Is Something Diabolical Permeating Our Culture?

Candace OwensJanuary 31, 2023

Is there something sinister in our culture? What does the term actually mean? What does it really mean?

After Recording my show yesterday, I couldn’t stop thinking of the vulgarity in Sam Smith’s music video and what it says about the decay in our society. When I was talking to my husband about this topic, he reminded of a sermon from Venerable Fulton Sheen on the Devil that he had listened too over the weekend.

My husband and I also discussed the timeless lesson found in Adam and Eve’s fall from the Garden of Eden.

Grouped together alongside the current definition of diabolical — before the Left changes it — I perhaps we can answer the questions posted above.

“What is the diabolic from the purely psychiatric point of view?” Sheen, a late-Roman Catholic bishop, once . “Dr. Rollo May analyzes the word diabolic, it comes from the Greek words dia and balime. Dia-balime is to tear apart, rend asunder. Anything, therefore, that breaks pattern, that destroys unity, that corrupts gestalt, produces discord, that is the diabolical. Now, there has been a great increase of the diabolic. Notice for example the discord in the Church, the discord in religious communities, the discord among the laity regards the Church, discord in the clergy. All these are manifestations of a spirit of the diabolic that surrounds us. Now this psychiatrist [Dr. May] analyzes the way in which the diabolic works. And he mentions three: First love of nudity. Secondly, violence, aggressiveness. Thirdly, split personalities, no inner peace, disjointed minds.”

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Does anything explain Sam Smith’s music video better than that description? His new video is truly diabolical.

It’s a love of nudity. It’s a love of violence. It even has a split personality.

Sam Smith, once a normal person, now identifies with ‘non-binary.’ He has a split personality. He doesn’t know what he is. He’s everything. He doesn’t have an identity. That’s what being ‘non-binary’ It is possible to effectively use I don’t know who I am. I think I could be everyone and anything at the same time.

He puts nudity on full display — in an aggressive and violent manner, no less — in the “Not Here To make Friends” Video music

According to Bishop Sheen (the psychiatrist), that’s diabolic.

Per The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary, the definition of diabolical What does it mean? “morally bad and evil; like a Devil.”

This description leads me to Monday’s conversation with my husband.

“Why is Sam Smith doing this? His music is already great. Why does he have to stoop to this level and force us to say goodbye to his music? Why must we delete his songs from our library?” I wondered a lot.

My husband, who was a theologian in school, started to talk about the Garden of Eden using the Bible. Everybody — even non-Christians — knows that in the Bible, The Garden of Eden was wholesome and full. It was peaceful, and it was full of unity.

Then the serpent — something evil, wishing to tear that unity apart, and destroy that wholesomeness — came to trick Adam and Eve.

The Devil’s goal wasn’t just to get them to eat the forbidden fruit — it was to destroy the harmony in the Garden of Eden and separate Adam and Eve from God.

They feel ashamed when they realize they are naked after being separated. They feel shame because they know they have done something God didn’t want. The Forbidden Fruit was the first sin.

What does the Devil really want? The Devil wants us to have no shame in offending God and be forever separated from our Creator. If we don’t feel shame about doing evil things and never ask for forgiveness, then we will never be reunited with God.

Now we have a culture that is infected with the exact same evil. It is an evil that demands all of us feel no shame. It’s accomplished by “pushing boundaries” — as the Left loves to say — of what they describe as rude, crude, and crass “art.”

Sam Smith is naked. Why should anyone care? This video is available for children on YouTube. What’s the problem? Have no shame! You should actually feel empowered by it all!

Yet Smith’s music video is really just the tip of the iceberg for this garbage. Evil is everywhere.

We must all do our part to combat it.

And that’s why I deleted all of Sam Smith’s music. I will pray for him. I pray for him that whatever is causing him pain will be resolved.

As for the larger culture, perhaps it’s best we learn how to spot diabolical entertainment — using the definition described thanks to Sheen, May, and the Oxford Dictionary.