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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 133
The types of television in the U.S. include: commercial sponsored TV (free TV),
subscription TV (paid for by the viewer) and TV that relies on viewer donations. Commercial
sponsored TV includes the network and local stations and a great number of cable station, which
are also available on satellite. Subscription TV is only available on cable or satellite. TV that
relies on donors mainly consists of religious broadcasting. Religious broadcasting appears on
local religious stations, some programs rent time on local, network or cable stations. Sometimes
cable TV will carry local religious stations. There is one Satellite that carries Christian and
family programming called Sky Angel.
In a truly Christian nation one would expect that Christian and wholesome family
programing would be commercially sponsored; good Christian programing would not have to
beg for donations. One would further expect that unwholesome programming and programming
that promotes sinful lifestyles would be unable to obtain commercial sponsors. One would expect
in a Christian nation that programming that in harmful for our children, for adults and for our
society would: 1) have to beg for donations; or 2) be available only by subscription; or 3) would
not be available at all. This is definitely not the case in the U.S.
In America you'll find nearly every type of sinful behavior portrayed and glorified on
commercial TV. Most often it includes: sex outside of marriage, the occult, lying, cheating,
drinking and violence. If you try to escape this by watching science or nature programming, you
are constantly bombarded with evolutionary theory and the old earth theory.
Violence
Violence is very common and very graphic on TV. On subscription TV such as HBO the
sex and violence is reported to be even more graphic. According to a study completed by the
National Coalition on Television Violence, in 1992 the most violent prime-time show was Young
Indiana Jones. Viewers of this show were subjected to 60 acts of violence per hour. This was up
from a similar study in 1980 that revealed 22 acts of violence per hour in the most violent prime-
time show. As a result of American viewing habits and violence on TV, the American
Psychological Association states the a typical American child will will witness 8,000 murders
and 100,000 acts of televised violence in his/her lifetime.
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On July 6, 1993, the Christian Science Monitor reported that there were over 3,000
studies conducted during the previous 30 years that offer evidence that violent programming has
a measurable effect on young minds.
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“The American Psychiatric Association has found that
there is a direct link between the violence on the screen and society. TV and film violence is
responsible for 50 percent of the violence in our society according to their research. Dr. Brandon
Centerwall of the American Psychiatric Association [who] estimates that there would be 10,000
fewer murders, 70,000 fewer rapes, 1 million fewer motor vehicle thefts, 2.5 million fewer
burglaries and 10 million fewer larcenies here [in the U.S.] each year if not for violent TV and
movies.”
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Based on the available evidence you would think that children programming would be
reformed. This isn't the case. Leilani Corpus, in a 1991 article for Media House International
writes: “Approximately 94 percent of these cartoons have violent themes and cartoon violence
has continued to increase. Fifty percent of the cartoons monitored by the National Coalition on
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