The blessing of TV

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Caryle Clear wrote:

I suppose we should not go to the library either...

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Forget about reading the paper,  listening to the radio,  or anything.
We should all just "hole up" inside our homes (going to work might lead
to  "unholy influences"  too)  and never leave except to walk to church
(if your car happens to have a radio in it--why tempt yourself?   Also,
there's that evil demon of *technology* again)   or walk to the grocery
store (running past the evil magazine rack aisle).

Then, I guess, even witnessing to someone with AIDS (it might rub off),
or someone in prison (obviously), or some pregnant teenager (tsk, tsk),
or a homosexual person (could be contagious),  or any *sinner* for that
matter, is just too Spiritually dangerous.

PS--flames will not be replied to.

Robert McLaughlin observes:

The  habit  of  withdrawing  completely  from the world is not  without
precedent  in  the  religious  world.    The Catholic  Church  had  its
monasteries from the early days of Christian history.    It was thought
that  the   "brothers"   would fare better spiritually removed from the
influences of the world.

Perhaps some members of the list live in  areas  around or  near  Amish
communities.   Another present day example of those who view separation
from the world quite literally.

Sometimes I've wondered if we aren't  "Pentecostal Amish."  This is not
quite the contradiction in terms that one might think.

An examination of the lives and practices of the Ascetic would  perhaps
show us that true holiness  is  an  inside  job--and  simply  can't  be
accomplished by removing every ungodly influence from our lives.

Let's hear it for  proper  choices  made  with  the  prompting  of  the
Holy Ghost.   Those who always have the choices made for them will lose
the ability to choose at all.
--
Robert C. McLaughlin
pmclaugh@sdcoe.k12.ca.us
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