My browser can’t find the server :(. In any case, I highly recommend Fireproof and for those looking for more info on it, this link is a good one: http://fireproofmymarriage.com
I watched it last night. I suppose it could have been worse, but it was mostly patronizing and had that aura of being at the zoo looking at the strange, exotic, animals.
While I understand your point #2 (Words Matter), I think the take away quote (badly paraphrased) is that the Church spends far too much time reacting to the culture and too little time being the transformative culture. Our government has spent money to fund medical studies which have found that – get ready for this – sex and violence on screen promotes sex and violence in young persons. (Stunning data, huh?!) So the Hollywood promotion of ‘gay is good’, sex early is fine, infidelity is universal, money is power, revenge is justice, etc. has deep-seated effects on moral behavior. If we want to shape behavior in our own children, we should teach it, model it, pray for their salvation, surround them with that which is good – and produce entertainment which edifies them and contributes to those ideals we want them to aspire to. Just my ever-depreciating two bits. 🙂
montanan, I’m not sure to what in my statement you are reacting, but I completely agree with your comment. How many instances of fornication are seen on television daily? And they wonder why we can’t whip teen pregnancy!
My criticism was directed at the militantly secular ABC news, not the subject of their reporting.
My browser can’t find the server :(. In any case, I highly recommend Fireproof and for those looking for more info on it, this link is a good one: http://fireproofmymarriage.com
I watched it last night. I suppose it could have been worse, but it was mostly patronizing and had that aura of being at the zoo looking at the strange, exotic, animals.
While I understand your point #2 (Words Matter), I think the take away quote (badly paraphrased) is that the Church spends far too much time reacting to the culture and too little time being the transformative culture. Our government has spent money to fund medical studies which have found that – get ready for this – sex and violence on screen promotes sex and violence in young persons. (Stunning data, huh?!) So the Hollywood promotion of ‘gay is good’, sex early is fine, infidelity is universal, money is power, revenge is justice, etc. has deep-seated effects on moral behavior. If we want to shape behavior in our own children, we should teach it, model it, pray for their salvation, surround them with that which is good – and produce entertainment which edifies them and contributes to those ideals we want them to aspire to. Just my ever-depreciating two bits. 🙂
montanan, I’m not sure to what in my statement you are reacting, but I completely agree with your comment. How many instances of fornication are seen on television daily? And they wonder why we can’t whip teen pregnancy!
My criticism was directed at the militantly secular ABC news, not the subject of their reporting.