That they love rape & violence?
Dumb Sheep like people (worshipers of modern culture) have an inherent need and lust for being ruled by a king like figure even if they are corrupt as hell.
This is the paradox of freedom, once several generation have it their descendants grow corrupt and want to be ruled by others.
The wife and I enjoy the series. It’s a good show outside of the wanton displays of sex and violence.
That being said, the one point I like to make is that sex and violence is part of humanity throughout history. There’s nothing being shown in the show that was out of the ordinary from history.
Christianity brought about the morality that we all saw as enlightening, but as it’s slowly going out of style again, we’re degrading into the violent, sexually unfaithful society we once were.
/dons flame suit
All the little kids are watching.
Today’s dating mothers think that’s okay.
Game of Thrones is the world before Christ. There are many reasons to watch.
degenerate entertainment leads to callousness..and lower community standards ....rinse and repeat
People are continually getting this backwards.
It should be Can America bless God today?
If we bless God, then He will bless us. Not before.
As I believe Billy Graham said, “If God doesn’t pass judgement on America, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.”
SNL Explains the Nudity in Game of Thrones
http://gawker.com/5902076/snl-explains-the-nudity-in-game-of-thrones
I make it a habit not to watch any tv series. I do not have the bandwidth to keep up every week and I am surmising they suck anyway by the people I hear/see talking about them. Just like Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Son’s of Anarchy, et. al.
Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere is having a good time. - H.L. Mencken
I do not want to see cruelty and bloodshed on television or anywhere else. I do not want to see children destroyed psychologically. I do not want to see rape. I am ready for the rapture: God, I have had enough. Bring it on!
G.O.T. Ping!
Never watched it beyond the first season. Mindless sex and violence and pseudo-serious political drivel.
And George R R Martin is a huge lib...And the ‘R R’ tag tells me he’s a Tolkien wannabe.
Doesn’t really say much of anything. As with so much in life people go way out of their way to not actually know what in the hell they’re talking about. For one thing the “popularity” off the show is ratings of around 8 million viewer. Figure maybe you get half that again for viewing methods that don’t trigger ratings, and what you still have is around 4% of the population of the country. So functionally nobody, it’s a big country, small fractions make big numbers.
As for the “time and time again” there’s actually a lot LESS sexual violence in the show than the books ( http://io9.com/someone-has-done-a-statistical-analysis-of-rape-in-game-1707037159 ). It’s a brutal story in a brutal world. In an equivalent time (Roman Empire) in our world rape was pretty common place too.
As for your claim of “wildly popular in the pagan masses” not really. Certainly not any more so than most other demographics. There’s a lot of highly liberated women in the pagan masses that complain a lot about the rapes. So apparently everything you need to know is absolutely nothing.
It concerns me that Christian moralists confound sex with adultery. One is good the other evil and they are not the same. Nudity is not evil, beauty is not evil, what is evil is sex outside the bounds of marriage and coveting that which belongs to another. Sex and nudity are beautiful as a Bach symphony, it is dualism and that would say other. There are appropriate settings for each and inappropriate as well, but that does not permit a wholesale denigration.
In like manner these moralists decry violence, but what is the human fallen condition but violent. They fail to differentiate violence from sociopathic brutality. Recall that Christ comes back in violence. War is necessary for peace in a fallen world, but war is violent.
To witness the violence or the sexuality of fallen man is not evil, anymore than watching a documentary oh Hitler is evil. Just because the subject matter is evil does not make the watching evil. But as a steady diet of pop culture might deter one from a more beautiful and godly expression, so one should take care to make wise choices to preserve your appetite for what is good, beautiful an right.
Can God bless America today?
Answer: Leviticus 21:22-24
‘”You are therefore to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live (dwell in it) will not spew you out. Moreover, you shall not follow the customs (walk in the statutes) of the nation which I shall drive out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I have abhorred them. Hence I have said to you, “You are to possess their land, and I Myself will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples.’
So, is America now a land of pagans and is the land going to spew us out?
Of course there’s no sex or violence in the Bible.
Ditto except I also know it is produced by the entertainment media which, along with the news media, is actively trying to destroy our culture and country. That's all I need to know.