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What’s Really Scary on Halloween
The funniest news item of the week is actually rather revealing … and ultimately should be viewed as a prophetic (and scary) sign of the times in which we live.
Did you hear how supertankers and merchant ships in the Indian Ocean are scaring away Muslim (Somali) pirates?
They blast Brittany Spears music at them.
Literally.
These Muslims view western culture as offensive. And Brittany Spears represents the very worst we have to offer.
And guess what … this ought to be a prophetic shaming for us and our culture.
Pirates, by definition, have a compromised sense of morality. They willing plunder, steal, terrorize, and (if necessary) kill. But in their mind that’s not nearly as offensive as what we Americans invite into our living rooms on an almost nightly basic.
We set up an altar in our family rooms (the television). We turn every chair to face the altar. We gather our children before this altar. And even if it’s only for the commercials, we invite something that’s arguably worse than theft – provocativeness and sex – into our homes, into our children, and into our hearts.
Scary.
In Christ’s Love,
a child of our culture who’s
justified a lot of TV over the years
but has run out of excuses
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