All this article does is show that the amount of saints in America is extremely low.
Those who follow Jesus don’t have cable or go to the cinema. If they feel the need to watch a program they rent a Godly one.
Those who follow Jesus don’t send their children to the anti-Christ government school. They home school them. They don’t send them to anti-Christ Scouting, they find a Godly organization instead.
Those who follow Jesus don’t send their children to anti-Christ college. The only reason for college is for engineering, medical, science, or law, and they either find a school staffed by fellow saints that teach these disciplines, or they use internet schooling.
The most important thing in this world to do, other than accepting Jesus’ sacrifice in your name, is to marry, have a lot of children (13 or more) and to teach them morality. Morality comes solely from the Bible, it is another way of saying, ‘teaching the Bible’. Nothing is more important than teaching them morality and if they learn nothing else, it is still a complete success. There is no civilized society without morality.
People in America don’t want children, and they don’t want to raise the child they have. They tell themselves that the best thing to do is to send their offspring to government school so that they can be socialized in wickedness. These ‘parents’ don’t believe that morals are important enough to teach anyway. The truth is that it is almost impossible to learn morals from any other source but from the example and teachings of one’s parents. If it is not learned there, then a person must spend the rest of their lives studying the Bible and trying to teach themselves.
Those who follow Jesus don’t subscribe to anti-Christ magazines or listen to anti-Christ radio or play anti-Christ games. If they feel the need for these things they partake of Godly sources.
If the anti-Christ government forces a follower of Jesus to perform some action that is against Jesus, they simply sell their business and find another way to make a living. If their money is stolen via taxes to perform anti-Christ activities, they would do everything in their power to avoid these taxes and to change the tax system. They could do subsistence living in a state without property taxes, for example. Or, they could run for government on a fair/flat tax platform (and they won’t change into an anti-Christ when they get to Washington.)
If the majority of people in a society were actually in the Body of Christ, then anti-Christ content sources would quickly go out of business. If these sources are funded by tax money stolen from the saints, they would be doing everything in their power to avoid and change that system, even leaving the country or rebelling.
Ergo, the amount of saints in America is extremely small. What kind of society is it that can’t even imagine not watching the filth on TV? What kind of society is it that makes an article crying that the Body of Christ cannot avoid anti-Christ society? Of course the saints can avoid wicked things.
This article’s purpose is to tell the saints to stop spreading the Good News. To get them to stop all that worthless witnessing and spreading of the Gospel and to instead focus on becoming a TV station owner. What part of the Bible is that teaching from?
Why is TV so important to these people? Is their sexual brokenness so severe that they cannot imagine giving up that source of continual soft porn? Are they so seeped in wickedness that they need to watch crude cartoon characters curse and blaspheme in order to be able to laugh? What kind of society even finds that something to laugh at? An anti-Christ society. A society who’s majority is not in the Body of Christ.
I didn't read the author saying that. I heard him say that having a majority culture is a good thing, but that without targeting leadership within that culture, you still have ungodly leadership.
There is logic to it. The only reason I mentioned TV networks is because they have such a profound impact on both culture and on political campaigns.
While I agree with the intent of your long post, it is possible to resist many of the world's temptations and also utilize media not just for relaxation, but also to understand the culture towards which we need to be missionaries.
I saw The Passion of Christ (both versions) in the cinema; as well as The Nativity Story, Amazing Grace, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Prince of Egypt, and One Night with the King (story of Esther), all in first-run movie theaters. I've also rented DVDs of Luther, Saint Francis of Assisi, and a number of other Bible-themed films. On television, I watched The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Ten Commandments, Fireproof, and the recent, excellent cable series The Bible.
Also on cable, although it is a vast wasteland, are shows of Christian people who are "in the world, but not of the world", such as Dog the Bounty Hunter and Duck Dynasty, two family groups that pray together and work together on reality tv, as well as news commentators Laura Ingraham, Anne Coulter and Glenn Beck, who frequently mention their various Christian points of view. There are several all-religion Protestant cable channels and an excellent Catholic cable channel which has much to offer all Christians, EWTN. Even broadcast tv offers shows that feature Christian or Catholic characters, such as The Mentalist, in which one major crime-fighting character always wears a cross, and several characters frequently try to convince the agnostic protagonist that there is an afterlife.