Frankly, I am horribly horribly offended by the things I have witnessed. How many times I have sat down and watched a TV Show or listened to a song, or read a book and have been interrupted by disturbing images of darkness, either in the form of terrible sexual misconduct or the form of inappropriate violence. It it sickening. Several times while I was on my mission, this thought came across me as I watched investigators that were ravished with pornography, or suffering from the guilt of sexual misconduct and really, it is very sad. We live in a day and age where the common hero of the show is someone who is praised for their obscene love of blood and killing, who say horribly vulgar things and who participate in unchaste and provocative things on a daily basis.
Why?
Because that is what the mind of the natural man wants.
There is nothing more tragic than to see a perfectly beautiful story, told with talent and with poise be terribly mangled and hacked at by the ax of transgression and immorality. I can give you a very long list, but lets just mention a few.
Revolution: Fantastic story, realistic and genius, spoiled by loads and loads of mangled, hacked up, or shot bodies with literally over twenty people dropping dead in the first episode only to have more including slit throats, shooting and torture by knives in the second episode.
Lost: A wonderfully told story spoiled by buckets of blood splashed on things, drugs used often and more mangled bodies up in trees and that's just the beginning. Deaths include buried alive as well.
Supernatural: A very intriguing and fun scary show, unfortunately butchered with gore and violence and disturbing satanic images.
And recently the most tragic: Sherlock: My favorite show. I finally found a show that I can love. Intense. A little dark, but totally clean. Right? WRONG. Season two begins with a new reveal of tons and tons of swearing and completely nude women with more references to gay things than the first season.
Do I have a delicate mind. Likely. Does that change something wrong to right? No. I am saddened beyond belief and that is exactly why I decided long ago that I was going to be the one to make all of the stories that are good from Zombie apocalypse stories to detective stories and do it right! Do it morally right. And so that is exactly what I am going to do and I pray to my Father in Heaven that he will forgive me for the shows I have tried to justify even more a second and to give me the strength to write the stories that people need to hear. Things that are safe.
Here is a quote of what I feel worded by Jeffery R. Holland: "Most days we all find ourselves assaulted by immoral messages of some kind flooding in on us from every angle. The darker sides of the movie, television, and music industry step further and further into offensive language and sexual misconduct."
What we need is morality. What we need is the old moral play. We need pure love. Real love. The love between God and Man and between Man and Woman that is real. That is pure. That is clean. That is chaste and selfless. Not this false, putrid lust that throws up all over my favorite shows. I won't stand for it for another second. I won't do it. I believe in Christ. I believe he has power to overcome all these things and that he will help me. He will help anyone who comes unto him and believes.
And I commit that I will never flinch in the face of sacrifice. Not even for a second. As for TV shows, I guess I can never find one that is for me. So, with Gods power and with the atonement to help, I will make one.
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