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| Face The Real World, Hollywood! |
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Hollywood claims that when they fill their films and TV shows with violence, vulgarity, profanity, and disrespect, they are only portraying reality. However, the "reality" Hollywood portrays is very selective and manipulative.
Hollywood almost never shows one of the greatest realities in our nation -- Americans pray. Polls consistently show that Americans are a praying people. Here are a few samples:
"Less than 1 in 10 Americans say they never pray." --12/17/04 FOX Poll
"88% of Americans pray." --Margarret Paloma, University of Akron sociologist
"94% of Americans believe in a Higher Power." --A Gallup Poll
Yet, watching American movies and TV, you would have no idea that any American ever prays. According to Hollywood, Americans cuss, lie, steal, and kill. In Hollywood's view, Americans engage in cheapo sex at the drop of a hat (or other piece of clothing) without any discussion and without any birth control; but they don't pray. What a big fat lie Hollywood is laying on us all!
Even when they are in desperation and about to die, TV and movie characters don't pray. Tom Hanks was languishing away in misery and despair in Cast Away,but did he ever pray, even once? No. Not even a simple, "Somebody help me!" Instead of prayer, Hollywood shows Hanks talking to a Wilson volleyball. Talk about manipulation and the denial of reality!
I recently saw another Hollywood denial-of-reality film, Nim's Island. It was PG and so I thought that perhaps it wouldn't try to manipulate me too much. Wrong! Nim's father is by himself in a sinking boat in the ocean and all he does is talk to a bird. Get real. Even when the boat sinks and he is holding on to the wreckage and knows that he is about to die, Hollywood denies that he prays. What a lie! (They should learn to read what the polls say about Americans and prayer.)
But get this. Even Nim, his 10 or 12 year-old daughter, who is alone on an island and is fearful that her father is in trouble for his life -- even she doesn't pray one word! Come to think of it, when have you ever seen a prayer in a non-religious, Hollywood production, other than a rare table blessing in old movies?
Hollywood, get past your denial and portray reality as it is. Americans pray!
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| To add a comment to "Face The Real World, Hollywood!" |
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| April 30, 2009 |
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| Well my friend America might be praying....but it looks to me like they are praying to the WRONG GOD.....or He ain't listening......Are you watching the news???? The God I know says...If my people which are called by MY NAME will humble themselves and PRAY and SEEK MY FACE...and TURN from their WICKED WAYS....THEN I will hear from heaven and forgive their sins and HEAL the LAND....... Until Gods people WAKE UP and get serious about God....It is...What it is.....A Big Hollywood Production! |
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| April 30, 2009 |
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| You should hear my little children pray. They pray for their food. And when we're in the car, my toddler says, "We have to pray!" The saved folks are praying. Some of us don't pray for hours, but some of us do pray throughout the day. |
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| April 30, 2009 |
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The problem Steve is not that Christians" are not "praying" - the problem is that they have not been living holy and righteous lives; therfore, Hollywood's images prevail instead of God's Image.
Most in the churches still have the same attitudes of cold love and roots of bitterness, and still look like, act like and live like the world, continuing to resist the need to grow spiritually into the perfect will of God (because they have been falsely led to believe by false preachers and teachers that they don't have to). I have discerned and observed that most, especially "Christian men" (in and out of the churches), don't even know what God's will is for their lives). So, as The Word says in these times when many Scriptures are being fulfilled - God has not heard their prayers (and the women in the churches have limited spiritual authority). Just look around you - in the churches you can see the many manifestations of the results that is obvious!
Open your eyes, brothers! Our salvation from the "wrath to comeI" will be (in part) to our having a love for the truth; not continuing to cover up the real problems with proclamations of self-righteousness. It is written in John 9:31-32 and James 1:6-8:
"... but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him."
"But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways."
Get angry at me as much as you like - Jesus Loves you and so do I (in Him) Because it is God's Word that shall stand (Isaiah 40:6-8)!
In the spirit of Elijah,
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| April 30, 2009 |
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HSPM: You missed my point. People pray (whether those prayers go far or not) and yet Hollywood almost never shows anyone praying. They claim that the negativity, vulgarity, and violence that they show is the real world, but in the real world, even people caught up in sin pray when they are desperate.
I am not suggesting that everybody who says a prayer is right with God; far from it. |
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| April 30, 2009 |
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| Destiny: Prayer is a beginning. When someone prays, the Holy Spirit can have greater access to her/him. I have found prayer with people to be a great ministry tool. If I can get someone to say a prayer with me, I notice they begin to be under conviction. |
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| April 30, 2009 |
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| Mar Jay: I don't watch the news much. I do know that we need a genuine repentance based spirital awakening and turning to passionate obedience to Christ. |
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| April 30, 2009 |
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| Steve your point is valid. Our society acts upon what they see on the TV and at the movies. If we want a society geared towards millitary they put out millitary type movies rambo, platoon, full metal jacket etc. I think you get the idea. Yes even peopel who are not sold out will pray when they become desparate, our job is to show those that are praying out of desparation the way to the door that leads to Christ. God bless ya. Great post |
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| May 01, 2009 |
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Thanks, Chris. |
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| May 01, 2009 |
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Steve, I do understand your point - very well. However, I certainly do hope that you and the others understand the point(s) I was given by The Holy Spirit to make. God's ways are not as our ways.
God Bless you. |
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