Daemon Karellen et Finis Pueritia ab Arthur C Clarke

Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,

The SyFy TV channel has converted Arthur C Clarke's 1953 novel Childhood's End into a three part television show. The ideas for Clarke's novel originates with the works of socialist Olaf Stapledon, particularly his novels Last and First Men, Last Men in London, and Star Maker. Communal intelligence, utopian socialism, and trascendent evolution are all extolled while individual freedom, religious principle and morality (particularly Judeo-Christian), and the responsibility of the free market are all denigrated. As a youth in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, I had read most of Arthur C Clarke's works. This TV show does not disappoint to follow the ideas (if not always the exact events) in his novel, and it is everything that socialist Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders supports, extols and advocates:

• There is no money and no need to work
• Food and the necessities of life are magically provided
• Free green energy is instantly available everywhere
• Religious extremism, war and fighting are gone

The alien who comes to bring this peace and prosperity turns out to have the form and physique of a demon: red skinned and yellow eyed with two horns, cloven hoofs and a tail.

Karellen with Children
Childhood's End

Apparently humanity had a racial premonition that its transcendent evolution to a super-mind would require the dissolution of the race and the planet at the help of the alien. But he is portrayed as magnanimous and beneficent in helping humanity achieve world peace and transcendent evolution to the over-mind whereas religion is mocked and derided as having contributed nothing to mankind's progress, and God is accused at least by one protagonist of having caused disease and injury and turmoil and catastrophe. This is all the liberal progressive tripe which started in the late 19th century and early 20th with fantasizers like Olaf Stapledon.

But what really has God contributed? Telling liberal progressives that He so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son is like telling them something incomprehensible, for they do not believe in sin or that they sin, so there is no need for God's Son. Theirs is a materialist universe devoid of any spirituality except this fantastic and mythical over-mind. They believe as the alien tells them that man can create a heaven on earth by his own works. There is no recognition of man's inherent concupiscence, that he is born dead in his sins and trespasses.

Even the physical things that God through His Church has done - all the scientists who were Catholic, all the hospitals and schools that the Church built, all the good works that the Church has done for the poor - are cats aside into non-recognition, and this alien whose name is Karellen comes to Earth and brings peace and prosperity that Christ never did. The world is turned upside down in this TV show and in Clarke's novel. The demonic provides the good. And at the end which is tonight Earth will be destroyed as humanity's children psychically joined the over-mind. Nothing is left of those whom God created in His image. yet if one tells these people who believe in nonsense like this that God will at the end of time melt the elements with fire, creating a new heaven and a new earth, they will deride and condemn one as a hater and a religious extremist.

Well as for me, I will proudly remain a Catholic Christian extremist, and will always oppose people like Bernie Sanders who come in human form but are really the spawn of Satan himself. Indeed, if it looks like a demon and acts like a demon, then it is a demon and the Lord Jesus Christ will one day send Satan and all his demonic spawn to burn in hell for all eternity.

Karellen the Demon
Childhood's End