One of the church’s biggest runaway successes in recent years has been the incredible popularity of guided meditation app Hallow.
The app is regularly advertised by Mark Wahlberg, who advises individuals to ‘stay prayed up’ or some variant.
Other high profile figures have advertised the app, including Bishop Robert Barron.
In an unusual move, they have hired a fierce critic of Catholicism and a keen supporter of abortion, Liam Neeson.
Neeson was a prominent campaigner for abortion in Ireland in 2018, something which he tied in with criticism of Catholicism. The ad, created by Amnesty International, was dripping in anti Irish and anti Catholic imagery, suggesting that Catholicism was a ‘darkness’ which ‘haunts this land’, implying that allowing babies to be killed in the womb would be the only remedy.
Neeson is set to star in a new film about the so called ‘Tuam Babies’ based on the debunked conspiracy theory which claims that nuns murdered 800 babies and threw them into a septic tank, despite an exhaustive state report proving otherwise and despite the death certs of all 800 babies being available online, showing that none were in fact ‘murdered’.
Neeson recently revealed that he has not been to Confession for decades after confessing to masturbating.
Most recently, the controversial Hollywood star admitted to wishing to commit revenge on a random ‘black bastard’ after a friend was raped.
It seems strange timing then for Hallow to pick Neeson to front their CS Lewis prayer series.
Sure, Neeson played Aslan’s voice in the Chronicles of Narnia films. But surely these other things come into account?
Speaking with The Chosen’s Jonathan Roumie, Neeson unconvincingly tells us that he wants people who join ‘us’ to find ‘more hope’ in their lives.
Neeson, raised a Northern Irish Catholic, praises the writing of Northern Irish Protestant CS Lewis, without mentioning anything specifically religious.
With his upcoming hitpiece on the nuns at Tuam and his support for abortion in Ireland, there is little that Neeson’s reading of Lewis will do to undo the damage that his causes have done to Ireland.
Are we being uncharitable? Anyone who follows us know that we overly favourable, to a fault, to any celebrity who shows even a semblance of familiarity with Christianity. But this is not that, this is basically a brand crossover that we are expected to stomach as a spiritual awakening.
