Advertising Horror to our kids

I dont know about you, but I am finding the growing level of horror on display in public to be disturbing to say the least. In the past we have found that certain DVD rental stores display all the modern horror films very prominently around their stores making it very hard to take our kids there to choose a movie. We have moved DVD stores since and there is a slight improvement. However today Naomi found SAW V advertising splashed across several display boards in KMART at midland directly in front of the toys area where all young kids would see the horrific images displayed on their way to the toys. Now these images even give me the creeps and I am 38, I cannot imagine how they would have affected me at my sons age of six. God tells us to dwell on wonderful pure and lovely thing for a reason. We are shaped by our environment as we grow up. There's no telling how a child exposed to these evil movies and images will grow up but I think these things will do a great disservice to children exposed, and probably the larger community as time passes. I think the moral desert that our society is becoming has at least partly come about because young children were exposed to things somewhat less than pure. The Bible tells us that Those that Hate God love death, and I see it everyday in our young people and exposing kids to this kind of horrific evil is paving the way for the kind of behaviour depicted in these evil movies. I hear the news readers on TV saying how terrible it is when seeing the tragic aftermath of some mindless violence on our streets and the very next advert shows some horrific movie involving killing death and debortuary and no-one seems to be able to link the media's constant barrage of this kind of absolute vomit to have anything to do with people's behaviour in general. Well it does!!!!! It's called influence, God tells us to be very careful about what we take into our minds because he know how easy we are influenced, this is surely more important now than ever before in this age of information. Some have said to me that information is the key to all problems ie the internut. This is sooo not true. In fact I think that the age of information has just spread the rot to younger and younger people faster and faster. Ultimate information corrupts ultimately.


So after that rant what do I do.....do we boy cot Kmart? Do we send hundreds of letters...?
The fact is that it is society that has become open to these kinds of things that allows them to be there in the first place. I guess if no-one complains or does anything I guess nothing will change.
The challenge for us is to do something. I pray that some of us (Bible believing Christians) will have the corrage to do something....


Slippery Out!!