Posted on 11/30/2008 10:11:04 AM PST by Oyarsa
Disney accused by Catholic cleric of corrupting children's minds A leading Catholic cleric has launched a fierce attack on Disney, claiming it has corrupted children and encouraged greed.
By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs Correspondent Last Updated: 9:21PM GMT 29 Nov 2008
Christopher Jamison, the Abbot of Worth in West Sussex, has accused the corporation of "exploiting spirituality" to sell its products and of turning Disneyland into a modern day pilgrimage site.
He argues that it pretends to provide stories with a moral message, but has actually helped to create a more materialistic culture.
In a guide to helping people find happiness, the abbot, who starred in the hit-BBC series The Monastery, warns that society is in danger of losing its soul because of growing consumerism and the decline of religion.
He suggests that many people have become obsessed with work, sex and eating in an attempt to ignore their underlying unhappiness, and criticises corporations and industries that have benefited from promoting false notions of fulfilment.
Fr Jamison, who has been tipped as a contender to succeed Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor as the next Archbishop of Westminster, targets the behaviour of Disney in particular, which he says is "a classic example" of how consumerism is being sold as an alternative to finding happiness in traditional morality.
While he acknowledges that Disney stories carry messages showing good triumphing over evil, he argues this is part of a ploy to persuade people that they should buy Disney products in order to be "a good and happy family".
He cites films such as Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmatians that feature moral battles, but get into children's imaginations and make them greedy for the merchandise that goes with them.
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I hate to say it, but he sounds like a bit of nitwit.
There’s plenty to criticize Disney for, but having a happy ending, with good overcoming evil, in “101 Dalmations” isn’t the root of the problem.
Hopefully they’ll find a better candidate for Archbishop. The Church in England certainly needs it.
Disney shows almost ALWAYS show a disfunctional family. Fah on Disney.
Disney deliberately targets tweens. They also get kids interested in magic. Disney is pro homosexual.
Problem is Hollywood in general and emasculating homocentric Birkie cartoons for little kids
and no, I’m not joking
I agree with him. Look at Disney’s t.v. programs. They’re ALL turning into ‘witch’ scenarios. Good witches, mind you.. Just everyday people like you and me, but they all have special powers.
Maybe if this guy made the churches happier places, more folks and children would attend, instead of going to...gasp!...happy places like Disneyland.
I see it as more the fault of the PARENTS how their kids are turning out and what their priorites are. Blaming Disney for this is idiotic.
What’s a Birkie cartoon?
Disney is pro homosexual.
Yep! They have pervert week every year at Disney World.
Thank God I don’t have young children or grandkids cause I would never buy them anything Disney.
They are also anti hunting and anti firearms ownership.
the ones where the human interacting actors or leaders of the show all act like they should be working at a bookstore near an urban college campus or selling crystals at femmelesbo shoppe in Vermont.
that and the males are so gay and soft
and then they show cartoons that are weak and stupid and nauseatingly PC over and over...think Dora the Exlpora or most Noggin
I’d rather my kids watch road runner and see stuff get blown up than be softened into mushy meterosexuals
this is how many under 35 educated middle and upper middle class white boys got like they are...this drivel over and over...it started with Sesame Street
enough of that and one day your’re 30 and skinny as a rail, wearing girl jeans and chuck taylors and a 75 dollar t-shirts and some sort of “save something” bracelet, scared of guns and conservatives and religion...driving a Subaru or Prius and living in a home where your wife calls the shots and has no respect for you and your kids have no manners and think only slaves say yes sir or no ma’am.
this is how it all starts...
lol
***Maybe if this guy made the churches happier places, more folks and children would attend, instead of going to...gasp!...happy places like Disneyland.***
Happy places? Are you postulating that the Church set up theological McDonalds franchises? The Word of God and the Eucharist become Happy Meals?
I know: satan can look like the Hamburgler and God loses the beard and acquires red hair and a clown face. Maybe if this guy emphasized orthodoxy and the Word of God and enforced it in his Church, attendence would be up and the seminaries would be filled. Wait; in those dioceses that do this, they are.
I laughed then but have always felt since that the stupid Disney people were filling these mush brains with anti-gun and anti-hunting propaganda. Maybe it's worse than I thought.
Ah Ha! The truth slips out!
This Christopher Jamison is merely a bitter Marxist who worships Karl Marx instead of God. He is breaking the Tenth Commandment by envying the money that Disney makes on its toys.
Earlier in the day on Free Republic there was an article about Bill Ayers and his friends protesting the advertising of the eeeeevil capitalistic toy manufacturers. Is Christopher Jamison a friend of these people? ( Just wondering)
Ummmm I think Eaker has a save the gay whales for mohammad t-shirt......:o)
All jokin aside yer right ...dead on correct as usual !
LOL......you are a poet, Sir !
I don’t think a Catholic priest should be accusing anyone else of corrupting children.
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Hopefully they’ll find a better candidate for Archbishop. The Church in England certainly needs it.
I think that's the other nitwit. This is the Catholic nitwit.
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