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- God's Smuggler-Brother Andrew
- Great and Terrible Quest-Margaret Lovett
- Heavenly Man - Brother Yun
Friday, July 30, 2010
More randomness - does anyone else think PG-13 way too broad a movie rating? I remember when it was created, for the 3rd "Indiana Jones" movie in 1989 (OK - yes, I do remember that year well!!) and it was made because many movies had too much language/violence to qualify for PG but didn't for some reason or another need to be called "R" so they created an in-between. To me, PG-13 has become a catch-all category for lots of movies that want broad audience appeal (i.e., most people feel comfortable letting their teens go unchaperoned) but don't want to be penalized for their propensity for blood. I have seen at least 6 PG-13 movies since January that I really feel should be/would have been R rated just a few years ago. Open wide, fellow gluttonists!! They are shoving more and more goop into us in the name of entertainment and calling it OK. Reminds me of a verse: Romans 1:21-22 that tells us the fate of those who ignore God and good things, that even though people know God, they don't act like it and "they trivialized themselves into silliness" which is what we are not to do, but are to put our minds on good things, pure things, true things, authentic things, just things (Phil 4:8). I just wonder where our society thinks we are all going. The more and more junk we take in, the more we will resemble it. Remember those posters in the school lunchrooms when we were young: You Are What You Eat. I think even more accurate would be this poster: You Are What You Think. I think that's what Paul was trying to tell us, and why it was important enough to make a list of what we should think about in Philippians.
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