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Rats alive? abc200 you must love the great American Mickey Mouse

Everyone knows Micky Mouse corrupts!



What fairytale? Cleric blasts Disney for corrupting kids' minds
BY Lauren Johnston
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, December 2nd 2008, 2:40 AM

Daily News PhotoillustrationA British cleric has accused Disney of corrupting kids' minds and creating greed and materialism. Related NewsArticles
If you thought the magical world of Walt Disney was all about happy endings, dreams coming true and good winning over evil – well think again!

It turns out those fair princesses and forest creatures singing in three-part harmony are little more than the animated cover for an underlying message of soul-sucking consumerism and immoral materialism.

Or at least, that’s according to one angry British Catholic cleric who makes the blistering claims in a new book that all but compares Mickey Mouse to the Antichrist.

Abbot Christopher Jamison accuses the Walt Disney Co. of “exploiting spirituality” to sell merchandise and of casting its theme parks as modern day places of pilgrimage, The Daily Telegraph reported.

"The message behind every movie and book, behind every theme park and T-shirt is that our children's world needs Disney … and thousands of families around the world buy into this deeper message as they flock to Disneyland," he said.

In Jamison’s view, Disney is putting a price tag on happiness and people can’t seem to get to the cash registers fast enough.

"Where once morality and meaning were available as part of our free cultural inheritance, now corporations sell them to us as products," he said.

Jamison’s book, “Finding Happiness,” focuses on monastic teachings and offers tips for living a simpler, more serene life. It was released in the U.K. this week by Liturgical Press and will be available in the United States in January.

Jamison is a well-known figure in Britain. He starred in the BBC series “The Monastery” and is in the running to serve as the next Archbishop of Westminster.

Disney is not the sole scourge of modern civilization, according to Jamison. He also comes down hard on the current media obsession with celebrity, which he says sparks jealousy among the masses.

"Envy tells us to stop facing the challenges of the present life and to live in some future fantasy. Such envy drives a large part of our consumer culture," he said.



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Whether Worth Abbey in Dorset — Jamison is its abbot — has been or will be affected by the credit crunch, I don't know, but now seems an appropriate moment to take stock of spiritual rather than material matters. This jewel of a book was written last Easter, when life was still a bowl of cherries, not a financial maelstrom. You don't have to be a Christian, by the way, to appreciate the sensible things that Father Christopher says about the truly important things in life and how we can attain them. All you need, he says, is an inquiring mind and a loving heart. I missed the BBC series The Monastery, set in Worth Abbey, but listening to the good abbot's cool, clear delivery (he was a headmaster before he became a monk), I can see why it was so popular. His teachings are based on those of the fourth-century desert fathers, founded by St Anthony and honed into shape by St Benedict, father of western monasticism, which sounds a bit dusty but isn't. Did you know that there were eight, not seven, deadly sins, the missing one being accidie, or apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue? Maybe greed, as we are constantly being told, isn't the root cause of the current financial meltdown; accidie sounds more like the culprit to me. And if you thought monks were too busy praying and making honey to keep abreast of modern life, think again. Father Christopher recommends you combat accidie with a podcast meditation.


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Of course CW knows about the 8 deadly sins!

The last especially.

By the way rodents are good to eat - the old practice of hunting squirral is being revived in the US, the poverty is so great.

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Mickey is an icon and bigger than speedy gonzalez

Video has gone - you need to be a rat to keep up not a timid mouse!

Video has com back!





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Its the other rats on this forum that are on drugs?



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