ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

So, at certain points of the week, Wednesday (Bible Study) and Saturday (Sunday worship coming up), there's a flood of scripture posts and inspirational messages about faith and blessings.

Then at other points in the week on those same FB walls, there are posts about "Real Housewives of Atlanta," and the posters are rooting for the drama, laughing at the infidelity, and cheering on the worst of the bad behavior.

I'm not picking on RHOA.  I don't watch the show.  I am making an observation about human beings.

We think we're more sophisticated than brutal ancient peoples or those uneducated masses over in third-world nations. We think that conspiracy theories about the decline of society and post-apocalyptic fiction where we kill each other is far-fetched because we would never let things go that far.

But the same trick the Romans used in their Colliseum is being used on your television:  Basically, all they have to do to circumvent your sophisticated sense of morality is to stop calling it sin and call it "entertainment."

Cause when it's "just a show" you applaud the lions and scream for blood just like the pagans down the street.

Maybe "The Hunger Games" isn't all that far-fetched.  Maybe we aren't as sophisticated as we think we are.

Or as Solomon said, "To do evil is like sport----to a fool." ( Proverbs 10:23)

---Anderson T. Graves II   is a writer, community organizer and consultant for education, ministry, and rural leadership development.

Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Hall Memorial CME Church in Montgomery, Alabama, executive director of the Substance Abuse Youth Networking Organization (SAYNO) and director of rural leadership development for the National Institute for Human Development (NIHD).

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