{"id":15647,"date":"2018-06-19T00:47:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T00:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=15647"},"modified":"2018-06-19T14:09:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T14:09:05","slug":"entertainment-assumes-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/entertainment-assumes-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment Assumes Control"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"RobertAt LaSalette in the French Alps Our Lady told seer Melanie Calvat that before major events, “there will be a kind of false peace in the world. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“People will think of nothing but amusement.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

And so it is, that entertainment and entertainers (and perhaps a false peace) have taken the reins in the incredible new moral configurement of Western culture. We are all about “reality” shows but really it is a culture of unreality. Much sophistry, in our time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most notably, actors now somehow believe that their knack for playing roles — pretending, on stage or screen, they are someone else — is a transcendental ability that, as such, entitles them to the political and moral stewardship of nations — even though there are few industries that equal the im<\/em>morality (and by its very nature, falsity) of the acting world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"ImageThis was in evidence last week<\/span> when a “superstar” named Robert De Niro, whose major movie parts have included those of gangsters, a psychotic taxi driver, and the devil, felt wholly in his rights to appear before a national television audience and use the “f”-word to denounce a leader.\u00a0Fists in the air, the charge of a brigade, he spoke as though\u00a0his words were of great moment. <\/span><\/p>\n

To some, even many, they are. They certainly made fodder for the media. Yet one can be excused for asking how what he states — laced with profanity — could be taken seriously.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"RobertThis is hardly to say that entertainers cannot be respected and for that matter elected, just because they were entertainers (see: Ronald Reagan).\u00a0But it is a culture, is Americanism, that bequeaths acting — which did not really exist, in major form, until the past two centuries — with far too much gravity. This includes those in Christian movies.<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s to their credit<\/span> — appearing in spiritual films — but the idolatry and cult followings engendered thereof are a sign of societal dysfunction and certainly a lack of perspective.\u00a0Is Barbara Streisand worthy of a national political soapbox because she sings? Or Jane Fonda, because she acts? Or comic Roseanne Barr? Or Meryl Streep?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not to judge the celebrity (for a “star” can as moral\/spiritual as anyone– as insightful — and we all have the right to an opinion), but must we take it so seriously, as a collective? Is it not indicative of current rampant idolatry? So counter, is it — to the humility of Jesus, Joseph, and Mary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Know this: there is no celebrityhood in Heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is “worldliness” at its utmost, a sign of the times when entertainment takes over. And that’s the case today in North America. Amusement rules and promises to continue<\/em> ruling the land; the evil one, intent on distracting us from what is of real, eternal importance, is busy making sure of that.<\/span><\/p>\n

[resources: Tower of Light<\/a><\/span><\/em>\u00a0and Where the Cross Stands<\/a><\/span>]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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