Not sure about this, but I may have had a revelation: the devil is using media to steer an entire country and culture. Liliya and I were on a drive down to LA and we turned the radio on and scanned to the first channel that came through the static. "Hits 93.1 Bakersfield". The first song that came on was about dirty sex and chains. I turned it off. A few minutes passed so I turned the volume back up. Next song: Also about sex...sex with aliens. I decided to start counting. The next ten songs that played were primarily about sex. Two out of the ten weren't, but they were about partying. (Also interesting to note, four of the songs had the phrase, "I'm a devil/demon" or "you're a devil/demon" in them). Pretty amazing, the top songs on the radio right now are all about sex; painting their pictures with extremely graphic words. These are the songs that most of my students listen to, memorize and sing along with without consideration. Wow...scary stuff. They get 30 minutes of Bible lessons each week at youth group and the rest of the time their minds are blasted with Kanye West, Katie Perry, The Bachelor, Twilight, Cosmopolitan and countless other outlets of trash. I was trying to think back to what was on the radio when I was younger. "KISS FM": Backstreet boys, Ace of Base...sappy love songs mostly....but no vulgar sex.
An aquantance that teaches Jr. High said there is a pandemic of pornography amongst the Jr. High students at their school. Twelve and thirteen year old girls are taking pictures of their naked bodies and texting them to boys from class. Teachers are catching seventh graders having sex in the bathrooms! Where are these young children learning this stuff? Turn the T.V. on and you'll find the answer. It's no wonder our youth are engaging in insane activities...their eyes, ears, hearts and minds are swimming up a constant stream of filth that pours from T.V's, movie screens, and radio stations. They are simply repeating what the media tells them is normal and acceptable behavior. Media hasn't always been this vulgar. The great deceiver knows that this stuff would've been boycotted had he started pushing it out immediately in the potency that we see today. He's been working at turning this ship for a long time. It has been a slow, methodical process of brainwashing and conditioning. Things we laugh at today would've never been tolerated fifty years ago. But that's the whole point...He's steering this ship, and we're letting him do it.
What do you think? Am I being oversensitive? Would we see the same corruption of our youth if there was no media? Let me know your thoughts.
An aquantance that teaches Jr. High said there is a pandemic of pornography amongst the Jr. High students at their school. Twelve and thirteen year old girls are taking pictures of their naked bodies and texting them to boys from class. Teachers are catching seventh graders having sex in the bathrooms! Where are these young children learning this stuff? Turn the T.V. on and you'll find the answer. It's no wonder our youth are engaging in insane activities...their eyes, ears, hearts and minds are swimming up a constant stream of filth that pours from T.V's, movie screens, and radio stations. They are simply repeating what the media tells them is normal and acceptable behavior. Media hasn't always been this vulgar. The great deceiver knows that this stuff would've been boycotted had he started pushing it out immediately in the potency that we see today. He's been working at turning this ship for a long time. It has been a slow, methodical process of brainwashing and conditioning. Things we laugh at today would've never been tolerated fifty years ago. But that's the whole point...He's steering this ship, and we're letting him do it.
What do you think? Am I being oversensitive? Would we see the same corruption of our youth if there was no media? Let me know your thoughts.