In a recent review of Oppenheimer which appeared in Crisis, Editor Eric Sammons found it “baffling” than any Catholic could watch the sex scenes in that movie without committing sin, “because it is always a sin to watch such a scene. Always, full stop.” To back up his claim, Sammons cites the Catechism of the Catholic Church on pornography:

Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties. It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others. It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense. Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials. (#2354)

In order to use the Catechism to back up his claim, Sammons would have to show that Oppenheimer is pornography, which he does not do. Instead of proving his point, Sammons engages in verbal sleight of hand which obscures the main issue, which is that pornography is an occasion of sin. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia:

Occasions of sin are external circumstances—whether of things or persons—which either because of their special nature or because of the frailty common to humanity or peculiar to some individual, incite or entice one to sin. It is important to remember that there is a wide difference between the cause and the occasion of sin. The cause of sin in the last analysis is the perverse human will and is intrinsic to the human composite. The occasion is something extrinsic and, given the freedom of the will, cannot, properly speaking, stand in causal relation to the act or vicious habit which we call sin. There can be no doubt that in general the same obligation which binds us to refrain from sin requires us to shun its occasion. Qui tenetur ad finem, tenetur ad media (he who is bound to reach a certain end is bound to employ the means to attain it). https://newadvent.org/cathen/11196a.htm

Theologians distinguish between proximate and remote occasions of sin, but they are not of one mind on how to define the terms:

De Lugo defines proximate occasion (De poenit. disp. 14, n. 149) as one in which men of like calibre for the most part fall into mortal sin, or one in which experience points to the same result from the special weakness of a particular person. The remote occasion lacks these elements. All theologians are agreed that there is no obligation to avoid the remote occasions of sin both because this would, practically speaking, be impossible and because they do not involve serious danger of sin. https://newadvent.org/cathen/11196a.htm

Oftentimes the distinction between proximate and remote occasions of sin is numerical. Getting drunk is a sin. A bar may be an occasion of sin. If your job entails going to a bar and drinking with clients, and you get drunk four out of the ten times you drink with them, you should avoid that bar as a remote occasion of sin. If you get drunk nine out of the ten times you go there, you should avoid the bar as a proximate or near occasion of sin. Deliberately frequenting a near occasion of sin is itself sinful, unless you have a sufficiently serious reason, which may be the case if it is part of your job. On the other hand, filmmakers should not put people into an occasion of sin for no good reason, which is clearly what Director Christopher Nolan did in Oppenheimer, where the sex scenes are gratuitous and could have been avoided. But the relatively minor nature of the sex scenes in Oppenheimer militates against viewing the film as pornographic in its intention. That does not mean that it could not be, for some, a near occasion of sin which should be avoided. It is a judgement call for individual viewers to make, knowing their own weakness in this area.

Father Hardon says that pornography is always a near occasion of sin. Is Oppenheimer pornography? No. The sex scenes in Oppenheimer make it objectively speaking at this point in history a remote occasion of sin, which means that at another time and under other subjective circumstances, it could be a near occasion of sin for some. It is most certainly not “a sin to watch” Oppenheimer as Sammons claims.

Sammons’ claim that “it is always a sin to watch such a scene. Always, full stop” is forceful but inaccurate. In warning his readers against laxity, he should not overstate his case. Once we introduce the proper terminology into this discussion, Sammons’ claim reveals itself an overstatement and nothing more than an extended exercise in virtue signaling which places unnecessary burdens on the consciences of those who take his magazine seriously.
https://crisismagazine.com/editors-desk/a-movie-isnt-worth-sinning-over

I've been proposing a discussion of the Logos of sexuality in Iran for years now. Inshallah, this scandal and the imminent Farsi translation of Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control will bring it about before the CIA uses this as an excuse for another sex-based mass uprising.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-66349073

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Jardula gets to the bottom of RFK's self-immolation over Israel. It because we have internalized the Holocaust Narrative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7tNmCnrG7M

If your goal in life is to be a sex robot, you may be replaced by a real sex robot.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12341111/Sexy-AI-generated-influencers-silently-swarming-social-media-fake-names-backstories-one-goal-desperate-men.html

Jewish privilege

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63899

The reason for all of the Catholic virtue signaling over the sex scenes in Oppenheimer is the inability of conservative Catholic chest thumpers to face the real issue which the film brings up, namely, Jewish control of the Manhattan Project then and of our foreign policy now, as NATO slouches toward nuclear war with Russia.

Dennis Prager admits that the ADL creates anti-Semitism. (at 7:44)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHYuKXI4LZo

Hillard wrote the foreword to the French edition of The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit. No Jew was ever a citizen in any European country before Napoleon emancipated them. Two hundred years of experience shows that those Catholic countries were right and Napoleon was wrong. Does anyone seriously think that Merrick Garland or Antony Blinken is capable of representing the interests of the American people?

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/08/07/france-moves-to-ban-far-right-party-for-anti-semitism_6083926_7.html

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What's Obama really trying to tell us here?

https://nypost.com/2023/08/12/barack-obama-told-ex-i-make-love-to-men-daily-but-in-the-imagination/

If Dennis Prager says it, it must be true.

https://twitter.com/iansmithfitness/status/1689637383715876864

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Leave it to Rolling Stone to promote a completely insignificant group so that Rolling Stone can keep the failing race narrative afloat.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/nazis-new-england-white-ethnostate-1234801707/

Things like this make it hard to take Jewish complaints seriously.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bradley-cooper-prosthetic-nose-leonard-bernstein-maestro-jewface-rcna100137

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Jews are victims of Jewish privilege. As Dennis Prager has pointed out, the younger generation of Jews doesn't do anything. This means that they don't act, in every sense of the word.

https://lamag.com/film/oppenheimer-golda-maestro-non-jewish-actors-playing-jews

Jewish atheist chaplain sees atheism as a gift. But a gift from whom? Her real religion, she makes clear in this NPR story, is the Holocaust.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/20/1194628971/religion-atheism-chaplin

All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

Jonathan Greenblatt destroyed what was left of the Black-Jewish Alliance when he attacked Kanye West and Kyrie Irving.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/strengthening-the-black-jewish-alliance-is-as-critical-as-ever-opinion/ar-AA1fNbRC

Most educated people know from books like this one that the "Holocaust narrative," meaning what we say and how we say it, was concocted by the academy in the 1960s and 70s. Until then, Americans had mostly ignored the Holocaust. To weave support for Israel into America's DNA, Jewish leaders not only invented victimhood Olympics, granting Hitler a suspiciously colossal posthumous victory, but made the tournament immensely profitable for everyone involved.

The recipe for this new Holocaust mythology called for half-truths, selective blindness, and overbaked Marxism, seasoned with a little shameless opportunism. All it cost to join the gravy train was the death of conscience--and, occasionally, other people's kids. It laid the groundwork for equally popular and even more tasteless future dishes such as racial grievance politics and gender identity.

The project was so successful it permanently corrupted the heart of the American body politic. It has always been a rite of passage for politicians to fabricate strong feelings for financial advantage, but the Israel lobby made it almost compulsory for anyone with political aspirations on this continent.

It turned every mainstream American politician into a buffoonish hate figure performing discredited and dishonest theater in front of the electorate, more concerned with donor dollars than voter contempt, as recently demonstrated on stage by Nikki Haley. Patience for her brand of ritualized lying is wearing very thin now. The corrupt excesses of the Israel lobby have been bad for America and Israel alike.

This new book, out soon from E. Michael Jones, is said to be his most incendiary and controversial yet. Which if you've read any of the others means it's the sort of thing men will be hiding from their wives, and students from their professors. If you have made the mistake of teaching your wife to read, you may wish to prepare a suitably discreet hiding place in preparation.