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Materialistic Viewers

television set The few moral shortcomings of Christians have been magnified out of all proportion, while television vigorously defends the many failings of its own leaders and blackballs its critics with its formidable influence. Television does not believe in truth but prefers sensationalism, being happy to clip out any boring segments to please their customers. Unfortunately the Anglican Church of Canada is happy to do the same thing with its Bible Readings on Sundays. Their great desire to convince their supporters that "everything in the garden is rosy" means that they must take great energy to show only a loving God and hide his (shouldn't use the male pronoun) holiness and his justice. The end result is fragmented Bible Readings and heresy in their prayers.

Unrestrained Sexual License

Unrestrained sexual license is encouraged through liturgical story telling on TV soap operas like "The Young and Restless," "General Hospital," "Days of Our Lives" and "ER" Violence is also known to attract viewers. Kids are given what they want with "Power Rangers" and adults have their own police dramas like "Cops" (though the children can watch them too.)

Television Colonizes

Mad Money's Jim Cramer In aligning religion with business, television colonizes electronically. They connect worship with monetary gain in order to sell products to unsuspecting congregations. They present the case that television does not have a holy book or that it is no longer relevant, and then sets out to obliterate Biblical literacy. I remember doing a short news clip for a local TV station and being told not to mention "Jesus."

Replace the Printed Page

TV aspires to replace the printed page completely with the screen. Television heralds the end of the "book era" as we know it, in that no one needs to read anymore. And of course, T. V. absolutely forbids reference to the primary book, the Bible. As at the Creation, our culture still echoes the Satan snake in questioning the authority of God's Word, by asking "Did God say?" Television 's fundamental beliefs are denied publicly of course. This was illustrated by Moses Znaimer's documentary "T. V. T. V." which highlighted the competitive spirit between journalists of the printed page and TV producers.

Materialistic Era

Stephen enters heaven Viewers are presented with a materialistic Heaven on earth, here and now. One's purpose in life becomes to possess. There is nothing beyond death for them. Great care is taken to ensure that no one ever suggests an eternity or an afterlife. Because there is no belief in sin, there is no need for a Savior or a judgment.

Electronic Tabernacle

The electronic tabernacle called television, is open for almost twenty-four hours, every day of the year. The average congregation worships at their own home shrine for three hours every day. There are several million sanctuaries in Canada and tens of millions in the United States. Unlike most other religions, there is a wide variety of choice with over twenty different small sermons at the touch of a remote control button. Sermons explain the wonders of "mother nature" or of "technology" which has replaced God as the "Evolutionary Significant One" or focus on story telling in soap operas.

Question for Discussion

How does Materialism affect the Modern Church?

Television Colonizes Electronically.

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