming on Netflix, is still popular, and many parents, particularly those who didn't lose their children to the show (among other things), may think that the show will help them to understand this topics. But the truth is that if you really want to discuss this things, you can only talk with a doctor, a person with experience like a psychiatrist or a teacher or a wise Catholic. Not with a Selena Gomez produced show immoral enough to be an X-rated film, less informatic than CNN and as depressing as a plague of emos in a cold January morning just as the city is about to be nuked.
Your children - and you - deserve better than that. 13 Reasons Why could have been a strong voice against bullying, and motivate mentaly and emotionally unhealthy teens to seek help either from friends, their parents, or counselors. Instead it inspired thousands of useless memes, meaningless class discussions and heart-wrenching deaths.
I publish the following prayers for those who need hope.
Memorare
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known, that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help or sought thy intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins my Mother. To Thee do I come, before Thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy, hear and answer me. Amen.
Act of Hope
O my God, relying on Thy almighty power and infinite mercy and promises, I hope to obtain the pardon of my sins, the help of Thy grace, and life everlasting, through the merits of Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Redeemer.
Prayer of St. Alphonsus
Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin and my Mother, Mary, to thee, who art the Mother of my Lord, the Queen of the world, the Advocate, the Hope, and the Refuge of sinners, I have recourse today, I who am the most miserable of all. I render thee my most humble homage, O Great Queen, and I thank thee for all the graces thou hast obtained for me until now, and in particular for having saved me from Hell which I have so often deserved. I love thee, O most Amiable Lady; and, for the love which I bear thee, I promise to serve thee always and to do all in my power to make others also love thee. I place in thee all my hopes and I confide my salvation to thy care. Accept me for thy servant and receive me under thy mantle, O Mother of Mercy. And, since thou art so powerful with God, deliver me from all temptations, or, rather, obtain for me the strength to triumph over them until death. Of thee, I ask a perfect love for Jesus Christ; through thee I hope to die a good death. O my Mother, by the love which thou bearest to God, I beseech thee to help me at all times but especially at the last moment of my life. Leave me not, I beseech thee, until thou seest me safe in Heaven, blessing thee and singing thy mercies for all eternity. Amen; so I hope; so may it be.
St Joseph's Memorare
Remember, O most pure spouse of the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, that never it hath been heard that anyone invoked thy patronage and sought thine aid without being comforted. Inspired by this confidence I come to thee and fervently commend myself to thee. Despise not my petition, dear foster father of our Redeemer, but accept it graciously. Amen.
Tuesday 17 August 2021
Millstones on the Road V: Toxic Environmentalism
This will be the fifth of a series of articles relating the dangers of the modern media for your Catholic Children. I hope this articles will help you to take care of the spiritual health of your children.
To state that the world is in a bad state of affairs is to state the obvious. Children are very easy to influence and a Catholic must take care of their souls. Remember and meditate on what Queen Blanche told to King St. Louis!
Environmentalism is perfectly fine: there is indeed a need to take care of the planet, reduce our rubbish production, recycling, taking care of the biomes and avoiding water pollution.
However, there is on point in which environmentalism becomes toxic: it is when it becomes the whole focus of our life, or when we throw morality under the bus because of the planet, for example, when we promote mass genocide to help the animals or vicious disobedience and contempt towards your parents. Sometimes it can even be used to promote communism and a New World Order, as well as paganism and Pachamommy worship.
In my opinion, the worst
kind of environmentalism is PETA style animal-rights fighters, who would persecute, demonize and even try to kill those who believe eating,
experimenting, skinning and farming for human benefit is not a mortal sin. (Update: There was a mistake in this paragraph, but I have changed it)
It’s true that humans and
animals share many characteristics, including DNA, but it is also true that the
animal-rights movements is entirely based on feelings, not facts. They believe
that humans are animals because of evolution, and that this therefore means
that we have no God given right to benefit from animal death or pain.
However, when you consider how animals treat other animals, the whole PETA falls down on it’s knees. Cheetahs strangle to death the gazelle they will eat – usually baby gazelles. The parasitic wasp paralyses tarantulas and makes it’s babies eat the spider. Hyenas, wolves, jackals and wild dogs hunt grazers and tear their flesh away. Ants have been observed to farm caterpillars and aphids. Cats play with their preys. Anacondas swallow and strangle to death their prey. Chimpanzees have been observed to kill other monkeys. Yet, if I want to dine beef or salmon I deserve to be impaled and brutally maimed. Which kind of pot-smoking, unrestrained, imagine all the people, effeminate wipper snapper dreaming loser can believe such nonsense it's beyond me.
It’s fine if you seek to
alleviate the pains of animals. But every species look up for their own, and
your desire to help animals should not surpass your desire to help other
living, thinking, human beings.
Bambi-Style Ecological
Trauma Based Mind Control
Books and movies for
children about animals are everywhere. Some of them show toxic
environmentalism, some of them don’t. The more toxic are the ones who show
animal vs human antagonism, the not toxic at all are those in which all the
characters are animals, who have no contact with or act like humans, as well as pets like dogs or cats. I grew up playing
the Open Season videogame and we loved watching these films, and I loved Black
Beauty. However, I was well taught on the right to eat animals; and considered
these movies as mere fiction. Yogi the Bear and Scooby Doo are not equal to
real animals.
Your kids may not share the
same luck. A very sensitive child can be trauma-based mind controlled into animal’s
right activism with Bambi. I want to share my analysis of some movies
and books with animals and assess how toxic their environmentalism is (if any).
The Tale of Ferdinand (movie and book)
Ferdinand tells the story
of a bull who is raised for bullfighting, yet he is peaceful and loves flowers.
The movie tells the same story but with a twist: Ferdinand escapes his farm and
goes to live with a flower seller as a pet. Stung by a bee, he ruins a flower
competition and is taken back to his farm, when he wins the respect of the
other animals and saves his rival bulls (who think he is weak) from being
slaughtered.
It seems that bullfighting may be moral in some situations and it's not intrinsically evil. You need to shorten the pain of the bull (I am thinking on analgesics) and make it safe for the bullfighter. I think you can criticise bullfighting and that is not PETA style animal rights activism.
But this movie also opposes bulls in your meal, and that is toxic. Families live by slaughtering bulls and making burgers, so opposing this via a movie when talking bulls don't want to be eaten it's not appropriate.
Toxic Level 10 (5 for the book)
Manny the mammoth, Syd the
sloth and Diego the saber-toothed cat form an unlikely friendship as they try to
retrieve a lost baby to his family.
Although Manny's family was killed by men, he stills returns a baby back with his family. This means that either Manny understands life is tough and humans need to feed and this movie has no moral on the topic, or the film teaches that mammoths are better than humans.
Toxic Level 7
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom:
Nothing is more toxic than thinking on preserving the lives of huge, dangerous, pre historical dragons, say that they are a punishment for our lack of care for the environment, (and that God is out of the equation), and let them roam freely on earth where they will destroy cities, eat humans and (yes) compete with other nicer, smaller, cuter animal species, because "they ur alive like ME". I think we could use the dinosaurs as food, but if they die off then that's just too bad.
Toxic Level 10
RJ the racoon needs to
collect human food for a Hbear who will kill him if he fails to do so. He finds
a mismatched community of forest animals who just discovered their forest was
surrounded by suburbs during their hibernating, and teaches them to steal items
from humans to survive.
The curious thing about
Over the Hedge is that animals benefit from humans. Foxes, raccoons, skunks and
even polar bears are seen in urban zones and feed from human rubbish. You may
criticize their lack of respect for the property of others though.
Perhaps Over the Hedge's most virulent form of toxic environmentalism is the laser plague control trap, but then movie says it' illegal "except in Texas". Overall it is yet another Dreamwork's nihilist comedy.
Toxic Level 7
Yet another be yourself
story about a penguin who can’t sing unlike his peers, yet he knows how to tap
dance. Later, the movie evolves into a ecological drama as Mumble travels all
the way to Florida to tell humans they are fishing way too much fish, and
throwing way to much rubbish into the sea.
Happy Feet moans about our trash invading the oceans and that's fine, as well as over fishing, which is a problem (alas, not as serious as contraceptive pollution perhaps). Yet, it’s subversive be yourself message, as well as excessive usage of pop musick, gives it no brownie points.
Toxic Level 6
Yet another be yourself
movie about a bee who wishes to think outside the hive, go out with a lady,
promote critical bee theory, and defend oppressed bees.
Bee Movie moans about bee keeping and that's toxic. I don't think the smoke you use to calm them is as toxic as the movie shows. However, moaning about the extinction of bees is not toxic since they are important pollinators and help plants. Barry eventually learns that flowers need bees and that producing honey from pollen is good. But it seems he never rejects his position against bee keeping, or his woke way of defending bees (eg; he said Sting’s artistic name was offensive to bees). I think maybe beekeepers should let their bees pollinate in the wild, but the movie criticizes bee keeping per se and not for accidental damages to the environment.
Toxic Level 8.5
Wall-e criticizes trash excess and that's fine. It could moan about global warming or human consumption of animals, but it does not do that, focusing instead on a real problem. It does criticize consumerism which will trigger your libertarian friends but obesity is wrong, laziness is a sin, and we should not be so materialistic. What annoys me is that robots are more sentinent and smarter than humans. Aren't robots more stupid than men? Aren't they potentially dangerous for the planet? They don't even have feelings. Please.
Toxic Level 5
When you consider rats cause bubonic plague and other diseases, and that they can eat people alive, Rattatouile's scene where Django tells Remi he should not cook because humans kill rats can be considered toxic environmentalism. However, this movie does not have a humans vs animals’ antagonism, after all, Remi likes humans, he even says rats are stealing food, makes them to bath in the dishwasher and tries them to improve their habits.
Toxic Level 6
I think the Lorax's main problem is that it exaggerates environmental problems. We don't pollute the earth to the degree shown in the movie. All the Truffula tres are cut down, when in real life, they would have been mass planted, or at least there would be regulations to it's use. The thneed is a pathetic invention, unlike roads, cars, trains, planes, cities and other good things that do damage the planet. The movie has an evil rich corporativist selling air in bottles but no human would survive like this. So it does not tell the whole story of environmentalism.
The good thing is that Ted doesn't really rebel against his mom. The bad thing is the Lorax makes a big drama for ONE three being cutted down, which is toxic because the Lorax reacts as if he just killed the last dodo. At least he doesn't moan about global warming.
Toxic Level 8
Kenai is turned into a bear after killing a bear. Before we get deeper into the movie's message, I want to analyse whether Kenai should have killed that bear or not.
The bear had stolen some salmon Kenai and his brothers had caught, leading to them chasing it and engaging in a violent fight at the top of a glacier.. To protect his brothers, Sitka, one of Kenai's brother, sacrifices himself, falling from the glacier with the bear, who survives. Kenai then wishes to avenge his brother and kills the bear.
While the bear was not the direct cause of Sitka's death, I don't see what was wrong with Kenai wishing to kill the bear. It may have been immature, imprudent, reckless, and unnecesary, but the movie treats it like if it were an outright murder. And that's toxic. The bear later happens to be the mother of the little cub Kenai befriends.
Besides, you have the pagan element. I ignore how much of the movie's mythology is actually inspired on the beliefs of Alaskan native americans, but you have this "great spirits" changing stuff (seasons, time), and these "totems" that will give you guidance. It doesn't seem to be pantheistic, but the Shaman Tanana tells that Kenai's totem, the "Bear of Love", is a "love that unites all living things". This frase is open to a pantheistic interpretation, being that the movie teaches that you should not kill a bear unless he is attacking you.
Toxic Level 10
Chicken run tells the escape story of a group of chickens from their farm. Nothing wrong with eating chickens or eating their eggs. Otherwise PETA would have to punish this fox:
The movie may be a comedy but you can't deny that if rational chickens were about to be turned into chicken pies or slaughtered if they stop laying eggs, it would be a high stress situation for them. But then they ain't rational. I feel pity for the farmers (the Tweedy's) because they live in a stressfull marriage and they face economic troubles, yet you are meant to have fun when the chickens explode their farm.
Toxic Level 10
Bambi's mother being killed by men it's probably a good example of environmentalist’s trauma-based mind control. The mother is shot, and Bambi can't find her. "Mommy? Mommy? Where are you?". Considering that veal may be the food these men give to their families, it may be considered toxic. But if these men were merely having fun, or hunting outside of open season without need, then it’s not toxic, or not as toxic.
Toxic Level 9
The fake-version-of-a-real-indian Pocahontas sings the following song: "Colours of the Wind", in which she teaches englishman John Smith - and your children - pagan pantheism, and indeed, toxic environmentalism.
You think you own whatever land you land on
The earth is just a dead thing you can claim
But I know every rock and tree and creature
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name
You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you (i don't disagree with this line, BTW)
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew, you never knew (toxic environmentalism?)
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned? (if I were a rabbit, and did that, I wouldn't be here)
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest
Come taste the sun-sweet berries of the earth
Come roll in all the riches all around you
And for once, never wonder what they're worth
The rainstorm and the river are my brothers
The heron and the otter are my friends
And we are all connected to each other
In a circle, in a hoop that never ends
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
Or let the eagle tell you where he's been
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind
How high does the sycamore grow?
If you cut it down, then you'll never know
And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
For whether we are white or copper-skinned
We need to sing with all the voices of the mountain
Need to paint with all the colors of the wind
You can own the earth and still
All you'll own is earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind
Maybe I can't paint with all the colors of the wind, but I can cancel this song for (pagan) toxic environmentalism.
Toxic Level 10
For this floppy-plotted, scientifically inaccurate film, it does have lots of toxic environmentalism, particularly promoting children rebelling against their parents, criticizing cock eating, the global warming and sanctimoniously having animals moaning about how bad ppl are.
Toxic Level 10
A bunch of woodland animals make the life of a man who plans to build houses in their forest impossible. His son learns to show more tenderness to the eart via his girlfriend, who tries to save the woodland animals. I do think that there is something we should do for the decrease of biomes: because this animals are creatures of God and may bring benefits for us. Just think about all the good things we get from the forest. Watching a raccoon trolling a man who wishes to maintain his family may be toxic, overall is a dumb comedy, but that does not mean it's message is innocent.
Toxic Level 7
Dr Doolittle (1967)
I won't analyse the Dr. Doolittle movie with Eddie Murphy; because of it's rough, adult-oriented humour. The sequel for this movie tough has toxic environmentalism since animals rebel against humans.
The 1967's musical has some degree of toxic environmentalism, since Dr Doolittle is vegetarian. He sings:
"I do not understand the human race / Has so little love for creatures with a different face / Treating animals like people is no madness or disgrace"
Overall is just another 60's musical leftie dumb comedy.
Toxic level 8.5
Madagascar 1 and 3 have no toxic environmentalism whatsoever. Madagascar 2 has some lost New Yorkians building a damm that takes away water from the animals. It's fine to be aware of this potential problem, but no lost New Yorkian would be able to build such a damm in African territory without the government aproving it first. Just saying. Overall Madagascar is yet another Dreamworks nihilist comedy, and it's environmentalism is not as toxic as it's vulagrity.
Toxic Level 6
The Animals of Farthing Wood. (Tv show)
After Farthing Wood is
being urbanized, it’s animals form a covenant between species as they travel
towards a natural reservoir.
Famous for it's violence,
The first season of Animals of Farthing Wood is ecological trauma-based mind
control. The other seasons focus on animal vs animal violence. Since species
have sworn not to damage each other, we can assume that the series teaches that
animals are more peaceful and nicer than humans, which the following pictures of shrikes prove are false.
(This pic is from the show)
Toxic Level 9.5
Black Beauty
The auto biography of a
black horse and his multiple owners. Every chapter is a lesson on what the author thinks
is wrong in the ways horses were treated on England. It criticizes
drunk-riding, hunting (not on therms of animal cruelty towards foxes but in therms of the accidents that hurted men and horses), animal exploitation, badly riding and cruelly training horses.
The good thing about this book is that it criticizes unnecessary animal - and human - suffering, while it doesn't really criticize the use of horses for the benefit of the human race. There are chapters in which Black Beauty helps humans.
Other people have observed that the book is very sad and even depressing, and that perhaps Ana Sewell would have been more succesfull if she tried to add some hope. Otherwise, a young, sensitive child would be trauma-based mind controlled into PETA style animal rights activism by thinking that horses suffer too much at the hands of humankind. After all, Black Beauty is on PETA's books for children list.
Toxic Level 5
In Frozen 2, queen Elsa learns that she needs to re-conect the 4 last things spirits of nature with humans. The 4 spirits of nature are angry because the norweigans built a damm and warred against the Northuldra, a tribe inspired by the Sami tribe. Subliminal, but nothing is more toxic than pagan environmentalism
Toxic Level 9
Moana's environmentalism is subliminal: Moana and Maui must return Te Fiti her heart, or else, life will go extinct. Moana's tribe has already noticed the extinction of fish. Te Fiti looks like pachamommy. See:
There is a scene in which Moana defends a very dumb cock from being cooked by her peers. She says that "Well, some of our strenghts lie beneath the surface, while others... far beneath... But I am pretty sure there's a lot more to Hei Hei than meets the eye." later, the cock saves the stone. This could be interpreted as a condemnation of cock eating.
Toxic Level 9
Miss Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (movie and novel)
This movie is has super smart genetically modified rats who have been experimented on, and they help a mouse to move her house (about to be destroyed) with her child sick with pneumonia.
As long as the research is useful for us, I agree with experimenting on animals. For the animals’ rights activists, suffering it's the greatest evil, yet alleviating the suffering of say, handicapped people, is somehow unjustified because we are animals? Perhaps you should tell the cat who appears on the movie how bad he is. Nevermind, in the movie Nicodemus the rat says that the animals suffered "to satisfy some scientific curiosity", implying the experiments were useless.
Mrs. Frisby has to move her house from a field since plowing time is coming, this may cause compassion in some children for the animals who build their houses in fields, but then I think this is undue since the tractors are too noisy, and the animals would run from it.
Toxic Level 7
Charlotte's Web (book and movie)
Wilbur is a pig who
befriends a spider named Charlotte, and how she saved him from slaughter.
Although Charlotte's Web is a wonderful book about self-sacrifice, it's treatment of human consumption of pigs is way too effeminate. If a pig ates a human they couldn't care less, yet we are supposed to pity Wilbur. So maybe look for another story about self sacrifice, or teach your children to love bacon.
Toxic Level 8
This film tells the story of a Green Turtle named Sammy and his travels around the world. The movie criticizes rubbish, oil spilling and over-fishing, which is not toxic, but it does mildly criticize turtle soap eating which is toxic. It also glorifies de Hippy life style since a Hippy woman takes care of Sammy twice, and carves the hippy love sign on Sammy's shell. Seems that it has some songs by the Beatles. This has nothing to do with toxic environmentalism, but you get the idea.
Toxic Level 7
Open Season is toxic, in the sense in which the animal vs human narrative is very strong. You may disagree with entertainment hunting, though.
Toxic Level 7
The Wild is not against humanity, since the animals at the zoo are happy and they have no problems with men.
Non Toxic
This pagan, bizarre day of the dead story has a scene against bullfighting. Manuel must fight against all the bulls his family has killed in order to came back from the dead and save his town. Instead of fighting, he sings a song of admiration for the strength of the animal, and how bad he feels at their demise. Again, you can criticize bullfighting, if you like, just don’t be so sentimental
Toxic Level 4
In this movie, a teenager and his friend learn to defend a family of owls from the evil rich capitalist who wishes to build a house over the poor birds. He even learns to act beyond the law. How toxic.
Toxic level 10
Conclusion
Overall it seems that most of these movies focus on respect towards animals instead of focusing on most pressing issues, like water and air pollution, loss of biomes, rubbish accumulation and deforestation. This may be an accident of producers making stories about talking animals to entertain children and not being creative enough to take humans from the story. I find it quite sad since animal right's activism is on it's nature the worst kind of toxic environmentalism. Other movies attempted to give a message of environmentalism and ruined it with teen-spirit ecology and naturalism.
As a kid I could watch this things and get past the message. But given the context of PETA, toxic environmentalism, global warming, the cheapening of the human life and outright Pachamommy worship, perhaps it would be a good idea to throw the Tv from the window and maybe find a better way of entertaining your children. The irony is that this will reduce your carbon footprint.
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