Ye that
Love the Lord, Hate Evil . . .
Psalms 97:10
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44%
of kids say they
watch something different when they're alone than with
their parents (25% choose MTV)
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66%
of children (ages 10 to 16) surveyed say that their
peers are influenced by TV shows
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62%
say that sex on TV
shows and movies influences kids to have sex when they
are too young
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77%
say there is too much sex before marriage on television
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65%
say that shows like The Simpson's and Married… With
Children encourage kids to disrespect parents.
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Witnessing
repeated violent acts can lead to desensitization and a
lack of empathy for human suffering
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Beyond doubt, there
are lots of obvious
links between Tolkien's imaginary world and the occult
teachings of different secret societies. You who have
read "Lord of the Rings", and "Silmarillion"
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NEW
One of my daughters asked to
go and visit a website and, as always I go to check out
the website before telling her it is ok. I click
over to iCarly.com and look around for a minute. I
click on iBlogs, and the first post on the page deals
with taking Yoga in school. Do you anything about
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The Cartoon Network
recently aired a movie called "Scooby Doo and the
Witch's Ghost." It features three Wiccan/gothic female
characters known as "The Hex Girls." They also happen
to be a rock band. One of their songs is called "Earth,
Wind, Fire, and Air," which is about acknowledging those
elements and having love for the earth. |
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Beauty and the Beast
Beastiality is a Sin |
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Satan is using Disney's
movies and music to brainwash children, leading them
into apostasy and heathendom. The muses (i.e., Hercules
daughters) do their job of singing songs in the movie
and several times state "...that's the gospel truth."
Myth is now Gospel truth??? And here I thought the
Bible was the ONLY Gospel truth. They seem to present
Hercules as a 'Jesus-type' hero who went into the river
of death and brought out a soul, Meg's, and thus by
doing such a deed that was in his heart (due to love) he
became a god. Clearly, Greek mythology and the Word of
God are diametrically opposed to each other. The Bible
is Truth; but Greek mythology is fiction. It is obvious
that the heathens at Walt Disney don't see any
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Disney's
website calls BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA
the #1 Family Movie in America. The truth
is that
Walt Disney is of the Devil, and is
using movies as a means to corrupt America's
families. The two main characters in the movie
are Jess and Leslie, pictured in the photo to the
right. There are several disturbing scenes in the
movie, which clearly evidence a Satanic agenda,
and malicious attack against Christianity.
Walt Disney has mastered the art of
subliminal messaging and placing suggestive elements in
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Criss
Angel is of the Devil. Criss' real name is
Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos. It is
interesting that he chose to change his name to
"angel," as in FALLEN ANGEL.
The Bible tells us that
the Antichrist will deceive the masses by using
power, signs, and lying wonders. Manipulation
of other's bodies, levitation, mind reading, and
bizarre behavior, the cross in handcuffs--wake
up people! This is the work of the Devil. The
Antichrist will come as a beautiful man and woo
the masses. He will perform miracles and the
world will worship him for this. If you think
this is mere innocent fun, think again. Here's
a video on YouTube titled Criss Angel = Jesus...
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Within
15 minutes of the opening scene, viewers of
Walt Disney's movie, NARNIA,
are face to face with Pan, the pagan
fertility god which Wiccan witches worship and
adore worldwide. The image to the left
pictures PAN, the pagan sex god.
The image to the right is a statue of the
character, Mr.
Tumnus, in NARNIA. Pan is deceitfully renamed to
"Tumnus" in the movie, but anyone who is familiar
with Satanism and witchcraft can instantly
recognize Pan, the evil sexually-perverted god... |
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"I
ask Mary to guide me and my career. . . This
film is something that I believe was made by
Mary for her Son. Because it was made by her, it
will be attacked by the enemy." Jim Caviezel in
an interview.
"The Passion of
The Christ offers an unprecedented cultural
opportunity for you to spread, strengthen, and
share the Catholic faith with your family and
friends. Unlike any other, this movie will
inspire hearts and change minds. And it will
evoke questions."
The Catholic Passion Outreach website
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Assertive
and free-spirited, the new Disney heroine models
today's feminist ideal. Pocahontas follows her
dreams and submits to no one. Brave and
athletic, she scales mountains, climbs trees,
and steers a canoe better than a man. Like
"women who run with wolves," she does what she
wants--and does it well. |
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Watch this episode for yourself and see if you can
pick out all the techniques used to introduce a
child to occultic practices.
There are many different new
age and mystical practices in this episode that it
should send shivers up your spine. |
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"Teletubbies love bumping tummies... and bumping
bottoms." (Teletubbies' Favorite
Things, Big Coloring Book)
"I believe television and video
are the most underestimated force
for good in educating our children
in the technological age in which we
live. It is important to develop
children’s thinking skills."1
(Anne Wood, Teletubby creator,
British Broadcasting Company)
"The challenge to humanity is to
adopt new ways of thinking, new ways
of acting, new ways of organizing
itself in society -- in short, new
ways of living."2
(Our Creative Diversity,
UNESCO) |
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There
is no movie any more evil than THE GOLDEN
COMPASS. The Golden Compass
is book one of a fantasy trilogy written by
English author Philip Pullman in
the late 1990s called His Dark
Materials. Philip Pullman is a
sinfully proud, God-hating, militant atheist. In
a 2001 interview with the Washington Post,
Mr. Pullman said:
“I’m trying to
undermine the basis of Christian belief.”
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Survey Finds Half of TV Shows Refer to Sex, Few
Responsibly
By Don Aucoin | Globe Staff |
02/10/99
As any regular television watcher
knows, sex is not exactly taboo on TV.
But one subject seems to be largely
off-limits, according to a major new study released yesterday: the
''risks and responsibilities'' of sexual activity.
A survey of 1,351 randomly selected
shows by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation found that 56 percent
of TV programs - and 67 percent of prime-time shows - contained
sexual content in word or deed over the course of one week. Yet only
one in 10 such shows mentioned contraception, safe sex, or the
possibility of delaying sexual activity, the study found.
After narrowing their focus to only
the 88 scenes in which sexual intercourse was either ''depicted or
strongly implied,'' researchers discovered that not one program in
the smaller sample ''made even a passing reference'' to safe sex.
With teenage pregnancies reaching 1
million per year and sexually transmitted diseases annually striking
more than 3 million teenagers, the sexual messages sent by TV are a
matter of growing significance, according to Vicky Rideout, director
of the foundation's Program on the Entertainment Media and Public
Health.
''Surveys indicate that TV is one of
the top sources of information for young people about sex,'' Rideout
said in an interview. ''Obviously, parents and sex-ed classes in
schools are important, but TV is a part of the sexual socialization
of young people. It shows how men and women relate to each other,
and what the norms of sexual behavior are.''
Just in case anyone was still in
doubt, the study makes clear just how preoccupied television has
become with sex. Fully 85 percent of soap operas were found to
contain sexual content; TV movies, 83 percent; talk shows, 78
percent; dramas, 58 percent; news magazines, 58 percent; sitcoms, 56
percent; reality shows, 23 percent.
However, the study defined TV sex
broadly, counting everything from passionate kissing to flirting to
''intimate touching'' to sexual intercourse depicted or implied.
Only 7 percent of programs fell into the latter category.
Nonetheless, in detailing the extent
of sexual content on TV, the study sheds a statistical light on the
turnabout in recent years from the repressive attitude toward sex
that characterized television's early years.
''On `I Love Lucy' in the '50s, Lucy
and Ricky didn't share the same bed, even though they were
married,'' observed TV historian Steven D. Stark. ''Sex on
television was fairly nonexistent until fairly recently. In the
'80s, with `Hill Street Blues,' it really opened up.
''Now it's everywhere. It's even in
the ads and promos all the time. There are no barriers anymore.''
But television's preoccupation with the subject does not extend to
sexual precautions, the study found. In general, the subject of safe
sex is treated in a grudging and perfunctory fashion. For instance,
even when shows did make references to sexual ''risks and
responsibilities,'' half the time they were ''minor or
inconsequential.'' In addition, only 1 percent of the shows with
sexual content made sexual risks and responsibilities a primary
emphasis.
Researchers did find that on shows
with sexual content involving teenage characters, the shows were
twice as likely to make reference to safe sex or delaying sex.
However, that still amounted only to fewer than one in every five
shows, and Rideout noted that many shows popular among teenagers
feature young adults, programs in which safe-sex messages were rare.
''Unprotected sex in this day and
age? Where are they coming from, with AIDS a major life-and-death
disease?'' remarked Peggy Charren, founder of Action for Children's
Television.
But the foundation's study also
encountered some criticism yesterday within hours after it was
released. Privately, some network executives complained that such
studies apply a quantitative measure to a qualitative issue, that
simply counting the number of sexual remarks or acts does not convey
the subject's treatment.
In addition, Robert J. Thompson, head
of the Center for the Study of Popular Television, said it is
unrealistic to expect sitcom repartee to include safe-sex messages,
and objected to what he saw as attempts to ''mandate what television
ought to be doing.''
''As uncomfortable as I am that every
time I turn on a sitcom at 8 o'clock there's an erection joke, we
also have to look at the potential positive role television may be
playing in sexuality,'' said Thompson. ''Some of the shows are
beginning to talk about sex in a sophisticated way. It can be done
crudely or very well; `Ally McBeal' is doing it very well, Howard
Stern may not be doing it very well.''
Rideout emphasized that the Kaiser
foundation, a California-based, independent philanthropy that has
recently begun including the entertainment industry in its studies
on public health issues, is ''not approaching this from a moral or
ideological point of view.''
''We do not see ourselves as sex
police,'' she said. ''We're not blaming TV for teen pregnancy. We're
saying that when one out of every two shows is communicating
something about sex, it's a great opportunity for people in the
television industry to play a positive role, to inform at the same
time they're entertaining.
''And there's a lot of people in the
television business who care very much about the impact they have
and are trying to incorporate responsible messages into their
shows,'' she added.
For example, Rideout praised the WB
network's popular ''Dawson's Creek'' for depicting two teenagers
''talking about wanting to be prepared with condoms if they have
sex.'' She also lauded the UPN network's ''Moesha'' and the WB's
''Felicity'' for incorporating discussions of safe sex.
Researchers also acknowledged that
sex is more talked about than consummated on most shows, citing racy
banter on ABC's ''Spin City'' and ''Dharma and Greg''; NBC's
''Friends,'' ''Veronica's Closet,'' and ''Working''; and the WB
network's ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer.''
Nevertheless, Rideout said the
consequences of sex should be ''part of the picture'' even when it's
just talked about, because ''the way people talk about sex is
communicating important information about it.''
Among the 88 shows that depicted or
''strongly implied'' intercourse without any discussion of safe sex,
the study singled out a pair of daytime soap operas, CBS's ''The
Young and the Restless'' and NBC's ''Sunset Beach,'' along with TV's
top-rated show, NBC's ''ER,'' and one of its most talked about,
Fox's ''Ally McBeal.'' The study also cited Fox's ''Party of Five''
and CBS's ''Chicago Hope'' as shows that have tried to convey
safe-sex messages.
There are signs that some in the TV
industry have grown uneasy with the medium's increasing
preoccupation with sex. Scott Sassa, the new president of NBC
Entertainment, recently told TV critics he has directed NBC writers
and producers to cut down on the amount of gratituitous sexual
banter and situations.
CBS spokesman Chris Ender, while
saying the network would reserve comment on the study until
officials have a chance to read it, said that ''overall, we believe
we're very responsible in our portrayals of sex.'' Spokes men for
NBC, ABC, Fox, and the WB said network officials would have no
comment until they see the study.
This story ran on page A17 of the
Boston Globe on 02/10/99.
Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company.
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Movies and TV – The Medium
of Society
By Pastor Rick Rogers
Key Verse: 1 John
2:15-16
Introduction:
It was a challenge to name this chapter the "medium of society," as
it seems so trivial. Television, and the movies and programs that
are carried through it, form a philosophy, world view, standard and
ethic which has a tremendous effect on society. As with music, it
teaches a religion. And it is powerful! In television and movies,
there is an experience attained through the senses of seeing and
hearing, unlike other forms of entertainment such as reading novels
or listening to music. Television can actually place you "in the
realm" of the setting. Thus, it is a powerful teaching tool! As
believers, we must understand the power and purpose of the modern
screen, and obey biblical commands and principles concerning it’s
use.
I. THE
HISTORY OF TELEVISION AND MOVIES
A. Silent
films, 1910-1920. Mainly characterized by humor and
romance. Charlie Chaplin was a favorite of this era. Charlie Chaplin
was barred from the U. S. A. because of his sympathies for Communism
and dislike for America.1
B. Classics,
1920-1940. Walt Disney
began producing cartoon films such as "Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs." Dr. Kober, quoting the Encyclopedia Britannica: "In the U.
S., the first documentaries were made under the Soviet … influence
and reflected the thinking of the extreme left wing … The public,
old as well as young, wanted to see how the wealthy lived, dressed
and misbehaved, and skillful directors such as Cecil B. DeMille
helped educate and entire nation in the boudoirs (bedrooms),
lingerie and riotous living. The worship of the stars reached
delirious proportions."2
C. Westerns and
Crime films, 1940-1950.
Advocated violence, murder, …
D. Sex and scandals,
1950-1960. Hollywood turned
more and more to sex and scandal to lure people back to movie
houses, as the popularity had decreased.
E. Shock and
splatter, 1970-1990. Films
about Satanism and witchcraft (the Exorcist, Poltergeist, …) the
supernatural (Star Wars), extra-terrestrials (Close Encounters of
the Third Kind) blasphemous films (Jesus Christ Superstar) and hard
core pornography were the prime movies for our "entertainment."
F. Science fiction
and horror, 1990’s -
. Science fiction and horror, often
with strong occult and New Age themes, are prevalent. These are
often coupled with nudity and other forms of immorality.
Consider:
These periods cover a general pattern not a particular rule. For
example, "The Robe" was also produced in the 1950-1960 era.
Nevertheless, a pattern has accompanied each period with a definite
philosophy that impacted the culture. As stated at the outset, this
is a powerful teaching tool! Letters E and F can be demonstrated by
the increase of interest in the occult over the past two decades,
and the intense perversion that has permeated our culture.
Homosexuality, pedophilia, bestiality, couples living together
outside of marriage, … all reflect those axioms! The amount of
violence has increased, and the brutality is unspeakable, akin to
the Inquisition!
II. THE PHILOSOPHY
OF TELEVISION AND MOVIES:
A. A distortion
of reality. This is an
inherent danger to children and teen-agers!
B. A dispensing of a
sinful and worldly philosophy:
- a promotion of materialism
- a promotion of immorality
- a promotion of violence
- a promotion of profanity
- a promotion of atheism and
humanism
- a promotion of the occult
C. A domination
of personal life.
Television dominates many homes, and schedules are built around
programs!
D. A destroyer
of time. We are
called to be good stewards (1 Cor. 4:1-2)
and to redeem time (Col. 4:5),
not waste it. That is not to say one should NEVER watch ANYTHING on
television – there are some good things, such as WVCY TV 30,
Christmas specials, …but one must be a faithful steward of time,
treasures, talents, mind, … Reading your Bible is infinitely more
important, and some good studies about Theology and Christian living
are needful for spiritual growth. It is also far better to read some
good Christian novels (there are many fine Christian novels that
teach biblical values and sound truth) and devotionals to help
rather than hinder your walk with the Lord, as entertainment may.
E. A
distraction from corporate worship.
It is not uncommon for Christians to
disregard the worship services of the church to stay home for
television.
F. A
disturbance of family life.
As stated previously, it becomes the
family worship center, it detracts from communication and developing
relationships, and is all to often the center of attention at meal
time rather than family devotions and discussion.
G. A developer
of juvenile aggression.
What younger children see on television
is "real" to them. A Stanford University psychologist, Albert
Brandura, lists the following immediate effects of television
violence:
- It reduces viewer "inhibitions
against violent, aggressive behavior."
- It teacher viewers "forms of
aggression - that is, giving them information about how to
attack someone else when the occasion arises.
- The ethical ending, in which the
villain gets his desserts, does not antidote the violence that
occurred before. It ‘may keep viewers from reproducing villainy’
right away, but it does not make them forget how to do it. The
ethical ending is just a suppresser of violence, it does not
erase.3
Note the following report from
Reader’s Digest:
- TV violence produces lasting and
serious harm
- Those "action" cartoons on
children’s programs are decidedly damaging
- TV erodes inhibitions
- The sheer quantity of TV
watching by youngsters increases hurtful behavior and poor
academic performance.4
H. A disruption of
the learning process.
Entertainment replaces learning, as watching replaces reading and
thinking.
I. A degrading
of morality, as it
glorifies sex, violence, … cf. Pt. 2, above
J. A deadening of
activity. People, especially
teens and children, should be productive. Instead of hours of
inactivity in a mentally neutral mode, people should be exercising
and disciplining their bodies and minds. They should be learning and
developing talents such as playing a musical instrument with which
to glorify and serve the Lord.
III. A THEOLOGY
FOR TELEVISION AND MOVIES
Consider:
On this point, please read the following verses which match letters
A – J in pt. II. Either by command, precept or principle, the Bible
addresses every issue!
A. 1 Tim. 1:4; 4:7; 2 Tim. 4:4
F. Deut. 6:6-7; Eph. 6:1-4
B. Col. 2:8; James 4:4 G. Pro.
20:11; 22:6; 22:15; 29:15
C. Exo. 20:3; Isaiah 45:18;
Eph. 6:4 H. John 5:39; 2 Tim. 2:15; 1 Peter 3:15
D. Eph. 5:15; Col. 3:8 I.
Psalm 101:3; 141:4; 1 Thes. 4:3-4
E. Matt. 6:21, 24 J. Rom.
12:1-2; 1 Cor. 4:1-2; 6:19
Conclusion:
From this very brief summary, consider the impact of television and
movies have had on our culture. Has it been used for the glory of
God, or for the decadence of man?
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