Hollywood Babylon

The New American ^ | March 21, 2005 | William F. Jasper

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The recent Academy Award celebration of last year's movie fare has made transparently obvious the huge chasm between the cultural elitists and Middle America.

The year 2004 is certain to go down as a defining point in the decades-long war for the heart, mind, and soul of America. The cultural elites who reign over the fields of entertainment, the arts, the news media, and academia are triumphantly celebrating our descent into a post-Christian, neopagan society. They are celebrating an ongoing revolution that threatens to transform a culture of life, light, virtue, and hope into a culture of death, darkness, degeneracy, and despair.

This celebration of our moral decline was nowhere more blatantly displayed than at the 77th Academy Awards on February 27. Considered by many to be the premier annual cultural event, broadcast to a global audience of hundreds of millions, the Oscars have been sliding down a slippery slope for many years. But this year's nominees for the coveted golden statue comprised, in the words of USA Today, an especially "bleak slate."

In a February 25 cover story entitled, "Exploring Oscar's Dark Side," USA Today described the grim reality behind this year's glamour and glitz:

Open the winning envelope? For this year's Oscar hopefuls, it's more like opening a vein. Drug addiction, mercy killing, mental illness, genocide, abortion, ill young mothers and borderline alcoholism — these are a few of Oscar's favorite things this year. Here are a few more of Oscar's favorite things, as deduced from the Academy's nominees: homosexuality, pederasty, adultery, pornography, nudity, incest, blasphemy, profanity, and Communist revolutionaries.

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My purpose of my last post was that people shouldn't automatically look down upon someone bc he/she believes in the Lord. I am one of those people just as you are. It may be uncool here, but what does that really matter. Eternity in heaven is the payoff. Do not be ashamed to announce to your peers and those that are not, your belief in him. times are going to get more difficult to do this in an accepting atmosphere. Be true to the book of God bc this is the only guide you have. Find a church that uses the Bible as a guide and you'll be fine. The church is guided by the bible, not the other way around. Keep your head up to the world and head bowed to God.