Does Christ like the same shows as you?
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Kind of smells like the BDF in here....
...there...that's better!
What scent did you use? Lavender? Lemon? Rose?
Personally, I like Ocean Breeze...
The Middle is one of the few shows I'll watch, as far as I know Sue's boyfriend hasn't came out as gay, but I missed a lot of episodes.
I call her Ellen Degenerate. Lol.
The Hunger Games was another dumb move used to brain wash teens, just like Twilight.
The Good Doctor seems alright, I saw a few episodes
Any scent is better than the BDF
Good, I don't feel so bad about farting in here now.
Interesting opinion. Have you watched any of them? Have you read the books? If, as you claim, the movie was intended to brainwash teens, what was the goal of the brainwashing? What was the intent or the desired result?
This is a fantastic guideline. It's abhorrent to see Christians investing their time in this calibre of activity that is straight from the enemy. When you commit your life to Christ, you do a clean out of all things part of your lifestyle. To sit around with things like harry potter, pokemon or media Miri mentioned, which are just so anti Jesus in their makeup, is not something I'm willing to accept and invest my time in.
Teens and young adults often be come obsessed with movies like Hunger Games and then try to use the values of those fictional worlds in real life.
I saw the first movie, it's kind of a messed up story, children killing each other to feed the people of their ward or whatever it is.
I don't think the goal is anything but to make fans so devote that it turns into idol worship.
I ended up giving up watching T.V...Once I started walking with Lord, everything I was watching I was being convicted about...I used to love my soaps, I mean I would literally set a time where I was in bed for the evening by 6.30 and watch the soaps untill nine, then switch over for all the reality T.V shows, but then I saw the evil in them all...
No longer could I sit and watch my favourite soaps with my grand children or children, the characters are mostly becoming gay, same sex kissing, in bed with each other, my skin started to crawl, not just the gay part but the violence, the cheating, the everything...It`s been six months now and I do not miss it one bit, I now watch youtube films that are clean, or animal docs, or sermons, and I sleep much better
...We are warned in the bible to be careful what we set our minds too...xox...
No longer could I sit and watch my favourite soaps with my grand children or children, the characters are mostly becoming gay, same sex kissing, in bed with each other, my skin started to crawl, not just the gay part but the violence, the cheating, the everything...It`s been six months now and I do not miss it one bit, I now watch youtube films that are clean, or animal docs, or sermons, and I sleep much better
...We are warned in the bible to be careful what we set our minds too...xox...
Some of the values presented in The Hunger Games: self-sacrifice, loyalty, provision for others, family integrity, the strong protecting the weak, violence reserved for self-preservation, resistance toward ungodly authority. Horrible stuff... you're right; nobody should see that.
I read the books before seeing two of the four movies. Yes, the premise behind the "hunger games" is screwed up... that's kind of the point. Teenagers, with the help of adults, challenge the horribly broken system and change it. It reminds me a bit of David and Goliath. We live in a broken world too... we don't fix it by being naive about its harsh realities.
The movies also teach reblion against authority by violence. Reblion against authority is last then teens need support of. When teens don't agree with authority they now have story that tells them to rebel.
All those good aspects should be taught from the Bible not borrowed from it.
Exactly where did you get "rebellious teens" and "liberal fantasy from". The show is targeted torwards comic book fans and adds relationship drama to appeal to women. That's it basically, yes it's an escape and people just watch it to be entertained.
Its a movie/book just intended to entertain people. Stop reading to much into it. It's not teaching kids to rebell, it's telling a story of a corrupt government, and if you watched the movies they're obviously corrupt. The only one who can stop them is Katniss who's the best best female ever with a bow and arrow It's too over the top to be realistic and that makes it fine. I didn't go out if the theater thinking, "let's protest against our government".
They don't "teach" rebellion; they show it. There is a difference.
So... borrowing from the Bible is a bad thing? People are going to read books, watch movies, play games, and so on, whether they have biblical values or not. Isn't it better to build biblical values into entertainment media rather than to let worldly values have absolute sway? Do you really think you're going to get anything like millions of people into movie theatres to watch you (or anyone else) read from the Bible? Nice thought, but shockingly naïve. Get real, man, and stop "shoulding" on us. Put it in the BDF next time.
The movies teach by showing.
By borrowing from the Bible they the away form the Bible. Instead of Godly morals pointing to God they point to human effort. Of course millions of people won't go to a movie theater to see someone read the Bible, I didn't even suggest such an idea.
I put the thread here because the topic is based on another thread here in singles, I don't care about your silly no debate rule in singles as there are more important things.
It's sad to see a really good discussion topic ruined by simplistic condemnation. Perhaps for that reason I've decided to hijack this thread and try to turn it around instead of starting my own. When I think of the topic of entertainment and what is appropriate entertainment well so far these are some of the thoughts that have crossed my mind:
1) An accurate depiction of many Biblical stories would likely be just as bad as most of what is on TV in terms of content: there are multiple accounts of incest, battles, God ordered genocide of the Cananites when Joshua conquered the promised land, Song of Songs, adultery and murder committed by David one of the heroes of the Bible, Abraham tries to pass off his wife as his sister. Well a lot of what the Bible has to teach through stories it teaches through the stories of the consequences of making the wrong choice.
2) Our TV shows are for the most part pretending to do what people in the past had for real life entertainment. Public executions, fighting animals to injury or death for sport, prostitutes, mistresses, etc. How terrible is it to watch on screen fake portrayals of what our ancestors enjoyed watching and doing in real life? Certainly it's not good to desire these things, but we might not be being honest about history to say that everything has degraded to new lows.
3) Ideals- I think even beyond content the question of what ideals something is promoting is important (but other people I know are stimulated more by content and may not be as affected by ideals and principles conveyed in a story as I am). How important ( for adults as what you may want your kids to know and witness is a different topic) is the detail and graphicness of the scenes in a show or movie vs the overall message of "do whatever you have to to get ahead" vs "do what is right" or "cheating is fun and will make you happy" vs "cheating will cause a world of stress and hurt" or "fight for what is right" vs "flout authority".
4) God can reveal himself through the most unlikely of mediums. You don't have to have a depiction of a perfect moral world to learn solid moral principles; we do well to reflect and pray about what we are learning from the stories we watch and read and what they are trying to teach us.
So let's change this to open up discussion: How do you choose which entertainment to indulge in and which is inappropriate for you to partake of?
1) An accurate depiction of many Biblical stories would likely be just as bad as most of what is on TV in terms of content: there are multiple accounts of incest, battles, God ordered genocide of the Cananites when Joshua conquered the promised land, Song of Songs, adultery and murder committed by David one of the heroes of the Bible, Abraham tries to pass off his wife as his sister. Well a lot of what the Bible has to teach through stories it teaches through the stories of the consequences of making the wrong choice.
2) Our TV shows are for the most part pretending to do what people in the past had for real life entertainment. Public executions, fighting animals to injury or death for sport, prostitutes, mistresses, etc. How terrible is it to watch on screen fake portrayals of what our ancestors enjoyed watching and doing in real life? Certainly it's not good to desire these things, but we might not be being honest about history to say that everything has degraded to new lows.
3) Ideals- I think even beyond content the question of what ideals something is promoting is important (but other people I know are stimulated more by content and may not be as affected by ideals and principles conveyed in a story as I am). How important ( for adults as what you may want your kids to know and witness is a different topic) is the detail and graphicness of the scenes in a show or movie vs the overall message of "do whatever you have to to get ahead" vs "do what is right" or "cheating is fun and will make you happy" vs "cheating will cause a world of stress and hurt" or "fight for what is right" vs "flout authority".
4) God can reveal himself through the most unlikely of mediums. You don't have to have a depiction of a perfect moral world to learn solid moral principles; we do well to reflect and pray about what we are learning from the stories we watch and read and what they are trying to teach us.
So let's change this to open up discussion: How do you choose which entertainment to indulge in and which is inappropriate for you to partake of?