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Television Family Semicircles 20

baby and father Since the coming of television, we no longer have family circles - we have television family semicircles! Sociologist Reginald Bibby writes in Teen Trends, "If the pulpit was the place of proclamation about what was right and wrong in the past, the television screen is now the norm-creator in the modern world." Societal standards come from television!

Clergy Popular television programs decide the morals of our young people more than any church or preacher. These standards may well be undermined further by an uncensored Internet and World Wide Web. Maybe the television family semicircles will dissolve even further into a network of fantasy-driven solitaries glued to computer screens? Modern television while being supportive of individual rights and freedoms, ridicules the relevance of any institutional standard including the government, the police, the institutional church, the clergy and particularly the Bible. Ministers are often portrayed as either bumbling idiots or crazed Bible thumping fundamentalists. Clergy may well have as much training as doctors but they are still viewed as gullible fools. This, despite the fact that many of the developments in our society came as a result of the Christian concern for justice and search for truth.

"Television Family Semicircles"

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