Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Ok - here goes - I love this show. Jake and his whole team are so great and fun to watch (noic! toit!) This show is so big in the UK (English Chick - have you seen this?) I got hooked on it when we were living there.

I know, I know, Captain Holt is gay and Rosa comes out as bi in season 5 or 6. I've always found it fairly easy to bleep over these things in my mind as I'm watching.

Basically, what I'm presenting to the group here, is how much do you insulate yourselves from what's in the world? Here's me: (1) basically unless the topics get sacrilegious, at which I'll never watch again, or (2) homosexuality is a primary theme throughout the show, or the (3) language is gratuitously foul or the show focuses only on sexual themes (Two and a Half Men comes to mind), I'll keep watching.

For the first example, I had to stop watching the Simpsons after season 12; the second - (I don't know, I've never watched a show where homosexuality is the primary theme - they are probably out there, but I've never seen them - (take that back I've heard that Ru Paul was pretty big in the UK); the third, anything with say Gordon Ramsey or Charlie Sheen in it.

Yeah, that's my question: how much do you insulate yourselves from what's in the world, and is it good for us to do that - is it wrong not to? Should we be more like the Amish?

By the way, we should have a Movies and Books Forum here!

People are always making threads for these and they rarely last more than a week.
And new subforums don't really get added due to the intent to keep the number down purposefully.

Mostly it depends on your spiritual state. I am way more sensitive now than I was 30 years ago. I can watch the early Star Wars movies but not the later ones, which are darker and more occult. I tried to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark again. I turned it off after a few minutes, wondering how I could have enjoyed it in the first place. Hiding from the world is not the answer. Being led by conscience surely is the safest guide. I could not watch the Simpsons or South Park. There is a lot of entertainment that is Antichrist, as are a lot the entertainers themselves. Somehow being famous makes such "celebrities" experts on everything. They are too full of themselves to realise that they would have nothing if it were not for the industries that they condemn.

The question should be, is this helping my Christian life or harming it? God can and does speak through secular movies. But we need to be very careful that we are not absorbing godless principles that hinder our walk with Christ.

The fully committed Spirit filled Christians I know eschew television.

Your life must be a very painful experience from the way you post, you have my sympathy.

Good point DeanM, a sign of the times perhaps, the remakes of the old classics are lacking as well. I recall my grandson and I coming upon a broadcast of the first Mr. Ed, he laughed and laughed.
Even the remake of Willy Wonka turned out weird.
Many we know are taking these shows in and they are affecting them.

Blazing Saddles was a dandy that could not be remade today.

The fully committed Spirit filled Christians I know eschew television.

I like Blazing Saddles. I wanted to like some of the DC shows but gay characters just for the sake of having them ruined it for me. Of course comics themselves have went off the rails too.