The Demonic Television and it’s Wake

THE AVERAGE CABLE TV BILL IN THE US HAS TOPPED $100 MONTH! SPENDING $1,200 PER YEAR ON TV WILL GET YOU A SPOT IN THE LAKE OF FIRE FOR SURE AS 20,000_ PRECIOUS CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS OLD DIE DAILY FROM MAN-MADE POVERTY. LET’S LOOK AT THE CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE BELOW THAT MAKES GOD ANGRY TO NO END.

 

According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (or 28 hours/week, or 2 months of nonstop TV-watching per year). In a 65-year life, that person will have spent 9 years glued to the tube. This is an old set of statistics too, look to the right and cringe! Now 5.11 hrs/day!!!GODLESS!If you are allowing your children to watch this filthy TV PROGRAMMING, you will be condemned! (Goes for YOU TOO!) Not to mention the hundreds+ spent yearly on cable TV. REMEMBER! 21,000 CHILDREN and 9,000 adults die DAILY from man-made poverty!!! Now, WWJD? Spend $25, $40, $50+ MONTHLY on TV or use that money to FEED THE POOR?!?

One of the great dangers of television besides the blatant sin that is so common on it is how it changes your perception of reality; the Bible speaks about reality from God’s perspective- and that IS TRUTH.  Every other perspective which opposes that is error and the deceit of the world stemming from Satan and the corrupted minds of fallen man.  The indoctrination of television can be overt but more often it is subtle; and that subtle stuff is even more dangerous.  The television is truly a one-eyed monster and if you want to walk close to the Lord and build on, rather than lose, what you have gained with the Lord you would do well to keep away from it.  Television is also addictive; notice how hard it is to look at it for one second and turn away without looking back.

 

I’ve seen this magnetic, hypnotic effect magnified with little kids.  They can be happy, thoughtful, and well-adjusted to their surroundings; then they get put in front of television- they become withdrawn, irritable, nearly mindless, and upset with anyone who gets in the way of the screen or who in any way distracts them from the screen.  This is a dangerous thing and its having the same basic effects on adults to some degree.  I looked up randomly at the hospital a few hours ago and noticed without even trying that 3 rooms on 3 floors one on top of the other all had the TV on. People who are especially likely to be dying soon and should especially be seeking God like there’s no tomorrow are just comforting themselves with the opiate of the television instead.  This may be the biggest false god in America.  I urge you not to toy around with it and I can almost guarantee God’s presence and your comprehension of truth will increase in your life when you get it out of home and do your utmost to keep away from it

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12:1-2

Television not only doesn’t aid this transformation, it also works in favor of the very opposite of this transformation

“19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.” (1 John 5:19-21

Could these verses somehow not apply to television?  I don’t see how they could not.

Proverbs 22:6  Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it

Psalm 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me

1 Thessalonians 5:22  Abstain from ALL appearance of evil.

Matthew 18:5-10 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

I. FAMILY LIFE

Percentage of households that possess at least one television: 99
Number of TV sets in the average U.S. household: 2.24
Percentage of U.S. homes with three or more TV sets: 66
Number of hours per day that TV is on in an average U.S. home: 6 hours, 47 minutes
Percentage of Americans that regularly watch television while eating dinner: 66
Number of hours of TV watched annually by Americans: 250 billion
Value of that time assuming an average wage of S5/hour: S1.25 trillion
Percentage of Americans who pay for cable TV: 56
Number of videos rented daily in the U.S.: 6 million
Number of public library items checked out daily: 3 million
Percentage of Americans who say they watch too much TV: 49

II CHILDREN
Approximate number of studies examining TV’s effects on children: 4,000
Number of minutes per week that parents spend in meaningful conversation with their children: 3.5
Number of minutes per week that the average child watches television: 1,680
Percentage of day care centers that use TV during a typical day: 70
Percentage of parents who would like to limit their children’s TV watching: 73
Percentage of 4-6 year-olds who, when asked to choose between watching TV and spending time with their fathers, preferred television: 54
Hours per year the average American youth spends in school: 900 hours
Hours per year the average American youth watches television: 1500

III VIOLENCE
Number of murders seen on TV by the time an average child finishes elementary school: 8,000
Number of violent acts seen on TV by age 18: 200,000
Percentage of Americans who believe TV violence helps precipitate real life mayhem: 79

IV. COMMERCIALISM
Number of 30-second TV commercials seen in a year by an average child: 20,000

 

Number of TV commercials seen by the average person by age 65: 2 million

Percentage of survey participants (1993) who said that TV commercials aimed at children make them too materialistic: 92

 

Rank of food products/fast-food restaurants among TV advertisements to kids: 1

Total spending by 100 leading TV advertisers in 1993: $15 billion


V. GENERAL
Percentage of local TV news broadcast time devoted to advertising: 30
Percentage devoted to stories about crime, disaster and war: 53.8
Percentage devoted to public service announcements: 0.7
Percentage of Americans who can name The Three Stooges: 59
Percentage who can name at least three justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: 1***Compiled by TV-Free America

Influence of Television

For decades, research and studies have demonstrated that heavy television-viewing may lead to serious health consequences. Now the American medical community, which has long-voiced its concerns about the nation’s epidemic of violence, TV addiction and the passive, sedentary nature of TV-watching, is taking a more activist stance, demonstrated by its endorsement of National TV-Turnoff Week.

The average child will watch 8,000 murders on TV before finishing elementary school. By age eighteen, the average American has seen 200,000 acts of violence on TV, including 40,000 murders. At a meeting in Nashville, TN last July, Dr. John Nelson of the American Medical Association (an endorser of National TV-Turnoff Week) said that if 2,888 out of 3,000 studies show that TV violence is a casual factor in real-life mayhem, “it’s a public health problem.” The American Psychiatric Association addressed this problem in its endorsement of National TV-Turnoff Week, stating, “We have had a long-standing concern with the impact of television on behavior, especially among children.”

Millions of Americans are so hooked on television that they fit the criteria for substance abuse as defined in the official psychiatric manual, according to Rutgers University psychologist and TV-Free America board member Robert Kubey. Heavy TV viewers exhibit five dependency symptoms–two more than necessary to arrive at a clinical diagnosis of substance abuse. These include: 1) using TV as a sedative; 2) indiscriminate viewing; 3) feeling loss of control while viewing; 4) feeling angry with oneself for watching too much; 5) inability to stop watching; and 6) feeling miserable when kept from watching.Violence and addiction are not the only TV-related health problems. A National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey released in October 1995 found 4.7 million children between the ages of 6-17 (11% of this age group) to be severely overweight, more than twice the rate during the 1960’s. The main culprits: inactivity (these same children average more than 22 hours of television-viewing a week) and a high-calorie diet. A 1991 study showed that there were an average of 200 junk food ads in four hours of children’s Saturday morning cartoons.According to William H. Deitz, pediatrician and prominent obesity expert at Tufts University School of Medicine, “The easiest way to reduce inactivity is to turn off the TV set. Almost anything else uses more energy than watching TV.”Children are not the only Americans suffering from weight problems; one-third of American adults are overweight. According to an American Journal of Public Health study, an adult who watches three hours of TV a day is far more likely to be obese than an adult who watches less than one hour.Sometimes the problem is not too much weight; it’s too little. Seventy-five percent of American women believe they are too fat, an image problem that often leads to bulimia or anorexia. Sound strange? Not when one takes into account that female models and actresses are twenty-three percent thinner than the average woman and thinner than ninety-five percent of the female population.

THROW OUT THE TV AND GET TO THE CROSS

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