More Innocent Times

I'm listening to the debate about the publishing of Princess Diana's death pictures. I have two thoughts about this. One is that of course people should not be so crass and mean. The other is that, however, society has already sunk so low (think child porn) that it almost doesn't matter. I'm not saying that "anything goes" but I'm thinking that the only way to inoculate from the scum who mask themselves as human and who take pleasure in embarrassing and painful pictures of people and their loved ones, is just not to care.

Jesus had his skin ripped off of him and was nailed naked to a cross to die. The martyrs that followed him had many terrible things done to them. And today there are many people who were victims of childhood or adult sexual abuse.

I remind people who have been sexually abused that while we don't dwell on those thoughts, that of course many of the Catholic martyrs who were virgins were raped and abused before they were roasted or otherwise killed. The Catholic Church has remained steadfast in their understanding that those who die in Jesus Christ are born renewed. Those martyrs were considered virgins and remain virgins, even if their bodies had been raped. I'm not minimizing at all the abuse that anyone has undergone - to the contrary, I am doing more to honor it than most secular therapists will, who wish to keep those who have been harmed in a mind set of being flawed and profaned. They are not flawed, they have been terribly hurt, yes, but their mind set can be restored to feeling the holiness of the temples of their bodies again.

So now I feel almost like, go ahead, print the picture of Princess Diana. Where she is now she is so far from caring about the pictures. And her sons. bless their hearts, are fine strong young men, and I think that they can condemn how crass people are today, yet detach themselves from feeling that any further damage is done to her.

Oh dear, the innocent days are so far gone that it's impossible for anyone under 40 to recall first hand. I wonder if we can go back to times when Bucky Dent posed, in a swimsuit, for "Playgirl" magazine in 1983? I don't remember seeing that pin up but I can imagine that it is much more innocent than the filth and garbage spewed throughout our so called "society" and "culture" today. (By the way, total coincidence, I know another Bucky who made it to be his business where he should not have been. God will "shine a mirror" onto that moment and not find it funny or justifiable!)