Several years ago, I decided to get rid of our television. Like all of the nay sayers say, "If you don't want your children to see the bad stuff, turn the channel". Well what I found was that pretty much every station had "bad" stuff on it. It was kind of hard to determine when it reared its ugly head. So I made the very wise decision to just get rid of it. We now will buy appropriate things to watch from online and not even have to weather the horror of the adult commercials that they will throw at you and asault you with and then say, "Well if you don't like it don't watch". O.K. so after many times of being horrified the TV is gone.
It has been several years since we have watched mainstream TV, and we are in a place where a TV was already there. So we decided to watch animal planet which was fine. But when we turned the TV on, the first image was...horrifying. There was no warning. No chance to "just turn it off" until the horrifying images were out and into my living room and into our unsuspecting eyes and brains.
Now as a orthodox Catholic, I completely trust the Lord to take care of me during these unsuspecting fecal flinging attacks from the devil. But here is the thing. There are many people out there that may be damaged for a long time if not for life by images that are put out there by these evil stations. Yes, they are evil. This was not a mistake on their part to put this programing out there. It was thought about, planned and executed in a very methodical manner for the impact that it has on the audience...no matter who the audience is!
These people know exactly what they are doing. They are worse then the crack dealer on the corner giving out a free hit, "the first one is always free...". There is no regard for children who might accidentally run across the channel. And mind you we saw this horror at 6:30 p.m., not at 1 a.m. in the morning on some obscure pay channel.
The point is this. My wife and I have fought these offenses for years. We have been on the front lines and have actively fought evil in many different ways. So for those out there that think (very naively) that I am speaking from a arm chair...I am not. I suggest you get out there and see how incredibly hard it is to get anyone to listen to anything about morality. Just look at what happened to Ken Cuccinelli in the race against Terry McAuliffe in the state of Virginia. Cuccinelli loses by 50,000 some odd votes. Why? Take a look at what Cuccinelli stands for, anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage. He is moral, and has a moral platform. So why did he lose? Because good people do not want to get involved and the liberals know it and they have no problem taking advantage of it. Not to mention the Republican party did not say a word for him...or against him. They just let him lose and they did not say a word.
Kind of like people watching TV these days. Christians have forgotten how to fight, or just "won't" fight.
So what did Christ mean then when he told the disciples to sell whatever they had to and buy a sword? And St. Paul tells us to put on the full armor of God. For what? Who needs armor when your watching TV? Right?
It has been several years since we have watched mainstream TV, and we are in a place where a TV was already there. So we decided to watch animal planet which was fine. But when we turned the TV on, the first image was...horrifying. There was no warning. No chance to "just turn it off" until the horrifying images were out and into my living room and into our unsuspecting eyes and brains.
Now as a orthodox Catholic, I completely trust the Lord to take care of me during these unsuspecting fecal flinging attacks from the devil. But here is the thing. There are many people out there that may be damaged for a long time if not for life by images that are put out there by these evil stations. Yes, they are evil. This was not a mistake on their part to put this programing out there. It was thought about, planned and executed in a very methodical manner for the impact that it has on the audience...no matter who the audience is!
These people know exactly what they are doing. They are worse then the crack dealer on the corner giving out a free hit, "the first one is always free...". There is no regard for children who might accidentally run across the channel. And mind you we saw this horror at 6:30 p.m., not at 1 a.m. in the morning on some obscure pay channel.
The point is this. My wife and I have fought these offenses for years. We have been on the front lines and have actively fought evil in many different ways. So for those out there that think (very naively) that I am speaking from a arm chair...I am not. I suggest you get out there and see how incredibly hard it is to get anyone to listen to anything about morality. Just look at what happened to Ken Cuccinelli in the race against Terry McAuliffe in the state of Virginia. Cuccinelli loses by 50,000 some odd votes. Why? Take a look at what Cuccinelli stands for, anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage. He is moral, and has a moral platform. So why did he lose? Because good people do not want to get involved and the liberals know it and they have no problem taking advantage of it. Not to mention the Republican party did not say a word for him...or against him. They just let him lose and they did not say a word.
Kind of like people watching TV these days. Christians have forgotten how to fight, or just "won't" fight.
So what did Christ mean then when he told the disciples to sell whatever they had to and buy a sword? And St. Paul tells us to put on the full armor of God. For what? Who needs armor when your watching TV? Right?
