In the 1990s Rod Dreher was working as a professional film critic who reviewed numerous films with graphic violence. But just before the birth of his first child, he went from watching eight to 10 movies a week to almost none. One day while holding his newborn son he started watching a well-known film, but then he quickly turned it off, sickened by the violence. What changed? Dreher writes:
I had become a father, that's what. I could not sit in my armchair cradling that fragile newborn boy in my arms, and watch human beings savaged on the screen .... Welcoming a baby into our home taught me [how obscene] violence can be. I once took pleasure in watching this kind of thing. Now, something within me said no, this is unclean.
I had not realized how desensitized I had become merely by constant exposure to movies that were brutal, and featured torrents of profanity and coarse sexuality. What I thought was normal was not normal at all, or at least not morally sane, not in any world I wanted my son to grow up in.*
There comes a time in every honest Christian's life when they must (by God's grace,) come face to face with themselves and the activities that they participate in.
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." Phillipians 4:8
Have a great day and God bless!
Pastor Mike / The Open Word
