Perhaps one hallmark of today's Culture of Death may be the fascination of teens and young people in the occult. Anyone with an iota of sense understands that occultish accrutements often serve as sedgeways into satanic dabblings. The so-called "goth" subculture is one facet. In the 1960's we saw this creep in with TV shows such as "Bewitched" and "Dark Shadows". Nowadays we see fascination with vampires and such, with shows such as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and the "Twilight" movies. Again, it is the oblivious fool who holds these things to be nothing more than harmless fads.
Unfortunately, this week the Catholic Standard joined this less-than-stellar crowd of fools with its review of the movie "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse". I won't go into all the details of the storyline and various characters. Suffice it to say that I cannot fathom how an ostensibly Catholic newspaper can be so neglectful as to make no mention of the spiritual perils inherent with this "goth" culture. In fact, I'd say this review could only serve to whet the curiousity of the youngster with this movie. More disgustingly, the Catholic News Service rates this movie as A-II (adults and adolescents). Why this isn't considered "morally objectionable" I'll never know.
Let me bring in other considerations, if spiritual matters are of no interest to supposedly Catholic news media. It seems that many teenagers, due to direct influence of these "twilight/vampire" things, are now biting each other - all in the name of "love", of course! Mothers! Don't you remember having to teach your toddlers that biting others was mean and unaccepable? I'm sure that biting was grounds for some "time-outs" sitting in a corner. And now some very mixed-up kids are claiming that to be "love and affection"? Well if that's "love" I wouldn't want to see "hatred". Besides most folks with common sense know that's a great way to spread disease.
Many young people are very misguided. The Catholic Standard and Catholic News Servicee, with this review, are exacerbating the problems of young people. Shame on them.
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