What 'Game of Thrones' Says About America

ChristianHeadlines.com ^ | September 23, 2015 | Jim Denison

[Steve_Seattle]

Someone recommended "Game of Thrones" to me, so I bought the first season DVD. What I saw was seemingly an endless hump-fest with lots of public anal intercourse. I got rid of it.

As for what God thinks of all this, the Bible is clear, but God does not need to act through signs and wonders and lightning bolts, but usually by letting human folly play out according to its own inner dynamic. That is what I see happening now. I am not expecting The Rapture, but for full-blown social disintegration within 10-20 years, if not sooner.

[tbw2]

ISIS conquered the Yazidi to get religiously sanctioned sex slaves.
Kind of like the Dothraki.

[driftless2]

The wife and I watched a few episodes of GOT when we had HBO. Sleep inducing.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

The books are good. Martin is sort of the anti-Tolkien. Never watched the show - don’t have HBO.

[Morpheus2009]

I do not have HBO, and do not care.

[NetAddicted]

Public anal intercourse? OMG, I can’t believe this artistic garbage is on TV. Another sign of the coming end.

[fwdude]

God does not need to act through signs and wonders and lightning bolts, but usually by letting human folly play out according to its own inner dynamic. That is what I see happening now. I am not expecting The Rapture, but for full-blown social disintegration within 10-20 years, if not sooner.

This is only my opinion on the scriptures, but when God, through his inspired writers, said that "evil men... shall wax worse and worse," (2 Timothy 3:13) I think the idea conveyed was an exponential acceleration. The moral rot that took perhaps a decade to progress in the 70's will take only 6 months now, and only 3 months tomorrow.

We do not have even 10 years left, in my opinion.

[fwdude]

I've never read where God considered slavery a sin. I believe God expected those who had slaves to treat them well and allow them the Sabbath to rest.

The "slavery" meme has been allowed to completely be co-opted and misrepresent or mangled by the Left.

What was a slave in many former societies was, in many cases, nothing more than a servant, such as indentured servants of all nationalities and races which came to this country. Some slaves were permanent, others were temporary. Some offered themselves into slavery in order to survive a harsh political or economic environment, even to ADVANCE themselves, others were conscripted involuntarily.

That slavery wasn't the universal drudgery and misery that history revisionist would like us to believe is made clear by the fact that many ancient societies allowed for freed slaves to bind themselves for life to their master in an act of affection. That many probably did this is testament to the social usefulness of the practice.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I think the idea conveyed was an exponential acceleration. The moral rot that took perhaps a decade to progress in the 70's will take only 6 months now, and only 3 months tomorrow."

During the Obama years, elite (corporate, government, education) hostility to Christians is increasingly out in the open, and since the gay marriage ruling, it's really taken off.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

You’re missing a lot if you just see the sex scenes and throw everything else out. If conservatism is anything in my opinion, it’s about the recognition that actions have consequences, and Games of Thrones demonstrates that about as well as any piece of entertainment that I’ve ever seen.