Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Christians in Media

So I suppose it's about time I actually did this right....

I definitely think it's important to look at a how Christians are viewed in the media, whether it be in a movie, or the news, or theatre, or any other part of pop culture we can think of. We see them constantly bad-mouthed and torn down, look at movies like Dogma.

However, there is another side to this that few people are willing to address. We seem to look past the fact that there are Christians whose professions are to work in these different places of the media. Is this a problem?

In order to get anywhere in this business people are often forced to do things that they don't want to. They can sometimes be asked to compromise themselves. My thoughts on this lie more towards movies, theatre, and television. There are several professing Christians in any of those genres who will swear, because the script calls for it. They are playing a character and this is not them, is usually the justification. Is this right? Or does it not matter at all?

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