Posted on 07/26/2013 6:45:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
Last year, Entertainment Weekly magazine honored the arrival of a viciously anti-Catholic tilt on the FX show "American Horror Story: Asylum" by promoting how actress "Jessica Lange returns, this time as a terrifying nun."
Bigotry sells -- big -- in Tinseltown. This year, after that "Asylum" season aired, Hollywood has honored the show again by showering it with 17 Emmy nominations. There's a reason Hollywood revels in Catholic-bashing. The Catholic Church best represents for them an ancient organization with a creed, which refuses to genuflect before the modern god of La La Land: untrammeled whims of lust and greed.
Ryan Murphy, the gay-activist "genius" behind "Horror Story" and Fox's "Glee," proclaimed, "I'm just writing what I would like to see. I'm scared of aliens, and I'm scared of Nazis, and I'm scared of nuns. So it's the perfect stew of horror and fear." Does that comment make this man controversial? Not at all. Murphy was "mainstream" enough to host a $25,000-a-head Democratic fundraiser at his home in June of 2012 starring that staunch Christian, Barack Obama.
Murphy's warped psyche created a mental asylum named Briarcliff and put Lange's perverted and deranged character, "Sister Jude," in charge of the lunatics. The vomit came spewing from the first episode on Oct. 17, with a fantasy sequence where Sister Jude fantasized about stripping to a small red nightie and straddling Monsignor Howard, the priest assigned to the asylum, as they gazed into each other's eyes longingly.
In episode two, a nymphomaniac patient named Shelley taunted a psychiatrist: "I saw you flirting with Our Lady of Perpetual Virginity. Want to see my candy apple?" Later, the psychiatrist hired a prostitute who dressed up in a nun's habit. In an attempted exorcism, a demon-possessed man declared that Lange's Sister Jude had performed oral sex on 53 men before becoming a nun. "You were the town pump, weren't you, Sister?"
In episode three, the young nun Sister Mary Eunice became possessed by a demon, so she could have all the Catholic-taunting fun: "Your little bride of Christ has had an awakening, not to the Lord, but to the power of sex, lust, desire."
Later in the episode, a psychiatrist shattered a statue of the Virgin Mary as he yelled, "Whore, whore, whore!"
When the Catholic League tried to protest the show before it aired with full-page advertisements in the trade publications Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, they were spurned, and told their ad was -- ready? -- "inappropriate."
Not one character in "Asylum" is a hero. No one has a moral core. In the sixth episode, Monsignor Howard strangled a patient to death with a rosary -- after giving her last rites. In the seventh show, demonic Sister Mary Eunice slit a man's throat with a piece of a shattered mirror. Sister Jude was shown slashing her own wrists -- but that turned out to be yet another fantasy sequence. In the ninth episode, Sister Mary Eunice raped the monsignor, taking his virginity. All these consecrated characters eventually end up dead by murder, suicide or happily welcoming the "angel of death."
Perhaps the ugliest hour was "Unholy Night," the Christmas-themed episode on Dec. 5. Murphy explained that "American Horror Story" and Christmas don't go together, so he created a "homicidal Santa" character. This "Santa" was then thrown into the asylum, where he propositioned a fellow inmate: "What do you say we blow this Popsicle stand? Go savage a few elves and suck on each other?" When he was released from his chains, "Santa" threatened the nun in charge with rape, pledging to fulfill his fantasies and "jam this gigantic crucifix" up her rear end.
This is the kind of reception this hate-crime of a series gets from TV critics, if you can call them that. Matt Fowler of the IGN website for video gamers called the Santa episode "just good, sick fun," adding, "It seems a bit slight to call this episode a fun romp, seeing as how bloody and unhinged it was, but watching McShane (Santa) chew up the set and slash at people with glass tree-toppers was just gruesome enough to make me giddy."
Advertisers never stayed away. Lots of R-rated movies and M-rated video games were promoted to this audience. But advertisers also included Taco Bell, Subway, Burger King and the movies "Lincoln," "Frankenweenie" and "Wreck-It Ralph."
The most ridiculously out-of-place advertiser? ChristianMingle.com. It recalls the Bible verse, "Jesus wept."
In today's America, our leaders don't feed traditional Christians to the lions. Instead, our media elites persecute them by trashing everything they revere as the worst kind of terrifying, oppressive and hypocritical dung.
This is demented.
And it has been nominated for 17 Emmys.
I can’t wait to watch his new series “Saudi Arabian Horror Story: Asylum”
There are probably a number of freepers who are big fans of the series.
What??? "Glee" is produced by a faggot? Who would ever have guessed?
"I'm just writing what I would like to see. I'm scared of aliens, and I'm scared of Nazis, and I'm scared of nuns.
Miss Murphy is ill. Mentally and spiritually. His paranoia rules his life. That, and he's a fag.
He needs an exorcism.
I stop watching anything of Jessica Lange a long time ago.
I had high hopes for American Horror just byt the commercials.
But 15 minutes into the first episode I had enough. A rear full-body-view of a naked man masturbating for about 20 seconds was when I changed the channel and never went back.
It was hard to put my finger on what was wrong with it but this author nails it- There is no hero in this show. There is no good -vs- evil, there is just all evil.
I can’t think of any fans here- I have not read one freeper review that said they liked it
“Bigotry sells — big — in Tinseltown.”
As long as it’s against the “right” people.
Could you imagine them doing this with the Muslims?
Murphy is too gutless for that.
“This is demented. “
So is Lange. For many, many years.
Crap like this perhaps gives legitimacy to what the Muslims claim about this country about how we spread this sick culture to the rest of the globe.....on this, they do have a point.
Well OK I have to admit that I like that ‘Asylum’ series and Jessica Lange deserves props for the character she created.
But I can detect propaganda and with the grace of God not be effected by it.
With that qualification out of the way I really find it amusing how the propaganda spinners hidden away in the MSM pick such easy targets as Catholics who are instructed to forgive and turn the other cheek.
...and that criteria does not fit in with the ‘perfect voter’ block but they not only get a bye from the media they get an almost daily coverup of their anti-social, uncivilized behavior.
...and that is why I almost NEVER, EVER buy anything that’s advertised. It’s the only option I have left.
Never watched the show. never will. There is enough evil in this world without trying to conjure up more.
You could choose NOT to watch it. Just saying.
You should have put freepers in quotation marks
The author hints at but never really says the truth: because gays absolutely love to mock the Catholic church way more than any other religious group and their presence and influence in Hollywood lately seems really high. Why gays hate the catholic church I'll never know, because in my 12 years of catholic schooling and decades of church going I have never (Never!) heard a negative thing or anything at all, really, about gays. Not from the classroom or the pulpit. It's a non-issue in the catholic church except for the fact that there are a lot of closeted gay priests apparently who are working in the background to ruin everything.
Maybe that's it, they gays hate the church because they know there are a ton of gays in it and they feel it ought to be their church but it still isn't.
It is easier to symbolize Catholics through clothing. They are at war with all religions though. With the possible exceptions of Buddhism and Islam.
I’m glad I never watched this. I watched American Horror story. Everyone was flawed even the children.
I did not know the guy behind the show was a big Dem. That explains why all his characters were so messed up and met a horrible end.
If you read the right official documents, and even hand out in the right places, you will hear negative things about homosexual activity.
Based on the free rein they are given by their enablers acting as moderators, I disagree.
How much time do you spend reading comments in the religion forum?
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