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NASB | Psalm 101:3 I will set no worthless thing before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; It shall not fasten its grip on me. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 101:3 I will set no worthless or wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the practice of those who fall away [from the right path]; It will not grasp hold of me. |
Subject: Ricki Lake: Moral Moron |
Bible Note: Ricki Lake: Moral Moron ____________________ "I frankly wish there was more clear thinking going on about moral issues, because then people wouldn't put up with moral morons like Ricki Lake. Oh, that's nasty; I'm calling her a name . No, I'm describing her. She is a moral moron. To put on a show that abuses people like this and take money for it is unconscionable. It's also unconscionable for people to watch it and enjoy it and to consider it entertainment." ____________________ 'Ricki Lake: Moral Moron 'by Gregory Koukl '. . .if you are one of the voyeurs who watches that show on a regular basis, shame on you. ____________________ 'I have pretty strong feelings about TV. I satisfy those feelings, for the most part, by ignoring it. ____________________ 'I wish most others would as well. I only watch TV once in a while. I watch videos. Occasionally, you'll catch me watching Biography on A and E because oftentimes, if I buy some food to bring home, that's what's on when I'm ready to sit down and eat. That's it. I'm not into network TV whatsoever. 'Every once in a while, though, for one reason or another, I stumble upon something. This first occasion of stumbling upon a particular show that I'm going to tell you about happened last week when I was at a friend's house. She's married and has kids and I just happened to catch a portion of this particular talk show. On the show, there was a reunion between two people. Two people who had been sweethearts in the past, had separated, and the gentleman was upset because he and his sweetheart had been apart for so long. He really wanted a reconciliation, so he arranged to meet his sweetheart on TV. The way the program works, is that the other person is invited to come to the show, yet they don't know what's going on. The first person sets it up for the audience, and then the whole thing is revolved around the sharing of something personal between two people. Everybody watches while the first one tells the audience what is going to happen, then they bring in the unsuspecting second party, the communication follows and the audience interacts with that. 'The problem is, in my view, the kind of communication that goes on here, because in this particular case, there was a young man explaining how his sweetheart was now estranged, he wanted his sweetheart back and on and on and on. They call his sweetheart in. His sweetheart, if you haven't guessed it already, is another man. An older man. The young man is 24, the older man is 33 or 35. The younger man pulls out a teddy bear and a bouquet of roses from underneath his chair, walks over, hands the teddy bear and the bouquet of roses to the other man--his lover--throws his arms around him and kisses him on the neck. They embrace. They come back and sit down and then the one basically proposes to the other in front of an admiring audience. This is called the Ricki Lake Show . 'If there are some of you out there who are listening and you say, "Oh, yeah, I know just what you're talking about," shame on you. Unless you know what I'm talking about because you also just happened to stumble upon that show. But if you are one of the voyeurs who watches that show on a regular basis, shame on you. I have never seen a more disgusting display of applause of immorality, or a more disgusting display of emotional rape of human beings as I saw that day. 'By the way, when I was at my friend's house, the mom was aware of what was going on, kind of in the background, that the kids were watching this show. I was disgusted, after I saw what happened on the show. I walked out of the room and I said "I can't take this. It's so disgusting to me." Mom said, "Yeah, it's really awful. I don't know how people can watch that." I turned around and said to Mom, "It's your TV." For some reason, she got the idea that she had no control over what her teenage children were watching. Everybody was turning up their noses, yet they were all watching and giving their point of view, instead of reaching over and just turning that blasted thing off. If you watch enough of that stuff, it starts to change the way you think. ( . . . ) 'I frankly wish there was more clear thinking going on about moral issues, because then people wouldn't put up with moral morons like Ricki Lake. Oh, that's nasty; I'm calling her a name . No, I'm describing her. She is a moral moron. To put on a show that abuses people like this and take money for it is unconscionable. It's also unconscionable for people to watch it and enjoy it and to consider it entertainment.' ____________________ To read more go to: (http://www.str.org/cgi-bin/daily_commentary.pl) |