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| Does Television Need More Dirty Words? |
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4:29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for edifying, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who hear.
The Supreme Court has considered taking a case to determine if there should be more dirty words on TV. It seems that currently the FCC doesn’t allow 7 particular dirty words on broadcast TV.
Some groups, however, are trying to get the FCC ruling changed so that they can broadcast and allow people to hear those 7 dirty words on broadcast sickovision. The words in question refer to things like feces, urination, and crude sexual intercourse.
But isn’t sickovision gross and vulgar enough with out sprinkling in 7 more dirty words? What’s the point?
Perhaps people want to pretend they are still in elementary school where they first learned those adolescent words. Maybe hearing bad words makes them feel like a big boy or a big girl. Perhaps some people actually enjoy thinking, talking, and hearing about “sexual and excretory functions” while at home watching TV. However, it sure doesn’t make any sense to me.
Personally, I prefer inspirational, wholesome, positive words and phrases. If the Supreme Court permits the 7 dirty words, they should at least be fair and mandate that for every dirty word used on sickovision one of the following 7 uplifting words be used: righteousness, purity, morality, honesty, holiness, hallelujah, and godly. |
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| November 04, 2008 |
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Steve, how about this perspective... Television, for the Christian, at its best, is STILL merely a distraction from doing good deeds, ministering to and helping people. So I say, let them further ruin it with all the dirty loathsome content they want. Take "TV" out of the realm of shades of grey, right into a black and white issue, so that anyone who claims Christ will be embarassed to say they watch it at all!!
What do ya think? ps... Good blog as usual Steve. |
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| November 04, 2008 |
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I've often thought they should ban the seven deadly sins, as well! :P On second though, take the seven deadly sins out of the picture, and you put 99.9 percent of the screenwriters union on the unemployment line... |
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| November 04, 2008 |
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...which would be punishing the taxpayers, now that I really think the situation through. Mike n Laura have a good point about television being a distraction, and it's quite an argument about letting the media lapse into something akin to a shameless pleasure garden. But I also believe that television and the rest of the media are valuable tools for delivering the Good News (though George Whitefield didn't need coverage by broadcast journalists when he visited Monmouth County back in the 18th century). Shouldn't we be working to convince screenwriters to write stories of value? |
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| November 04, 2008 |
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Good points.
I'd never looked at it that way, Mike. If TV becomes worse, Christians might quit watching it and begin to spend their time seeking God and serving others. However, as bad as sickovision already is, many Christians still watch the filth it contains and justify their sin of watching sin for pleasure.. |
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| November 04, 2008 |
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| You know what really gets to me. Could you imagine half of what is said today being said in the 50's. They'd pull the show off the air. When I was in high school the Ellen show was essentially cancelled after she came out of the closet. Today we exalt her by giving her Emmy's for her talk show and celebrate her lesbianism. Really! This country has been in a moral downward spiral for years. Wake up church and raise a standard. |
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| November 04, 2008 |
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| Dan: If you recall Jesus' first message was "Repent and believe.' Same for the apostles. |
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| November 04, 2008 |
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| AMEN, Television or as Steve likes to put it sickovision, doesn't need another impure/vulgar word or sound or subliminal message added to it, simply because many things aired on tv has been strategically placed by the enemy, from cradle to grave, that is why sickovision does not need to babysit our children because if he (satan) can get them as babies with the little subtle suggetions made on cartoons and the so called educational programs then by the time they are teens, they know how to be a serial killer by murdering people with thier tongue, we don't even need physical weapons anymore to murder people that small unruly member of the body does it daily. |
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| November 04, 2008 |
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| That's true, Sheree. We American Christians are being brain washed into more and more carnality. |
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| November 04, 2008 |
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Excellent brother!!
You know I am an Advocate for God, is there a site we can vote on about this?? |
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| November 04, 2008 |
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| Isn't that something, Cheryl, that we have no vote about filth pervading our media? |
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| November 04, 2008 |
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| Dan: Living right and loving the brethren are both signs of genuine redemption. |
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