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Update - Unfortunately, ti seems that Uncle Earl's Classic TV is not available on Fire Stick. Fooey.

 

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We have all been far more influenced by television, hollywood and most damaging, main stream media than we can imagine. Watching old timey shows sounds great and I like all of them but what of the modern commercials. According to those America is currently 90% black and 90% homosexual. The reprobates never wanted equal time, they wanted to take over and forget God period. Just saying.....

 

Lately been watching a lot of those videos of kids magnet fishing and divers (because I don't know what else to look at and it's clean, sometimes interesting) and documentaries, and a lot of OLD, old family cartoons for the kids.

The Internet went out last week, so I turned on the cable for the first time in years and now I can't see why anyone would willingly subject themselves to it.

If "bad company corrupts good morals" then I assume the root of that corruption would be ungodly influence, and if ungodly influence is the root cause of the corruption, then television is just the same kind of bad company in another form.

It's the same thing except it doesn't knock at the door and leave, it moves in and it swears in front of your children.

 

The Real Reason There Was a “Golden Age of Television”

 

On a side note, I find that I rarely watch TV, these days.

As a result, I believe I'm much better off, truth be told.

I don't advocate that anyone else follow my example, though.

I'm merely sharing my own approach, at this time.

 

Gunsmoke? Really?

I thought most Christians were agin drinking, gambling, and prostitution?

oh yeah, it’s American Christianity and the 21st Century

 

You forgot killing!... That old Baptist daddy of mine liked War movies too!

btw... Stop reading the Bible, its full of all the above!... Brother Glen

 

Yes, I would specifically recommend reading the Book of Judges.

 

I hope nobody's an I Love Lucy fan. Lying, hypocrisy, scheming against one's spouse, all the way to criminal behavior are all subjects of humor.

 

One thing I really like about Westerns is the dialogue, which reminds me of the KJV.

"I reckon your new to these parts. By the way, I believe I know some of your kinfolk. God forbid I tell that fella!"

 

Festus from Gunsmoke learnt me how to talk right proper with other fellers. If'n I foller his example, I can even talk so sweet to them gals that they would be apt to come along after me just like an ol' hound dog. Sometimes I gotta beat them off with a stick, don'tcha know. Wonder where ol' Doc is, as I'm feeling a mite peaked now.

 

Yes, we would all be better off

 

Oe the Honeymooners?

 

Actually, it was a very good message, as the marshal always won, and the bad guy got his just due!

maybe you preferred Lone ranger?

 

Ok. Help me out here

please see what you quoted.

prostitution is ok? I think not. Just read almost anywhere in the Bible

drunkesness and brawling are ok? What about be not drunk with wine. And yes I do drink alcohol but at not a drunkard. DT 14:26

 

Scripture says this. Ephesians 5:12 12It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

If it is shameful to mention those things then certainly it is shameful to watch those things.

Here is another;
2 Corinthians 6:17 17Therefore, "Come out from them and be separate, says the LORD. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you."

We as believers are to live a pure life and it is not only what comes out of us but what goes into us because what goes into us will manifest itself in what comes out of us.. So if a TV program has things in it not of the Lord we should not be watching it.

 

I recently listened to an old Lester Roloff radio prog in which he preaches a whole sermon denouncing TV.(But he never mentioned radio!) While I believe Roloff was a sincere Christian, he had several kooky ideas-TVs were all bad, water is the best medicine for anything, believed the KJVO myth, all psychiatry was harmful, among others, so I try to separate the wheat from the tares when listening to him.

A TV is like a knife, ball bat, car, or almost any other common object-it can be used for good or evil. Most have an over-200-channel capability, and one can find either pure Christian broadcasting or pure porn. It all depends upon who's holding the remote.