Television is designed and engineered to attract people to pick fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil: for everything a human mind can desire to watch is in their homes, and available 24/7, from anywhere in the world.
On television now is The End of Days, which is the sum total of everything that is available on television. It is not necessarily the way life is for people, but it is a world that is being painted in the minds of people of the way life should be.
For television is about CHANGE---changing the minds of people without them realizing their minds have been changed. Changing their minds, changing their viewpoints, opinions, values, and making behaviors more acceptable. Over time and in slow and subtle ways, people will gradually accept the unacceptable: that things once forbidden are now current trends; that things that were once old school are now new school. Off with the old and in with the new, just as a snake sheds his old skin in exchange for new skin. A new way of walking and a new way of talking.
Television creates a craving in the minds of people, and the more people salivate, the more they seek satisfaction. And the more and more they continue to salivate, the more new desires are hatched in their minds. They will hunger and thirst for more, more, more. For television time is feeding time.
Beyond television, there is the fast-food industry that began with the simple philosophy: create a craving in the mouths of toddlers and they can keep customers for a lifetime. Knowing this, would it be fair to say that Ronald McDonald has had more influence in the minds of children than Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny? Buy a box and get a reward, free of charge: toys!
Religion and many churches, too, have been operating with the philosophy of fast-food restaurants: create a craving in the minds of toddlers and there they will remain for a lifetime. Separate children from adults and their little minds can be programmed by ministers and teachers of self-righteousness while parents are getting adult doses in the main auditorium. Is it interesting that churches adopted the word "auditorium" in exchange for "sanctuary"?
In some churches, however, men and women are not separated, and children are not separated from adults---while they worship the Lord together: in sanctuaries, and not in auditoriums.
Meanwhile, the ministers and priests of fast-food establishments release their members at chow time so that can rush to the fast-food diners so they can rush home to turn on their televisions to watch the continuing saga of The End of Days, the sum total of television: with its regularly-scheduled programs, sporting events, game shows, kids' shows, news shows, and commercials---straight from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
God? Do people really have time for God when they salivate for the things of this world?
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned into fables. (2 Timothy 4: 3-4)
On television now is The End of Days, which is the sum total of everything that is available on television. It is not necessarily the way life is for people, but it is a world that is being painted in the minds of people of the way life should be.
For television is about CHANGE---changing the minds of people without them realizing their minds have been changed. Changing their minds, changing their viewpoints, opinions, values, and making behaviors more acceptable. Over time and in slow and subtle ways, people will gradually accept the unacceptable: that things once forbidden are now current trends; that things that were once old school are now new school. Off with the old and in with the new, just as a snake sheds his old skin in exchange for new skin. A new way of walking and a new way of talking.
Television creates a craving in the minds of people, and the more people salivate, the more they seek satisfaction. And the more and more they continue to salivate, the more new desires are hatched in their minds. They will hunger and thirst for more, more, more. For television time is feeding time.
Beyond television, there is the fast-food industry that began with the simple philosophy: create a craving in the mouths of toddlers and they can keep customers for a lifetime. Knowing this, would it be fair to say that Ronald McDonald has had more influence in the minds of children than Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny? Buy a box and get a reward, free of charge: toys!
Religion and many churches, too, have been operating with the philosophy of fast-food restaurants: create a craving in the minds of toddlers and there they will remain for a lifetime. Separate children from adults and their little minds can be programmed by ministers and teachers of self-righteousness while parents are getting adult doses in the main auditorium. Is it interesting that churches adopted the word "auditorium" in exchange for "sanctuary"?
In some churches, however, men and women are not separated, and children are not separated from adults---while they worship the Lord together: in sanctuaries, and not in auditoriums.
Meanwhile, the ministers and priests of fast-food establishments release their members at chow time so that can rush to the fast-food diners so they can rush home to turn on their televisions to watch the continuing saga of The End of Days, the sum total of television: with its regularly-scheduled programs, sporting events, game shows, kids' shows, news shows, and commercials---straight from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
God? Do people really have time for God when they salivate for the things of this world?
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned into fables. (2 Timothy 4: 3-4)
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