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    558
    The Stranger - Thoughts on TV

    NCW 78, January-March 2003

    A few months before I was born, my Dad met a stranger who was new to our small Tennessee town. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer, and soon invited him to live with our family.

    The stranger was quickly accepted and was around to welcome me into the world a few months later.

    As I grew up I never questioned his place in our family. In my young mind, each member had a special niche. My brother, Bill, five years my senior, was my example. Fran, my younger sister, gave me an opportunity to play 'big brother' and develop the art of teasing. My parents were complementary instructors -- Mom taught me to love the word of God, and Dad taught me to obey it.

    But the stranger was our storyteller. He could weave the most fascinating tales. Adventures, mysteries and comedies were daily conversations. He could hold our whole family spell-bound for hours each evening. If I wanted to know about politics, history, or science, he knew it. He knew about the past, understood the present, and seemingly could predict the future. The pictures he could draw were so life-like that I would often laugh or cry as I watched. He was like a friend to the whole family. He took Dad, Bill and me to our first major league baseball game. He was always encouraging us to see the movies and he even made arrangements to introduce us to several movie stars.

    The stranger was an incessant talker. Dad didn't seem to mind-but sometimes Mom would quietly get up -- while the rest of us were enthralled with one of his stories of faraway places -- go to her room, read her Bible and pray. I wonder now if she ever prayed that the stranger would leave.

    You see, my Dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions. But this stranger never felt obligation to honor them. Profanity, for example, was not allowed in our house -- not from us, from our friends, or adults. Our longtime visitor, however, used occasional four letter words that burned my ears and made Dad squirm. To my knowledge the stranger was never confronted. My dad was a teetotaler who didn't permit alcohol in his home -- not even for cooking. But the stranger felt like we needed exposure and enlightened us to other ways of life. He offered us beer and other alcoholic beverages often. He made cigarettes look tasty, cigars manly, and pipes distinguished. He talked freely (probably too much too freely) about sex. His comments were sometimes blatant, sometimes suggestive, and generally embarrassing. I know now that my early concepts of the man-woman relationship were influenced by the stranger.

    As I look back, I believe it was the grace of God that the stranger did not influence us more. Time after time he opposed the values of my parents. Yet he was seldom rebuked and never asked to leave. More than thirty years have passed since the stranger moved in with the young family on Morningside Drive. He is not nearly so intriguing to my Dad as he was in those early years.

    But if I were to walk into my parents' den today, you would still see him sitting over in a corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures.

    His name you ask?

    We called him TV.

    Afterthoughts

    Television is not getting any purer, more ethical, or more moral. It is getting worse and worse each year. It is blatantly pornographic, violent, materialist, and occultic. And in addition, it is anti-Christian.

    The counsel of the Apostolate has for many years been that the TV does the family no good and positively harms it. There was a time when it was possible for parents to monitor TV so that their children were only exposed to good and upbuilding programs. Not only are there very, very few programs that are suitable, but the commercials - which regularly punctuate programs - are themselves saturated with evil. And if this is not enough, TV is competing for our time and affections.

    Unless you can maintain a round-the-clock surveillance of your TV, get rid of it. The truth of the matter is, though, that the TV is ususally used to give working mothers a break, reflecting another problem which is the need to get the mother out of the workplace and back at home. An alternative is to disconnect your TV from commercial stations and simply build up a good and wholesome video and DVD collection. Perhaps some educational and Christian channels might provide better content, though be aware of these, for not all Christian channels are truly 'Christian' and many educational channels promote false values and philosophies such as evolution. If in doubt, send the TV away and save your family!

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