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Disillusioned
Guest
I thought it was rather eye-opening that a Catholic radio host was led up the garden path (is that what you say in the States ?) by a man who seriously wanted us to consider Bram Stoker’s Dracula as some kind of spiritually enlightening story.Worse too, he went on about the latest “Van Helsing” film.
Now when he began going on about the sacred host which in the depraved book is used quite illegally and talismanically to defeat the vampire, I thought the moderator was going to tell him not to confuse fiction with reality.But she didn’t!
It’s no prejudice of mine, but I really think that just because every bodice clad maiden wears a crucifix , and there’s as much garlic as holy water, it does not mean we are reading or watching anything of spiritual import at all.
Literature now consumed by Catholics has gone utterly downhill-the line between fantastic nonsense and faith itself has not been respected by someone like this caller.
Otherwise he was having a laugh at the expense of other people who were concerned with far more important things.
There have been other instances where this hostess has really lost control, but I suggest to everyone else that Van Helsing is a sadistic romp, not a spiritual treatise and in England, Dracula is dated sexually metaphorical and not worth most people’s effort.
Nowadays I don’t think anyone knows the basic difference between Christianity and folkish superstition.
Now when he began going on about the sacred host which in the depraved book is used quite illegally and talismanically to defeat the vampire, I thought the moderator was going to tell him not to confuse fiction with reality.But she didn’t!
It’s no prejudice of mine, but I really think that just because every bodice clad maiden wears a crucifix , and there’s as much garlic as holy water, it does not mean we are reading or watching anything of spiritual import at all.
Literature now consumed by Catholics has gone utterly downhill-the line between fantastic nonsense and faith itself has not been respected by someone like this caller.
Otherwise he was having a laugh at the expense of other people who were concerned with far more important things.
There have been other instances where this hostess has really lost control, but I suggest to everyone else that Van Helsing is a sadistic romp, not a spiritual treatise and in England, Dracula is dated sexually metaphorical and not worth most people’s effort.
Nowadays I don’t think anyone knows the basic difference between Christianity and folkish superstition.