“She was made to feel special, like nothing she did could ever be wrong. She was encouraged to be open and free, to ignore the natural instincts which might protect her from predators. At a young age she was picked up and instructed in the art of pleasure, including self-pleasuring. She was told that conservative dress codes were oppressive and that she should feel able to express herself, be kinky! She moved from long to short skirts, hitched them high and lowered the buttons on her shirt. She was encouraged to pursue her desires and not to let nature get in the way. Pumped full of drugs from a young age, drugs which meant she could be used and discarded more easily, but when these failed, she found herself diseased and pregnant. More drugs, a trip to be ‘fixed’, tidied up, made presentable. She no longer knew what it was to be a woman, if anything at all. She had been picked up and put down so many times, it was all she knew. She was deadened by it all. In fleeting moments she glimpsed the promise of love, of someone willing to lay down their own life to protect her, but it was always the same – once they’d got what they wanted from her, they left. Every choice she made was informed by this cycle she was trapped in.”
I’m as happy as the next person to criticise Islam (especially if the next person is Gavin Ashenden) but this is not about Pakistani grooming gangs, it’s about life in Modern Britain for a young girl.
Western society is one big grooming gang, and Lily Allen (who spoke casually of the numerous abortions she has had), is a victim of it.
She, and many Lily’s besides (I’m looking at you Phillips), is the victim of a failed liberalism, a flattened hierarchy, a cancerous rights-based culture and that big win for men, Feminism.
Would Lily Allen be happier living in Christendom? Undoubtedly, yes.
But, happiness, like love, is a word that has been perverted such that we now use it to mean subjective satisfaction, rather than an objective eternal reality.
In Matthew 5:3-12, Christ proposes a vision of happiness which is the exact opposite of what everyone in the post-Christian West assumes it to be.
When Harvard University invited Mother Teresa to give a commencement address, she shocked them by
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Catholic Unscripted to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.