Is David Blaine recruiting for the Catholics?
May 10th, 2006Watching David Blaine’s endurance stunt, in which he damn near killed himself, I wondered, could this be good for proponants of self mortification? With Time Magazine’s recent cover story on Opus Dei exposing the practice of whipping the shit out of yourself for the love of Jesus, maybe Blaine is inadvertantly promoting personal mutilation to the masses.
To quote the Happy Catholic,
To serve others requires mortification, a continuing realisation of the presence of God, and a forgetting of self.
Now, this is utter bullshit, meant to humiliate and guilt people into tithe paying, sexual repression and obedient service. The Pope, in his guilded palace and Prada shoes, clearly doesn’t practice this type of torture on himself.
At least Blaine gets a likely lucrative TV deal out of it. But the last thing we need is a big public spectacle making it sexy to beat yourself to a pulp for no apparent reason.
pop into your head, then perhaps you shouldn’t bother. If you empower someone who looks like Marilyn Manson at 80 to inform your reproductive decisions, your gene pool is not likely meant to survive to the next generation anyway. The Catholic church is so obsessed with outpacing the population of Muslims, it can’t bear the thought of a single drop of life juice wasted.