According to Dr. Jane Brown, journalism professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "If you believe Sesame Street taught your four-year-old something, then you better believe MTV is teaching your 14-year-old something, because the influence doesn't stop when we come to a certain age."

There's no getting around it.  What our children watch on TV effects everything about them, especially their outlook on morality.  I think it's safe to say that just about everyone in America knows that the Hollywood elite and product advertisers intentionally target the young.  Those who don't believe it are either in deep denial or they're dumber than a fence post!  I say that only because advertisers don't even try to hide their marketing schemes from consumers.  Why should they?  Consumers don't seem to care that they're being brainwashed. 

So, what's behind the effort to turn our kids into good little hedonists?  Hollywood knows that if they can win our children over to their depraved worldview, they win the country.  Make no mistake about it: The anti-God crowd is winning our children.  And while parents are snoozing, youngsters are losing their innocence.

The worldview depicted in the majority of TV and films is anti-God. Yet Christian's viewing habits are not much different than the world's.  Believers regularly tune into programs where the men are portrayed as nothing move than oversexed, incompetent, disrespected boobs!  Where offspring are smarter and wiser than their dim-witted dads.  Granted, we are no longer under the law, we are free in Christ!  But that doesn't mean we're free to behave like Beavis and Butthead.  Believers are called to be holy, which means we should all be striving to be more like Christ.    That's a no-brainer.  So why are Christians not bothered by sitcoms that portray kids as cynical, full of sarcasm and, worse yet, show no respect for adults?  The answer is, they're worldly!  Instead of turning off the TV to protest the indecency foisted on the public, worldly Christians will plop down in their favorite chairs and chuckle through programs that are chock-full of profanity and sexual innuendo.  Question.  What would Jesus have you do?

What really gets my goat is when a child actor is on the set.   Case in point, 'Two and a Half Men' which stars Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer and adolescent actor Angus Jones.  The boy is exposed to vulgar lan

                 
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