{"id":1837722,"date":"2023-02-07T07:34:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T12:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1837722"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:43:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T12:43:38","slug":"in-a-culture-full-of-sam-smiths-christianity-is-the-real-subversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-a-culture-full-of-sam-smiths-christianity-is-the-real-subversion\/","title":{"rendered":"In A Culture Full Of Sam Smiths, Christianity Is The Real Subversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fin-a-culture-full-of-sam-smiths-christianity-is-the-real-subversion%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=1837722&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>Hollywood is desperate for new ideas. Take Sunday\u2019s Grammy Awards, for example. If there were ever a spectacle that could simultaneously be described as demonic and trite, it would be Sam Smith\u2019s performance of \u201cUnholy,\u201d which rang the final death knell for the satanic-ritual-as-art trope. <\/p>\n<p>It was written by Isabelle Rosini, a Federalist contributor. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/06\/the-grammys-embrace-of-lgbt-politics-and-satanism-isnt-just-gross-its-boring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Boring as it was unoriginal<\/a>. Stiletto-clad devils? Latex pants? Whips? Women in cages Bursts of flame to signify \u2014 in case it wasn\u2019t clear enough \u2014 that Smith was singing from the pit of hell? \u201cBeen there, done that,\u201d The artists range from <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/29\/once-praised-for-appeal-to-kids-lil-nas-x-doubles-down-on-raunchy-satanic-messaging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lil Nas X<\/a> To <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wagn8Wrmzuc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lady Gaga<\/a> Would you agree?<\/p>\n<p>It all went sour. Despite the media\u2019s attempts at running interference \u2014 with all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/sam-smith-unholy-grammys-satanism-panic-gop-1234674687\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The typical<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/music\/news\/ted-cruz-slams-sam-smith-kim-petras-grammys-evil-performance-1235514438\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Republicans<\/a>\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/sam-smith-unholy-grammy-performance-republicans-kim-petras-1779232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pounce<\/a> framing \u2014 the awards show was decidedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/tv\/story\/2023-02-05\/grammys-2023-review-beyonce-loses-aoty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Uninteresting<\/a>This points to a larger crisis in the arts world. The American public will not be shocked by anything it produces, including quasi-satanic Orgies. <\/p>\n<p>Modern American culture has become a willing collaborator to the arts world \u2014 from Hollywood to the Oval Office, from TikTok to the public school classroom \u2014 thanks to the ascendancy of leftist orthodoxy in cultural and political institutions. If the political and wider media establishments support its values (sexual perversion or antireligious bigotry), art can no longer be subversive. <\/p>\n<p>So art is no longer interesting or subversive. Instead, the arts world and the establishment have merged \u2014 First Lady Jill Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/06\/style\/jill-biden-grammys.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Present<\/a> at the award show after all \u2014 producing mediocre content according to its tastes. If art is to be subversive again it must reject modern culture&#8217;s most valued values. It must reject the idols of left, including sexual deviancy and bitter racism. It must throw away <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/01\/06\/wokeness-attack-on-princeton-statue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wokeness<\/a>. Expect a continuation of this message until it has a new message. <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/2148444\/the-grammys-are-fighting-to-regain-its-disappearing-audience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mass exodus<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Reactionaries who really want to buck establishment tastes are congregating not in an art museum or mosh pit \u2014 but, ironically, at church. As Julia Yost described last summer in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/09\/opinion\/nyc-catholicism-dimes-square-religion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">op-ed<\/a> The New York Times, titled \u201cNew York\u2019s Hottest Club Is the Catholic Church,\u201d The pandemic-weary Manhattanites are rebelling against leftist orthodoxy, embracing traditional morality (and the Catholic Church)<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the year that Black Lives Matter protests and lockdowns were over, progressivism was feeling hegemonic within the social spaces occupied primarily by urban young intellectuals. Transgressive glamour was given to traditional morality. Disaffection with the progressive moral majority \u2014 combined with Catholicism\u2019s historic ability to accommodate cultural subversion \u2014 has produced an in-your-face style of traditionalism. This is not your grandmother\u2019s church \u2014 and whether the new faithful are performing an act of theater or not, they have the chance to revitalize the church for young, educated Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenon has been noticed by Tim Dillon, comedian. \u201cAll the cool kids now are unwoke and some of them are going back to Christianity because it\u2019s the only way to be rebellious \u2014 because everybody\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing Hollywood can produce anymore that will shock the American public, quasi-satanic orgies and all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":1837725,"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":[546],"tags":[5695,4421,5001,6912,14434,17859],"class_list":["post-1837722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-christianity","tag-culture","tag-real","tag-sam","tag-smiths","tag-subversion"],"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\/1837722","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\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1837725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}