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Did the maker of this video have to rely on anti-Catholic imagery to get his theme across?

FormerLiberal on November 12, 2006 at 5:15 PM

Voodoo adopted some Catholic rituals and imagery. Did Ragnar have to rely on anti-voodoo imagery to get his theme across? Between that and the drumbeats, I’m inconsolably offended.

Great video here and the A-Team at jawa report. Thank you.

Did the maker of this video have to rely on anti-Catholic imagery to get his theme across?

FormerLiberal on November 12, 2006 at 5:15 PM

Hey FormalLiberal? I gotta say, I didn’t see or feel any anti-Catholic vibe here.

And I’d get pretty durn fired up if I thought it did have that.

Just my two cents.

I’m Ragnar from The Jawa Report. I did the video–and yes, it does take a ton of time. I don’t keep close track.

Two points:

1. Now, I thought I might get labeled a “racist” for using a song with drums in it, but the “anti-Catholic” angle had never even occurred to me. Other than that, I’ll leave it to you to sort out the symbolism.

2. I’ve never seen the video for the song, but I’m sure it’s fairly close to this one in the imagery.

As for claims of Freemasonry-inspired symbolism: the idea that the eye-and-the-pyramid are Masonic symbols is an incorrect if popular myth. The eye-and-the-pyramid play absolutely no role in Masonic symbolism. Clearly, the author included the symbol because (a) it invokes money and (b) the Egyptian-style motif looks like an occult symbol. It is true that some of the Founding Fathers were members of the Freemasons, though the actual number has likely been greatly exaggerated by some hyperbolic authors.

Sout al-Kuffar (of All Your Fakes Are Belong To Us fame) has another startingly effective moodpiece to get you all fired up for the unenviable task of cleaning out the current GOP House and Senate leadership. For old time’s sake,……

You will see that when they show “The Brotherhood,” they are in front of the eye-and-pyramid symbol from the dollar bill.

This symbol is widely believed to be Masonic imagery. It is a fact that Washington and many of the Founders were Freemasons.

The robes, the candles — it’s like a Masonic ritual, or perhaps kind of like the Omegas in “Animal House.” The catacombs, the sacrifice: It’s all occultish and mysterious, you see.

The suggestion being made is that the Republican leadership in Congress has become like some kind of secret cult, a controlling fraternity dedicated to its own power and self-enrichment.

Given this interpretation — and trust me, I’m the guy who deconstructed the “Call Me, Harold” ad — no insult to Catholics was intended, and none should be taken.

I do see the anti-Catholic imagery too, but you’d have to be pretty sensitive to read it that way. All the bad guys are monks (Catholic monks). The Illuminati reference is also there. Everything is a plot from Rome or some horsepuckey like that.

Anyway, I can see it, but I don’t choose to believe it was really anti-Catholic. Just a convenient bit of history to use to make one’s point.

And with that said, I think the small lesson to be learned from that is not to get one’s panties in a wad over some supposed slight, and a possible inability to find the humor in even the darkest references or situations.

All in all, a good video, and a thoughtful subject. Now I want folks in charge who intend to win in Iraq, and continue to fight and win everywhere radical Islam rears its ugly head. If the Dhimmicrats can do so, then good for them. If they can’t (and I don’t believe they can), then I want them crushed before the country goes under the nuclear fire which is surely headed this way. So get to it, both of you.

“The Hell this ain’t the Most Important Foxhole in the World. I’m in it!”

Subsunk

Nor do I think Republicans can safely overlook, among the causes of their electoral defeat, John McCain’s having authored “campaign finance reform” legislation that shut down conservative activists in the last six weeks of the campaign. And there are the rulers who voted for his legislation, and the ruler who signed and made it a law. You’re to be coddled, you’re to be taxed, you’re to be controlled, you’re to be replaced by masses of immigrants, and you’re to shut up and accept all of it, until your own country and town look like dead Europe.

Your Nanny State must be defeated by every prudent means. It is the will of God, who is Foresighted, Forewarning.

Nice vid.