Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland
". . . Schindler's List" was shown again recently, but with a very strong spin on it. It was advertised the day before by a 6 x 6 inch ad in most papers.
AND this is the important bit, with genitals in full view, contrary to Japanese law that forbids such display; sexual organs are normally covered with fuzzy bits or pixulated. . . "
In "The Camp of the Saints" the author asks:
"Did you ever see the lamb attack the wolf and gobble it down?" and later on he asks: "Ever been swept off your feet by a herd of stampeding lambs?"
In those two telling sentences lies the metaphor of the amazingly mute prototype
of the shy, lumbering and awkward victim of systematic social subversion
who finds an outlet for his rage at last at what is happening.
That rage, I believe, will not be triggered through "race" as
the incendiary means by which it will ignite, but rather, I believe, by
repeat violations of people's sacred icons.
I predict that a serious show-down between our side and our opposition's
will eventually come in the cultural or, more specifically, in the religious
realm.
(Ernst's comment here: "Boy, I doubt that! Christians have become spiritually
circumcised!")
Right now the various churches are confused, floundering and falling all
over their toes to show that they buy right into political correctness,
and it is not unusual, especially on our continent, to have Christians routinely
greet each other on the steps of their churches with "Shalom"
to affirm their political correctness.
(Ernst: "I just drove by a Shalom Korean Christian Church in Toronto
today. . . ")
No such concession, however, from the other side is coming our way.
In "All Things Considered," in a Financial Post article by MICHAEL
COREN (no date supplied in the submission) we read the following, for instance,
pertaining to an art exhibit:
"Rather than describe the prize-winning entry in detail and cause offence to many people, let me merely say the work consists of a graphic depiction of a priest having oral sex with Jesus Christ. I believe the picture is obscene, immature and hurtful, that it is as hateful as the rantings of a Holocaust denier or the screams of a Klansman.
Now it goes without saying that the artist involved, and those who awarded him his prize, are not courageous. Can we imagine them, for example, being so committed to the truth of their art and the fight against so-called censorship that they would have replaced Christ with Mohammed and would have entered a contest in North Africa rather than North America? The act would have been just as vile, but the result might have been a little more interesting.
. . . Nor is the figure in the picture merely of Christ, but of Christ crucified. Even for those who are not Christian or religious in any manner, this is particularly significant. Here we have a person at his most vulnerable, his hands and feet nailed to a cross, his body recently whipped and tortured. The sado-masochistic connotations are obvious."
· And there are other signs of systematic cultural and religious
subversion. WFTS, the ABC affliate in Tampa ran a report on 13 January 1997
on the 6 pm news which was relayed to us as follows:
". . . The widespread state custom of families placing roadside memorials where their loved ones had died in auto accidents became a bit unwieldy - so the state decided to replace then with white "plus" signs, an international traffic symbol advising safety.
The South East Florida American Jewish Committee protested that the international symbol looked too much like a Christian cross and the plan has been shelved due to the number of Jewish votes in southeast Florida . . . "
Now I ask you: If you had lost a loved one in a road accident, would that
not cut right to the core of all that you hold dear?
Can it get more intrusive?
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"Adam, poor man! Punished for nothing."
(Elie Wiesel, as quoted in Peter's Quotations, p. 427)