A boycott of the Catholic Church, promoted by Independent Newspapers, the Irish Times and RTE, was roundly ignored by the citizenry all over Ireland last weekend.
Certainly churches in Newbridge where I attended mass had larger than usual congregations.
The adoration chapel in Newbridge where one can go to meet the Lord in the communion host, was actually full when I dropped by.
Adoration can be a somewhat neglected form of worship among the general public.
When I saw there there were no available seats in the Adoration Chapel, my eyes widened.
There are failed boycotts.
And then there are failllllllllllllllllllllled boycotts.
And then there's this one.
The Independent Newspapers, Irish Times, RTE boycott was an abject failure.
Not their first failed boycott, mind.
But their greatest failed boycott.
Independent Newspapers, the Irish Times and RTE have in recent years tried to talk up numerous boycotts of the Catholic Church.
John Cooney of Independent Newspapers attempted to promote a boycott of the sacraments last year.
He failed.
The Irish Times had also repeatedly suggested a boycott of the collection plate might be on the cards.
Failed.
All three media groups recently gave massive prominence to a story about a website promoting resignations from the Catholic Church.
The website claimed to have received thousands of visitors the moment it was launched.
Ah yes.
Thousands of itchy Refresh Bar fingers on the hands of those running the website.
(cf: Visitor numbers to Johnston Press/Leinster Leader websites.)
Those of us involved with Internet media know that website figures are routinely falsified by their promoters.
All that is necessary is for the promoter to hit the Refresh Bar key on their computer and the website will record a visit.
No new website (or Youtube segment for that matter) gets thousands of visitors within a day.
It can't happen.
But their promoters can hit their Refresh Bars ten thousand times in a day.
That can happen alright.
Hoo baby.
Hilarious no.
So the Irish Times was maintaining that this unknown anti Catholic website had been visited by thousands of people.
And I'm Captain Kirk.
Independent Newspapers publicised similar claims.
RTE did likewise, featuring the website's supposed founders (Hint: we must postulate that the website was actually set up by the anti Catholic media groups themselves), featuring the supposed founders I say, a collection of smooth talking empty headed pseudo urbanites, parading them in reverent tones as though they'd actually made some contribution to our culture or our world, raising them high on the altars of prime time chat shows through the largesse of a television station financed by compulsory Stalinist taxation on... me.
What was it Joe Stalin and the old style commies used to say?
"James Healy will pay us the licence fee with which we will make programmes designed to callumniate the church he believes in so that we can ensure Ireland remains enslaved to Satan."
Something like that.
In any case the website failed.
Failed to make any real impression.
Failed to get thousands of people to download and submit its "application forms" for resignation from the Catholic Church.
Failed even when liberal leftist infiltrator Archbishop Diarmuid Martin with much fanfare issued a formal certificate of resignation to a person who submitted one such application form to him.
A formal certificate from the Archbishop no less.
A formal certificate noting that the Archbishop hoped the church as a whole could learn from this person who had just resigned from it.
Show me the way to the vomitorium.
All this even though a resignation form has never at any time in human history been necessary for anyone wishing to leave the Catholic Church.
You just leave.
And good luck to you.
Failed.
Failed.
Failed.
All the Independent Newspapers, Irish Times and RTE sponsored boycotts and their attendant divide-and-conquer publicity campaigns.
But they don't give up, do they!
They learn.
Not the honest lessons of their wrongdoing.
No, they don't learn those.
That's not the sort of people they are.
They learn different lessons from each failed attentat against the ancient faith.
The only lessons they learn or seek to learn, relate to how they might perpetrate even greater wrongdoing in their next attack.
Anyhoo.
The latest boycott attempt was more subtle than the previous blatently bigoted ones.
Let me be clear at the risk of repeating myself.
It's not that the anti Catholic media groups are learning from their mistakes.
At least not in the sense that they have become capable of admitting their own virulent evil.
No.
They have merely been honing their bigotries.
Yeah.
Just a little more subtle every time.
For this time Independent Newspapers, the Irish Times and RTE had a stalking horse whom they used to call for their boycott.
The stalking horse was an 82 year old woman called Jennifer Sleeman.
Jennifer Sleeman is a supposed convert to Catholicism whose son is a monk.
The perfect Trojan Horse.
This time the atheistic media groups didn't allow their boycott to be a nebulous suggestion floating on the wind as they had done in the past.
This time a specific date was announced for the boycott from the word go, with Jennifer Sleeman making her impassioned plea on the cover of the Irish Times a full two months in advance.
During the two months a steady stream of promotional articles and reports were disseminated to maximise public support.
Nor was the cause left unspecific.
Not just a general repudiation of Catholicism.
No.
This cleverly manipulated and staged boycott was to be in support of the ordination of women priests.
Clever eh?
Divide and conquer!
I think that's the motto of the Irish Times, isn't it?
By the way, Independent Newspapers motto is: "We are Tony O'Reilly worshipping coke heads."
And RTE's is: "You pay for us regardless of whether you watch us or endorse our bigotries or not. Nyah, ha, ha, G Force."
Catchy.
So for two months Independent Newspapers, the Irish Times and RTE fed us every manner of lies about Jennifer Sleeman's boycott.
Their first lie being that they maintained it was Jennifer Sleeman's boycott and not their own.
Their second lie, just as crassly and insistently proclaimed, was that the boycott call had received widespread popular support.
They lied, and they lied, and just when you thought they could lie no more, they lied again.
The lies proliferated.
It did no good.
A week before the boycott was due to take place they got scared.
No popular movement had coalesced around their stalking horse, Jennifer Sleeman.
More and more Catholics were deriding the boycott as yet another piece of media sponsored anti Catholic bigotry.
The game was all but up.
Independent Newspapers, the Irish Times and RTE shifted tack.
Rather than admit that their boycott had failed, they began to place news stories suggesting that some Catholics would support the boycott by wearing green ribbons to mass.
This was a perfect piece of snivelling evil.
Because it would allow Independent Newspapers/Irish Times/RTE activists who wouldn't normally be within an asses roar of a Church, to go along and showboat themselves as supporting the now near non existent boycott which they themselves had been striving unsuccessfully to orchestrate, and which they themselves otherwise could never have meaningfully supported since they're not mass goers anyway, allow them to take part in their own simulacrum of a boycott of a religious ceremony, allow them to support a boycott of the Church by actually attending Church, attending it of course without actually believing in anything so arcane as, er, God.
Still no groundswell of public opinion arose around the latest manoeuvre.
The green ribbons looked to be attracting no takers.
There was one more card left to play for Independent Newspapers, the Irish Times and RTE as their boycott collapsed around them.
They claimed that members of the public were about to begin a letter writing campaign to their Bishops in support of the boycott.
Letter writing campaigns are yet another perfect tool for the atheistic left wing.
Because there's no way of knowing if the letters they contrive were written by real people.
And then Sunday arrived.
And time was up.
And the boycott was upon us.
And the boycott didn't happen.
There was no boycott.
No green ribbons.
No empty churches.
Oh maybe Jennifer Sleeman and a few Irish Times fembos who don't attend mass anyway, stayed home and indulged themselves in their fantasy that the country had risen at their behest to boycott our beautiful and true religion.
And RTE did find one prearranged green ribbon wearing feminist waiting for their prearranged camera at Lucan church.
But that was it.
I'm telling you folks.
I was there at the weekend.
The churches were full.
Lovely young people.
Lovely old people.
Lovely unemployed.
Lovely workers.
Lovely families.
Lovely unmarrieds.
Lovely Africans.
Lovely filippinos.
Lovely travelling people.
Lovely stay at home types.
Lovely athletes.
Lovely cripples.
All God's children.
Apparently word of the Independent Newspapers, Irish Times, RTE boycott of the Catholic Church hadn't quite reached heaven.
