“Right now television has the culture by its throat”, said Neil Postman. According to an article in Time magazine, the average viewer sees more than 9,000 scenes of suggested sex or innuendo on prime-time TV in one year. Is music any better? No, according to media analysts, secular music is filled with… “violence, the occult, rebellion, drug abuse, promiscuity, and homosexuality are constant themes,” says U.S. News and World Report. Couple this with the fact that teens “listen to an estimated 10,500 hours of rock music between the seventh and 12th grades alone, just 500 hours less than the total time they spend in school over 12 years” and, well, you get the picture.
We are being swept away by a society that, like the fool in Psalm 14:1, believes that “there is no God.” I am not describing these evils so that everyone will burn their TVs and computers, and go hide in the mountains. Rather, it is to give you just a sampling of the powerful influences toward godlessness we all must contend with daily.
In the years ahead, we will live increasingly in the fictional worlds of human imaginations. We will turn on our virtual-reality systems and lie back, experiencing heavenly pleasures of sight and sound in a snug electronic nest. The real world will almost be totally blotted out from our experience.
From GEM-05e – Getting Serious About God in An Amused World (071118AM)
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