{"id":1830781,"date":"2023-01-31T18:35:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T23:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830781"},"modified":"2023-01-31T18:39:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T23:39:35","slug":"is-something-diabolical-permeating-our-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-something-diabolical-permeating-our-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Something Diabolical Permeating Our Culture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fis-something-diabolical-permeating-our-culture%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830781&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Is there something sinister in our culture? What does the term actually mean? What does it really mean?<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/its-time-to-say-goodbye-to-sam-smith-his-latest-music-video-belongs-in-the-trash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recording my show yesterday<\/a>, I couldn\u2019t stop thinking of the vulgarity in Sam Smith\u2019s music video and what it says about the decay in our society. When I was talking to my husband about this topic, he reminded of a sermon from Venerable Fulton Sheen on the Devil that he had listened too over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>My husband and I also discussed the timeless lesson found in Adam and Eve\u2019s fall from the Garden of Eden.<\/p>\n<p>Grouped together alongside the current definition of diabolical \u2014 before the Left changes it \u2014 I perhaps we can answer the questions posted above.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat is the diabolic from the purely psychiatric point of view?\u201d <\/em>Sheen, a late-Roman Catholic bishop, once <a href=\"https:\/\/bigccatholics.blogspot.com\/2016\/07\/venerable-fulton-sheen-on-devil-as.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>. <em>\u201cDr. Rollo May analyzes the word diabolic, it comes from the Greek words dia and balime. Dia-balime is to tear apart, rend asunder. Anything, therefore, that breaks pattern, that destroys unity, that corrupts gestalt, produces discord, that is the diabolical. Now, there has been a great increase of the diabolic. Notice for example the discord in the Church, the discord in religious communities, the discord among the laity regards the Church, discord in the clergy. All these are manifestations of a spirit of the diabolic that surrounds us. Now this psychiatrist [Dr. May] analyzes the way in which the diabolic works. And he mentions three: First love of nudity. Secondly, violence, aggressiveness. Thirdly, split personalities, no inner peace, disjointed minds.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Does anything explain Sam Smith\u2019s music video better than that description? His new video is truly diabolical.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a love of nudity. It\u2019s a love of violence. It even has a split personality.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Smith, once a normal person, now identifies with \u2018non-binary.\u2019 He has a split personality. He doesn\u2019t know what he is. He\u2019s everything. He doesn&#8217;t have an identity. That\u2019s what being \u2018non-binary\u2019 It is possible to effectively use <em>I don&#8217;t know who I am. I think I could be everyone and anything at the same time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He puts nudity on full display \u2014 in an aggressive and violent manner, no less \u2014\u00a0in the \u201cNot Here To make Friends\u201d Video music\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Bishop Sheen (the psychiatrist), that&#8217;s diabolic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Per The Oxford Learner\u2019s Dictionary, the definition of diabolical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com\/us\/definition\/american_english\/diabolical#:~:text=Look%20up%20any%20word%20in,Oxford%20Advanced%20Learner&#039;s%20Dictionary%20app.&#038;text=2(informal)%20extremely%20bad%20or,terrible%20The%20traffic%20was%20diabolical.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What does it mean?<\/a> \u201cmorally bad and evil; like a Devil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This description leads me to Monday&#8217;s conversation with my husband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is Sam Smith doing this? His music is already great. Why does he have to stoop to this level and force us to say goodbye to his music? Why must we delete his songs from our library?\u201d I wondered a lot.<\/p>\n<p>My husband, who was a theologian in school, started to talk about the Garden of Eden using the Bible. Everybody \u2014\u00a0even non-Christians \u2014\u00a0knows that in the Bible, The Garden of Eden was wholesome and full. It was peaceful, and it was full of unity.<\/p>\n<p>Then the serpent \u2014 something evil, wishing to tear that unity apart, and destroy that wholesomeness \u2014 came to trick Adam and Eve.<\/p>\n<p>The Devil\u2019s goal wasn\u2019t just to get them to eat the forbidden fruit \u2014 it was to destroy the harmony in the Garden of Eden and separate Adam and Eve from God.<\/p>\n<p> They feel ashamed when they realize they are naked after being separated. They feel shame because they know they have done something God didn\u2019t want. The Forbidden Fruit was the first sin.<\/p>\n<p>What does the Devil really want? The Devil wants us to have no shame in offending God and be forever separated from our Creator. If we don\u2019t feel shame about doing evil things and never ask for forgiveness, then we will never be reunited with God.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have a culture that is infected with the exact same evil. It is an evil that demands all of us feel no shame. It\u2019s accomplished by \u201cpushing boundaries\u201d \u2014 as the Left loves to say \u2014 of what they describe as rude, crude, and crass \u201cart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sam Smith is naked. Why should anyone care? This video is available for children on YouTube. What&#8217;s the problem? Have no shame! You should actually feel empowered by it all!<\/p>\n<p>Yet Smith\u2019s music video is really just the tip of the iceberg for this garbage. Evil is everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>We must all do our part to combat it. <\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s why I deleted all of Sam Smith\u2019s music. I will pray for him. I pray for him that whatever is causing him pain will be resolved.<\/p>\n<p>As for the larger culture, perhaps it\u2019s best we learn how to spot diabolical entertainment\u00a0 \u2014 using the definition described thanks to Sheen, May, and the Oxford Dictionary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is something diabolical permeating our culture? What does that term truly mean? How can we spot it? After recording my show yesterday, I couldn\u2019t stop thinking of the vulgarity in Sam Smith\u2019s music video and what it says about the decay in our society. While talking with my husband about the topic, he reminded me &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":231,"featured_media":1730401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4421,17180,14187],"class_list":["post-1830781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-culture","tag-diabolical","tag-permeating"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1730401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}