When I attended my godchild’s confirmation a few years back, one part stuck in my mind. When it got to the part where you renew your baptismal vows, you are asked to ‘reject Satan and all his empty promises’. The reply was a very quiet mumbling, I do. The Bishop didn’t take kindly to this saying, pointedly, I doubt Satan will be quaking in his boots at that one. Let’s try it again, and duly the reply was louder.
I assume the good Bishop was looking at Ireland’s latest Eurovision offering by a one Bambie Thuggish, or Ballerina mud, or something or other and thought, Crikey! Satan won’t be quaking in his boots at that one. In fact, he will be claiming a few more souls.
Like many I long checked out of Eurovision way back but if you follow the news cycle you can’t have missed this one. My opinion of the performance when this song, predictably, became the qualifier, is here.
The song and performance Doomsday Blue, although catchy, are, in my honest opinion, a celebration of the satanic and demonic. What I find most sinister is the lack of pushback. The lack of outrage should have all decent people well, outraged.
I didn’t watch Eurovision, obviously, but I saw enough on twitter to know it is now a battle between a bunch of a narcissists for the most degenerate performance possible. Just how low can you go? Oh, this one has hardly any clothes on, and this one is non-binary and has hardly any clothes on, but I’ll raise you and slap down my demonic imagery card, followed by my satanic imagery card. And we are all just supposed to go along with it.
I tell you, it is time to get out your ‘Down with this sort of thing banner’ and say enough. Oh, Laura, you might say, you are so predictable, you’ve gone full Mary Whitehouse. Why are you getting you knickers in a twist over a song, when you look at what is going on in the world. Why do you care?
I care because first I can’t do anything about the really big stuff and second the culture war is an important war to fight. The culture is really the only thing you can influence – even if it is the culture in your own house. Also, a lot of people owe Mary Whitehouse an apology – she got a lot of it right.
When Taoiseach Simon Harris reckons “the whole country will be rooting” for Bambie Thug during Saturday night’s Eurovision Song Contest, he should be called out for this obvious nonsense. It is just not true. As John pointed out already – it is simply not the case that ‘the whole country’ was behind this performance.
The Taoiseach and every other politician that pushed the line – Bambie Thuggish is great – should be asked if they think this celebration of the demonic, this dark and frightening performance was suitable for children? Did he let his own children watch it?
The gaslighting also annoys me – how the mainstream media and politicians will tell you to your face, what a great performance Bambie thuggish was, and dare you, positively dare you, to disagree.
Well, I do disagree. It was thuggish, degrading, and dark. To a cynical adult like me it was a bit naff but for a child frightening. Take this tweet from our ever-moronic Tánaiste, Micheál Martin “Well done Bambie Thug for a wonderful performance in the Eurovision final tonight, finishing in 6th place – our best result in many years.
You’ve done Ireland, Cork and Macroom proud this week.”
Now I don’t know which is worse, the fact that he might actually believe this or the fact that he doesn’t really believe it but felt he had to tweet it – like the shopkeeper in the Soviet East who had to put up the sign ‘workers of the world unite’ to demonstrate his conformism.
(Micheál Martin is fresh from his ‘Rwanda scheme is a deterrent’ battle that he lost hands down with Prime Minister Sunak which followed his total defeat in the stupidest referendum ever, crushed 9 – 1 in Donegal, during which he managed to insult mother and barrister Maria Steen on Prime Time TV. The sneer summed it up – you and your religious ways. That’s what he thinks about a lot of the more ‘conservative voters.’)
Let’s be very clear, there is nothing anyone in Ireland has to be proud about in the BT performance. I am willing to accept that if she wasn’t placing spells on people, (as John has discussed) she could be a talented performer and song writer. But what does she decide to do with her talents – push satanic imagery on an audience of millions, many of which will be children. That’s not nice.
Now, I know we live in Modern Ireland ™ – I got the memo on that one, don’t you worry, who could have missed it. (The Irish media and politicians were hacking their way through the wilderness to give you the memo on that one). Modern Ireland ™ has given us nearly 10,000 abortions a year – progress indeed!
But being modern doesn’t mean you have to whole the whole hog. It doesn’t mean you must go all the way to worshipping the Devil. I mean get a bloody grip on yourselves people. That’s not modern – that’s just stupid. (Mind you given the aforementioned child sacrifice perhaps we shouldn’t be so surprised.)
There is nothing fun or entertaining about promoting the occult. According to every religious and cultural branch of our Judeo-Christian heritage, Satan stands for hate – he sows the seeds of discord, fear, anger and is indeed the Father of Lies. The Tánaiste and the rest of Modern Ireland should stop lying to themselves and everyone else by celebrating this garbage. That’s what it is – filth and garbage.
And I have a few other people I’m annoyed with, and some of you are not going to like it. If you are one of those parents who prepared your innocent child for the First Holy Communion (it was Holy Communion weekend here in my local primary school and didn’t they get the weather for it) then you should not under any circumstances be encouraging or permitting your child to watch this battle of the degenerates.
There is such a thing as decency, and this is not decent. I bet there were a fair few parents who having dressed their little girl in the Communion white, a symbol of innocence and light – and then after all the celebrations sat her down in front of the telly box to watch Eurovision. You want to take a long hard look at yourself in the mirror, if this was your Saturday entertainment.
Now I’m not saying I’m a saint. But sometimes you must take a stand. Others who must take a stand are parish priests and Bishops. If there is blow back so be it. One parish priest did speak out about it and more power to him.
And I don’t want to hear, oh they’ll call us all child-abusers. So what, get over it. Any mass going readers will know this week was the Feast of the Ascension when the Good Lord ascended to Heaven and left the apostles to spread The Good News. Do you think those apostles went around saying, oh best not upset the Romans. They can be a bit mean. They can get a bit handy with the whole throw to them to the lions part. No. They got on with it and took the consequences.
So as I said, the culture war is the one war you can have meaningful participation in. The culture is what your children and grandchildren are raised in. Also if you want to know why immigrants are not so hot on the whole integration project then take a good look at Eurovision. Ask yourself, hand on heart, if you were an immigrant would you really expose your children to this ‘western’ culture.
Do you think all the little Muslim kids were lined up on their sofa with the popcorn to settle down to watch demons and pentagrams? If you do believe that, I think all that mid-song screaming by Bambie Thuggish has sent you a bit do-lally.
In sum, do yourself and your children a favour and never watch Eurovision again. You might not be able to take the whole thing off air, but you can take it off the air in your own sitting room. It’s easy. You pick up the remote control and hit the red button. It is the same button you press whenever those two fools Simon Harris or Micheál Martin come on to tell you ‘diversity is our strength.’