There are some stunning contradictions in our main sources of entertainment. Television has many programs decrying the rampant teenage pregnancies, but they are sponsored by the sex merchants. Some use fifteen year old girls to advertise their sex-will-sale products. Movies depict the beauty of "Foxes" and "Little Darlings" doing it naturally in "Blue Lagoons", and all the while the marquees suggest that no one be admitted under seventeen years of age.
The worst contradiction though, comes a home, where we try to spoon feed our children about life and sexual purity, while we are engaged up to our ears in televised "jiggle" jokes and x-rated acts as our entertainment.
Call me what you like, but it seems to me we ought to be consistent.
Matthew 23: 25 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrite! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self indulgence."
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2 comments:
Funny how things either remain in fashion, or the times catch up to them again.
That's why I kept all my paisley ties.
Foxes and Little Darlings... which one was Foxes again, was that also with Jodi Foster.. I do remember Little Darlings and the first time I watched it I was much younger than 18...
Looking back at it now, I have to say that I didn't understand half of it at the time, which is probably a good thing but then you have to ask why they're marketing it to such a young audience... on the other side, though, today's kids have at least some choices for a more wholesome entertainment...
High School Musical is a good example, the characters are in high school, but they don't even kiss - I've watched it and find it's very age appropriate for the middle school girls and a bit younger who like it. When I was in that age bracket, it was either cartoons or things like Little Darlings, and at a certain age cartoons were too babyish, so the choice was really not a choice at all.
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