Opus Dei It Is Gruesome - Road to the Middle Class

SHOULD CHRISTIANS emulate the Muslims? Should they tear the place up and burn a few multiplexes when Hollywood produces a blasphemous movie like The Da Vinci Code?

Mary Wakefield went to see the movie and found herself cringing after about fifteen minutes.

Five minutes into the film, I began to squint with embarrassment, and after 15 I slid down in my seat so as not to catch a Christian eye. The flick itself is daft... but the attack on Christianity is breathtaking.

After the movie she exchanged a couple of words with Jack Valero, PR man for Opus Dei, �for once without his trademark grin.�

"It is gruesome to see my brothers and sisters represented in this awful way, it bears no relation to reality," he said.

Hollywood is, after all, just a bunch of artists. They get their anti-religious bigotry because it is in the air. Anti-religious bigotry is in the air because believers in our modern secular religions higher up the food chain, the MSM and the universities, fill the public square with their secular culture and their secular religion. Hollywood types pick it up and turn it into movies.

How can you blame them? They experience their anti-religious art as an enlightened and creative challenge to a backward superstition. They want to enlighten the world and convert it to their secular religion of government-run compassion and sensitivity and individual creativity, and they are completely right to understand Christianity as a stake poised above their beautiful prostrate bodies, about to be driven into their enlightened secular hearts.

(Yes, of course history is witness to countless religious wars conducted in the name of God. But what do you think the great wars of the twentieth century were all about? They were wars provoked by militant secular religions.)

The culture war is a religious war. It is a war between a God-based religion and a secular religion. It probably won�t come to an end until one side wins.

Nobody can know who will come out on top. But there is this to think about. The secular world view may be helpful and beneficial to an educated, creative elite. It is, after all, their religion. But the record shows that it is utter ruin to the folk trying to make it in the city. That is why the welfare state has made the inner city into a war zone of joblessness, helplessness, and hopelessness—and brutal violence. The people who have just arrived in the city need not so much material as spiritual aid.

That is something that our secular elite just cannot understand.

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Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.