In one day, the video for the new Miley Cyrus single has garnered over 25 million views, and counting, on YouTube.
Now, I cannot stop thinking about Our Lord when He said: “And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out. It is better for thee with one eye to enter into the kingdom of God, than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire.” That’s just how serious the deliberate act of viewing evil really is. One must maintain “custody of the eyes.” In other words: control over our faculties. This is partly instinctual, and partly learned. When children watch a scary movie, and something unexpectedly pops out of a shadowy doorway, their first reaction is to turn away or cover their eyes. This is an in-born survival mechanism of protection. As adults, either because of our religious upbringing, or simply because of a universal moral truth, we would hopefully never allow very young children (or any child for that matter) to watch pornography. But, this is changing, what is currently considered harmless entertainment, in reality, is pornography. Therefore, there must now be a radical transformation in terms of what we regard as banal amusement and what we regard as porn. Like the blind man at Bathsaida, who washed the mud and spittle from his eyes, there must be a through cleansing for all of us. This is both literal and figurative: the physical eyes must be flushed out, and the soul of every Man must also be thoroughly expunged of all darkness and evil. Only then, we will be fit to one day hope to look upon the Glory of God.