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Ron Luce, a popular Christian blogger, believes there is one or more terrorists in your home. There might even be one in the room with you at the time you are reading this. You yourself might even be the culprit!
According to him, allowing your kids to play violent video games or view "sex-scenes" is just as bad, if not worse, than allowing a thief or a sexual predator spend time alone with your kids. He tries to rip the entertainment industry a new one, but I think we can all see through this.
You may be surprised at how many terrorists there are in your home right now. Video games, computers, cell phones, teen magazines, music, TV, & movies: all of which fall under the umbrella of entertainment and all are likely perpetrators. But in particular, entertainment in the form of movies, television and music is what is shaping our young generation. Although we consider them entertainment, they are actually infotainment. They impart values and information about the world, maybe information about life, that your kids are not ready to process and absorb. The problem is that too many parents use these avenues to keep their kids occupied, allowing them to witness just a part of the unavoidable culture in which we live. For example, television, broadcasts some 20,000 sex scenes that the average young person will view by the time he or she graduates from high school!
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( Or; Kindly shut up and crawl back under your rock. )
Whichever really.
*bleep* OFF.
A hilarious read though.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one GG and go with the Pedophile.
WHERE DO THESE PEOPLE COME FROM ?
"For example, television, broadcasts some 20,000 sex scenes that the average young person will view by the time he or she graduates from high school!"
20k? Really now? I dunno which channels he got when he was a kid, but I wouldn't have minded it.
*nods head and facepalm*
Finally, sex and violence has been a prevalent part of humanity forever. Read any novel, any play, any mythology, and you will find heaps of sex and violence, often far more vivid than the vast majority of television and games. This includes the Bible, which has many, many cases of extreme violence, genocide, adultery, prostitution, etc.
And oh yeah gamers are terorrists too, umm-hmm, yeah I let me go bomb my local Wal-Mart for no god damn reason other than being a gamer since I was 3! I am sure Suddam is a huge Halo fan, and hits up xbox live everyday!
Whoever wrote this needs to learn, PROPER LOGIC, fit for THIS SOCIETY.
He makes some questionable statements, and the way he argues his point is flawed, (infotainment?! wtf?!), and yes that smug photo makes him look like an ass, but at the root he makes a reasonable argument that it is irresponsible to allow kids free access to potential explicit/violent material. I'm not saying that I agree with what he is saying, merely that you are a total hypocrite in the way you attempt to paint him as a sensationalist idiot, when you are doing exactly the same thing.
*prepares for the thumbs down*
He's overdramatizicing the effects of the media to children. I don't believe children will get automatically addicted to TV, EVERYONE listens to music and he can't deny that so depriving his kids of music is just unneccessary. Those evil things we call "computers" are now being used for social networking and for researching and homeworks, etc.
In other words, this guy needs a different perspective, he's generally opposing modern entertainment and probably not for the right reasons.
My preacher and I are gamers as well as our entire youth group!
look at games like Left behind:Eternal forces ,and The Bible Game.
there is nothing wrong with gaming as long as you don't get obsessed with them!
Now, instead of posting my normal Long comments, I'll keep it very short. Yes introducing kids to violent acts and sexual content repeatedly (then interactively as video games are), DO affect people through desensitization. No argument there. This is where much is based.
However, not all video games are like that. The video games that are not like that, should be fine for parents to let kids have fun with. This is just another reminder for Parents to be . . . PARENTS!!! Watch what your kids are involved with. LIMIT things that are not positive, and TALK to your kids to make sure they don't become so desensitized through only hearing the negative over and over again! Be parents, and be good parents instead of parents who teach kids "If it feels good, do it" way of thinking that ruins society.
Okay, sorry, that wasn't as short as I thought.
Plan and simple, the guy is saying that there is media out there that kids probably shouldn't see and that PARENTS, YES HE SAID PARENTS should use their discretion in what they should or should not allow them to see.
Granted, his methods are a bit extreme for my tastes. Yes, there is a world of things that gets mass produced that kids should not be into but it's a parents job to only help protect them from it but to help them understand it. Hiding them from the world is not going to teach them how to be better people in it.
If any of you would have taken the time to fully read the article, he's saying the media channels (i.e. tv/movies/games) is the terrorists not the user. As they are "attacking" the world's youth.
...Wait, no I didn't.
Hilarious.
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