TV Channels Christians Should Ban

If you want to avoid evil programming, don't get cable or satellite, and don't watch network TV aside from sports, news, and local shows. Also, be forewarned that computers and smart phones with Internet are potentially far more dangerous than TV.

But if you must have cable, there are some channels that are heads above rest in terms of the evil they promote. Christians should use the controls of program menus to block the channels listed below.

However, if you block them, your children may see them at a friend's house and may wonder why you don't get them. If they asked, you would have to tell them that you blocked the channels. Your kids may develop a forbidden fruit mentality with respect to such TV channels and may want to watch them more than if you hadn't blocked them. So it is best not to get cable at all, so that the collection of cable channels will be out of sight and out of mind, so to speak. But if you must get cable, here are the channels to ban:

BET
MTV
MTV2
VH1
VH1 Classic
Fuse
CMT
GAC
Comedy Central
SPIKE
G4
IFC  
E!
Oxygen
All movie channel packages including: HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, Sundance, STARZ, FOX Movie Channel, etc.
Any other channels you see fit to block.

Explanations
BET (Viacom) BET used to have a show called "BET Uncut", which featured rap videos with sexual themes. They used to have prosperity preacher infomercials come on right after it. Anyway, programming may revert back to such shows as Uncut. At present, some comic shows exhibit lewd jokes about sex.

MTV, MTV2 (Viacom) Obviously, this is one of the worst channels in terms of glorifying degenerate behavior. It is marketed to teenagers, so it is particularly dangerous. Jersey Shore is worse than the Real World was, because the Jersey Shore people are a rare breed of "sophisticated" partiers who do nothing with their lives other than party. The Real World characters also partied a lot and had more sex to boot, but they were a little more human. Teen Mom puts the focus on girls who've had premarital sex and illegitimate children, quite a model of the family for young viewers. There's also the Jackass type shows. Jackass is more gruesome and disturbing than anything the proto-Jackass character Tom Green ever did. The PBS documentary, The Merchants of Cool, identifies people who do such degrading things for attention as Mooks. The mooks on Jackass influenced some of my friends growing up, as they would mimic them by doing goofy daredevil stuff. There's also shallow shows like Made, which teach young people not how to do good things but rather how to be cool. In sum, these shows promote the antithesis of what most people want their kids to become. This is not to mention the relationship to pop music these networks promote, all of which is derived from voodoo, and which is naturally conducive to immorality and sometimes Satanism. (Rock, pop, rap, Jazz, the Blues, reggae, and some techno are part of the voodoo-derived family tree.)

If you want to know why rock music is bad, watch Pastor Joe Schimmel's They Sold Their Souls for Rock and Roll, read David Tame's The Secret Power of Music, Fr Basil Cole's Music and Morals, Fr Basil Nortz's Music and Morality, E. Michael Jones's Dionysus Rising, watch Br Michael Dimond's Abortion and Rock Music, watch Pastor Mike Hoggard's The Occult in Christian Music, read the Music and Morality tab on the Ob Lure, and most importantly, consult your own conscience.


VH1, VH1 Classic (Viacom) These networks aren't quite as bad as MTV but still have similar garbage reality shows and feature pop music.

Fuse This network actually aired a show called "Dance Off Pants Off", a competition in which people danced to music while stripping off all their clothes, or, in other words, an excuse to attract viewers with more explicit pornography than what is aired on MTV. Whether or not shows like this are presently aired, the network should be banned for its promotion of pop music.

CMT (Viacom) , GAC Modern Country music is nothing but rock music with air horns and twangy singing. Often, the same themes in rock and rap videos such as Jay-Z's Big Pimpin' with lots of bikini women are found in some country music videos. Also, the songs usually concern mundane things like sitting around a campfire and drinking beer. In any case, because modern country is rock music and therefore descended from voodoo, it should be avoided.

Comedy Central (Viacom) This network has a history of bad programming. Its most recent addition is Tosh 2.0. The comedian Tosh has a good wit, but he is too cruel and gruesome. Comedy Central is where "The Man Show" originated, which compacts manhood into beer drinking and lusting after pretty women. South Park is creative but rudely debauched. Humor is fine, but there's no need to fill it with extreme sexual perversion, indifference to murder, and general inhuman themes. The movies aired follow suit with the shows, as is the case with movies shown on MTV, VH1, and Fuse.

SPIKE TV (Viacom) This network fancies itself as The Man Show turned into an entire network. Programming is similar to Comedy Central, with The Man Show being formerly featured, as well as movies like American Pie.

G4 In the past it has aired The Man Show, and presently airs Campus PD, which displays delinquent and criminal behavior in college kids.

IFC Before airing commercials, the network was uncut and would often show movies rife with nudity like Dancing at the Blue Iguana. Other movies included those too disturbing for mainstream cable, such as Quills, Requiem for a Dream, Hostel, Boys Don't Cry, over-the-top grotesque horror films, and demented films with real-life drag queens as the main characters. People may think they're being cool by watching artsy independent films on IFC because they're getting off the beaten path of feature films tailored to the dumbed down masses. But most of these artsy movies are moral garbage no matter how artful they may be. Moreover, their artfulness is more image than real artistic quality. IFC used to air documentaries with sexual perverts who would glorify sexual perversion in film. They cast filmmakers who showed nudity and perverted sexual behaviors as pioneers. Presently, bad films are still shown on IFC, although now they are somewhat censored because of commercials. It's better to fill the limited time in your life with other things.

E! This network has the typical cold-blooded paparazzi shows with hosts joyfully mocking the periodic personal struggles of celebrities. Also, the Kardashian reality TV shows proliferate, along with the Comic Chelsea Handler who joked about an abortion that was performed on her. Today they air censored Sex in the City episodes, but these are nothing compared with the shows of the past, namely, the perverted "Howard Stern" and the risque "Wild On!" But the shows of the present are still bad enough to warrant blocking the network.

Oxygen This should be banned primarily for its history of airing infomercials at night selling the sort of stuff found in adult bookstores.

Movie Channel Packages HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, Sundance, STARZ, FOX Movie Channel, etc. Besides airing soft core porn from time to time, these networks have plenty of uncensored R movies. However, TMC should be no worse than what is aired on network TV.

Additionally, channels not mentioned here may become worse in the future, so use your own discretion. Moreover, blocking the channels listed above won't keep all of the demons in Pandora's Box away from your home, and it's up to you as to what degree of malevolence you'll tolerate from them. In any case, the channels above must absolutely be barred from your TV if you want to protect your children and yourself from wasting your lives with a view to a heightened evil. Finally, if you decide to block these and other channels, don't neglect implementing a block on Internet because it is far more dangerous than even these channels for obvious reasons. Just don't screen out the Oblure ;-)

A Syn of Times

We recently happened upon a music marketing company known as "The Syndicate." It's website is called www.thesyn.com. This may be seen as a provocative name--alluding to "sin", but this company actually refers to its employees as "Synners" in a job solicitation (so much for being inclusive to Christians). Yet no name could be more fitting for a modern music company, as modern music has been utterly co-opted by the forces of evil; and is rife with such "playful" satanism.

Even from a glance at the website, one notices a video with a menacing beat, featuring a person with a goat-head interspliced with brief, disturbing clips of fans doing weird, bad stuff.

But the bad behavior is really accidental to the evil wound into the music itself. Many have commented that Katy Perry's piece, ET, is so aggressively diabolical-sounding that they actually feel like their very soul is somehow damaged just from having listened to a portion of it--their breast feeling a horrible darkness within it, having come from the song. One man reported that his heart hurt for several minutes after hearing it. Lady Gaga is another perpetrator who goes to extremes in promoting a form of demented sensationalism in many of her pieces.

The strangest part about it all is that many of these pieces are composed by apparently normal human beings; it seems they should have been composed by a cult of satanists, or a coven of witches for how evil they sound. It is so difficult to believe that a mere human would want to propagate something so disturbing, even if it netted him or her lots of money.

For what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul? It seems like the modern music industry is composed solely of those whom have sold their souls.

Malaysia in Gag-a Malaise

Sean Yoong AP- "Broadcasters in this Muslim-majority nation have refused to play lines in the hit song that encourage public acceptance of gays, claiming Thursday they are being cautious because the government forbids offensive content. The precaution was due to government restrictions against songs that might violate "good taste or decency or (are) offensive to public feeling."

Malaysia has also put rules in place for performers, and has even banned Avril Lavigne from performing.

We say that regardless of lyrics, the music ought to be banned for its bad sound.

The Coming Dark Age (Can You Hear it?)

Article Review
In "Is A New Dark Age At Hand?" Lawrence Murphy likens causes of the medieval "dark age" to current social trends and concludes that America is headed for one. In the article he is a little overly dramatic and morose, but he's got a point: we only have so much time in our lives, and so much of the meaningful part is pushed aside as advertisers, who care little for our overall well-being, grab up our free time.

My Addition
But, I think that America would be headed for a dark age regardless of the effect of the Internet, cell phones, and other tools of trite indulgence.

Rock music simply isn't the music of civilization, but it's the music exemplar of America. In public life, rock muzak is played on background speakers at restaurants, college eateries, weight-rooms, fitness clubs, gymnasiums, discount stores, sporting events, fairs, supermarkets, cafeterias, mall stores, delis, and just about anywhere some half-wit can fit a speaker. The important distinction about these places is that nobody goes to them for music, but everybody gets it anyway.

Rock music is also interlaced in TV shows and movies scenes, and is found in an increasing number of TV and radio commercials. Loud ipod speakers further contribute to noise pollution in a public place.

At least in my experience, it is impossible to avoid rock music unless one is a monk in a monastery or a nun in a cloister.

When someone must listen to rock in order to partake in everyday life, it becomes the defining haze of life, and haze can go a long way in terms of influencing people; not right away, but very slowly over time.

The real problem is that constant exposure to rebellious, grotesque rock music stealthily eventually makes one lose the desire to protect and fight for his way of life, because he realizes he has nothing worth fighting for. In such a case, a lack of caring will destroy civilization and will be the catalyst to a dark age. After all, under the haze of rock music, caring itself cannot be justified. It doesn't fit with the music's let-loose message.

Maybe radical Islam will fill the void in the West left by modern rock. But youth in places like Iran are increasingly liberal, increasingly contemptuous of sharia law, and may end up the same as youth in the West if they become a market for MTV. There is already an Arabic rap genre. The West doesn't seem to be the only realm that has its days numbered.

So although writer of the article above may be right about the hazards of misusing (or abusing) technology, the spiritual death of mankind will be set to music.

Lyric case study

Epitomes of lyric content across the ages: Love Songs

DOULZ VIAIRE GRACIEUX Rondeau
Guillaume de Machaut (d. 1377)
Alla francesca
(Translation)

Sweet gracious face,
I have served you with a true lover’s heart
Please have pity on me.
Sweet gracious face,
If modesty holds me back a bit
Forget me not,
Sweet gracious face,
I have served you with a true lover’s heart

Lady Gaga "Bad Romance" 2009

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Caught in a bad romance
Ra ra-ah-ah-ah
Roma roma-ma
GaGa
Oh la-la
Want your bad romance
I want your horror
I want your design
‘Cuz you’re a criminal
As long as you’re mine
I want your love
Love love love
I want your love

Have the Europids made "progress" in 635 years? If so, towards what do they progress?

Visible Mic, figurative pacifier

Have you noticed lately that rap/pop music is becoming increasingly child-like? For instance, the unfortunately popular "Do yo' chain hang low" is set to the same tune as "Do your ears hang low"--a child's nursery rhyme.

Not only are the lyrics and tone juvenile, but the messages aren't very cerebral. "I'm horny, I'm angry, I'm the best, I'm rich, I'm miserable, I'm entitled, I'm accomplished." These are sentiments even animals express. A male koloa howls at the top of a tree after he successfully mates with a female. This act, it could be argued, encompasses all the aforementioned sentiments in rap music.

The Next Biggest Thing to Hit the Rap Scene?
But rap artists aren't just child-like: they embrace all the depravities and hostilities of which only an adult mind could conceive. But why are they this way?

Let me offer a little conjecture. Many rap star men come from underprivileged, inner-city homes with no resident father. Eminem, for instance, grew up with no father and a drug-addict mother. With adult male role models absent, youth often turn to older youth, often to teenagers. In a sense, the blind are now leading the blind. As scientific research points out, the part of the brain that judges risk taking is not yet fully developed in a teen. Although many teens are done growing, they may still be immature mentally, and thus have less scruples and be somewhat mentally neanderthalic.

Nonetheless such openness to risk does not absolve a teen from blame because the teen is still very conscious. Moreover, such risk-taking can actually be a good thing in a teen. However, it would help if teen-would-be rap stars had decent father figures to tell them which risks to take. It would also help if teens had responsible working men to emulate in addition to their carefree, impulsive peers. Finally, sometimes the commanding presence of a man can calm the stirrings of a teenagers better than the sometimes hysterical reactions of a mother.

How do these rap stars grow up? By embracing all the perversions learned from their daring peers, not by learning integrity or a code of honor from their fathers. Hence rap music.