I love this quote from Cousin Ribby about our "cleaned up Christian Culture" and I had to share it:
"The old Ark, the biblical Ark, constructed to save the chosen from the Great Flood, had two of every creature in existence. The new Ark, the cultural Ark, built to save the chosen from the Great Media Flood, also has two of everything, I'm learning. You say you're a Pearl Jam fan? Check out Third Day. They sound just like them--same soaring gutteral vocals, same driven musicianship, same crappy clothes, just a slightly different message: Repent! you say you like Grisham-and Clancy-style potboilers? Grab a copy of Ted Dekker's "Heaven's Wager"--same stick-figure characterizations, same preschool prose, just a slightly different moral: Repent! your kids enjoy Batman, you say? Try Bibleman. Same mask, same cape, just a slightly different...That's the convincing logic of the Ark: If a person is going to waste his life cranking the stereo, clicking the remote, reading paperback pulp and chasing diet fads, he may as well save his soul while he's at it...What makes the stuff...so thin, so weak and cumulatively so demoralizing...has nothing to do with faith. The problem is lack of faith. Ark culture is a bad Xerox of the mainstream, not a truly distinctive or separate achievment. Without the courage to lead, it numbly follows, picking up the major media's scraps and gluing them back together with a cross on top." --taken from "The Marketing of Evil," by David Kupelian, pgs. 229-230
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This is what irritates me about "Mormon movies". Why are we trying to follow instead of lead?
It is because of this quote that I checked this book out from the library. I just picked it up yesterday and am several chapter into it. It is very informative, some parts may be too much information for some readers but he does give warnings for those parts. I would recommend it to anyone who might need more convincing that The Headgate is inspired and should be implimented into our lives.
I found "The Marketing of Evil" extremely informative. It's amazing what is going on right in front of us! I just finished "How Evil Works" (a follow-up book he wrote recently), and I was amazed at how he simply explains things I have a hard time putting into words.
I like reading about these subjects from a Christian writer.
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