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| The devil pays as much attention to the Russians as to the Americans |
| 2023-03-03 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] On the one hand, people call on Satan and openly betray their souls to him, on the other hand, they refuse to believe in the picture of the world in which he is real. If they believed, they could be off the hook and run to God. Judging by the evidence of Tradition, Satan had many such griefs. So it looks like he has now secured himself by breeding a new type of adepts. Networks on both sides of the ocean continue to discuss the performance of "non-binary" Grammy winner Sam Smith, who won the competition by performing a number with explicitly and emphatically satanic symbolism. This speech - and his victory in the competition - caused a rather alarmed reaction from conservative commentators in the US itself, who also drew attention to the fact that the well-known pharmaceutical company Pfizer was the sponsor. The commercial interests of pharmacists here, however, are understandable. Transgenderism, when a person first pays (by himself or with the help of the state) for a mutilating “sex reassignment” operation, and then drinks heavy hormonal drugs all his life, this is just a gold mine for manufacturers of substances that in this case do not dare to call “drugs.” Of course, the answer to the anxiety of Christians was expected - but what is the problem? This is just a funny entertainment show, people are having fun fooling around, jumping and jumping, singing and dancing, wiggling their hips and making faces. And if you don't like it, don't watch it. But such explanations are difficult to accept. Firstly, there are things that cannot be joked with. If, say, someone dresses up in a Nazi uniform with a swastika on his sleeve and goes out into the street like that, he is unlikely to be helped by talking about the fact that this is all a funny joke and prank. This joke is not appreciated. Why? Because National Socialism is perceived as the ultimate evil, with which they do not flirt, do not flirt, and do not joke. The devil in the Christian picture of the world is not a comic character, it is the bearer of ultimate evil. Even for people who do not share this picture of the world and see only a symbol in Satan, this symbol has a completely unambiguous meaning. This is the spirit of lies and malice. In the symbolic message that is conveyed by references to hell and Satan, in any case, there is nothing good. Moreover, some time ago it never occurred to the participants of song contests to imitate demon worship on stage. This is a sign of a certain shift - and a scale shift. If we had recently told the Americans that they would openly worship the statue of Baphomet, they would have taken it for an empty horror story. Nevertheless, flirting with Satan is becoming more and more fashionable - as it was revealed, for example, with the recent scandal around the Balenciaga fashion house. How do lovers of dressing up as devils themselves see it? Those of them who say that Satan is only a symbol, and they do not believe in anything supernatural. It is likely that when they claim such a thing, they are (almost) not lying. The United States has long been the scene of what has been called "cultural wars" - between traditional, family, Christian, hardworking America, on the one hand, and progressive forces that see it as a bastion of patriarchal oppression, sanctimonious morality and hatred of unfortunate minorities - racial and sexual . In the last decade, the confrontation has become especially acute, which a number of American commentators call the "cold civil war." In this war, the entertainment industry, as it immediately catches the eye, is powerfully on the side of progressive forces, obsessively promoting propaganda of gross perversions, even in cartoons for the smallest. Flirting with Satanism is, on the one hand, a way to emphasize: “I am mine! I'm progressive! I also hate these stupid rednecks with Bibles!”, on the other hand, an attempt to destroy the connection between generations, forcing young people to dance to music that will cause fundamental, religious rejection from their parents. So maybe they really (almost) don't believe in the real Satan. Another thing is that it doesn't change much. God is looking for close, trusting relationships with people, it is important for Him to be believed in Him. The devil does not require his followers to believe in him; his goal is to destroy people, and not to make friends with them at all. Therefore, as Charles Baudelaire remarked: "The devil's greatest trick is to convince you that he does not exist." In this case, it was brilliantly successful - people, on the one hand, call on Satan and openly betray their souls to him, on the other hand, they refuse to believe in the picture of the world in which he is real. If they believed, they could be off the hook and run to God. Judging by the evidence of Tradition, Satan had many such griefs. So it seems that now he has secured himself by bringing out a new type of adherents - materialistic Satanists. But it must be said that Satan has many different tricks. Another of them is to inspire us that he can deceive and seduce anyone - but not us. These are unfortunate self-castrated eunuchs in a hat with horns, Satan leads by the nose as he wants - but nothing of the kind threatens us. Satanists are our military and political opponents, and Satan does not dare to show his nose to us. Alas, this is not so. If it doesn't occur to you to jump in a red tights and a hat with horns, this does not mean that you are invulnerable. Our faith says that Satan hates and tries to destroy not only them but also us. And he is resourceful enough to find his own approach to everyone. He is an experienced and cunning deceiver and, to use such an unbiblical word, a provocateur. We roughly know what provocation looks like in a confrontation between people: an opponent who cannot reach out and shoot you in the foot uses his knowledge of psychology and ingenuity to make you shoot yourself in the foot. And what makes you most vulnerable in such cases is the careless confidence in your invulnerability. The devil pays no less attention to the Russians than to the Americans - and, alas, one can see flirting with hell here too. Take, for example, the recent song by Vika Tsyganova: “And mother Russia will open the gates to hell for you!”. It is clear that neither the singer herself, nor those who composed these spiritually uplifting poems for her, do not believe in any hell, but use this word as a symbol - in this case, as a symbol of nuclear war, which the artist threatens the "reptilians". It is also clear that the corresponding buttons, thank God, are not at all in the hands of popular singers. But hell doesn't understand jokes. If you call him, you give him the right to come. As it was not necessary to call the film "First in Hell". No need to flirt with the infernal. It's like a contract - whether you sign it as a joke, or drunk, or "not meaning it," you sign it and you will deal with it. Don't open the gates to hell. Because hell is always trying to break through to the earth - through them, through us, through whom it will succeed. Therefore, as the apostle says: "Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour" (1 Pet. 5:8). March 2, 2023 Sergey Khudiev |
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