TV
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I'm very selective about what I watch on TV if I decide to watch it.
I pretty much hate TV. And I'm speaking of network programming not the greater package of cable selections that include movies and other things.
Tonight in the break room at work "Grey's Anatomy" was on as I looked up at it disinterestedly a few minutes here and there. I began to ponder what it is that makes people entertained by such a show.
A serial drama like that when it's at it's best, is really a performance art form that is meant to provide leisure and diversion, and when it's done well, be an imitation of life.
We're acting out our own existence and being entertained by it.
Problem for me is,...real life in this world is sad and not amusing, because most people live lives apart from the knowledge of their creator and a relationship with Him. And when I'm watching a TV show, I'm seeing the lives of people fictional or otherwise that have no knowledge of God or any place for Him in their life. So the world they portray, is one where there's no God. It's almost as if ignoring His existence is a message that they reject Him. It somehow seems arrogantly defiant.
("The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts." Psalm 10:4)
I know God is real and that He wants to be the center of our world and the center of every individual in it. And that the world doesn't want that. Just as secular learning institutions deliberately present the ridiculous fantasy of evolution as fact, with no consideration of any opposing viewpoint. The other side of the story is censured, so that all will be brainwashed with the preferred bias. The concept is, if we ignore it, it will cease to challenge what we want to believe, and eventually go away. Sorta like when someone in the family is angry with another family member, and they do the "extinction syndrome". the cold shoulder. The silent treatment. all of a sudden you are invisible. It's the child-like tantrum of putting your hands over your ears, closing your eyes and humming.
So, very often when I hear secular music or see a movie or tv show, I feel something inside that is disturbing. It's the constant awareness that I live in a world that, on the whole, has decided to treat God like He doesn't exist.
It just offends me.
.
I'm very selective about what I watch on TV if I decide to watch it.
I pretty much hate TV. And I'm speaking of network programming not the greater package of cable selections that include movies and other things.
Tonight in the break room at work "Grey's Anatomy" was on as I looked up at it disinterestedly a few minutes here and there. I began to ponder what it is that makes people entertained by such a show.
A serial drama like that when it's at it's best, is really a performance art form that is meant to provide leisure and diversion, and when it's done well, be an imitation of life.
We're acting out our own existence and being entertained by it.
Problem for me is,...real life in this world is sad and not amusing, because most people live lives apart from the knowledge of their creator and a relationship with Him. And when I'm watching a TV show, I'm seeing the lives of people fictional or otherwise that have no knowledge of God or any place for Him in their life. So the world they portray, is one where there's no God. It's almost as if ignoring His existence is a message that they reject Him. It somehow seems arrogantly defiant.
("The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts." Psalm 10:4)
I know God is real and that He wants to be the center of our world and the center of every individual in it. And that the world doesn't want that. Just as secular learning institutions deliberately present the ridiculous fantasy of evolution as fact, with no consideration of any opposing viewpoint. The other side of the story is censured, so that all will be brainwashed with the preferred bias. The concept is, if we ignore it, it will cease to challenge what we want to believe, and eventually go away. Sorta like when someone in the family is angry with another family member, and they do the "extinction syndrome". the cold shoulder. The silent treatment. all of a sudden you are invisible. It's the child-like tantrum of putting your hands over your ears, closing your eyes and humming.
So, very often when I hear secular music or see a movie or tv show, I feel something inside that is disturbing. It's the constant awareness that I live in a world that, on the whole, has decided to treat God like He doesn't exist.
It just offends me.
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posted by Shiloh | February 19, 2009
2 Comments:
I am always disturbed about what I see on TV or hear on the radio nowadays. I keep myself so focused on Christian radio stations in my car and home, and only watch Christian based shows ( I don't have cable) that when I do watch a little bit of secular TV, it really really disturbes me and I see first hand the saddness, the pain and the worldliness filled with lust and anger that is running wildly around me. It is very very scary.
The only good thing about it all, is that Jesus is coming soon. I will see you there! :o)
I have missed seeing you around and am wondering how you are. I hope that this offense of the flippant manner in which the world treats its Creator moves you to preach Christ even more fervently than ever... Love you, brother!
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