Like most Americans they're getting their moral guidance from the television they watch for hours every day, not the pastor/minister/priest they hear an hour or two a week.
And that weekly respite only applies to the most dedicated Christians who go to church every week.
Meanwhile the television is using every propaganda trick in the book to undermine faith, particularly in regard to traditional teaching on love and marriage.
Is it any wonder that Hollywood values begin to displace Christian morality? Worst of all, the Christian community isn't being coerced, they're being seduced. Most even allow their children to watch this garbage.
Actually, there's something even worse than that. Most Americans are paying to have their culture attacked. If you haven't done it already cancel your cable today.
I agree on what entertainment is doing, and don’t have cable myself. I watch non-fiction on TV when I do watch it, but occasionally will watch a show to see what is being given to the public. And what is happening to Christians is by seduction, and has made me wonder if our modern world might be the “strong delusion” mentioned in the Bible.
Christians have been taking on the world’s viewpoints, “logic,” and values, and so when the world’s propaganda comes along, they largely buy it too.
And so often they are not passing along Christianity to the younger generations, including their own children, because they forget that their Christian “eyes” were formed years ago, so they still see things partly from a Christian perspective and resist some of the antichristian messages today, but the younger generations know nothing else, and see their elders accepting what the world offers.
The Bible says, “Guard your heart.”
Churches and Christian groups often have grown into businesses and marketing, too, and try to look like the world and compete with it, rather than trying to make a Christian path in this world. The world has thrown some new possibilities at us, and we are giving in rather than being like David against Goliath.
It very well might be the case that young people can’t be prevented from following the world and wanting to “experience” it, and in a qualified way parents probably should let them do so in some ways, but the church then also should work on developing spiritual maturity rather adopting the world’s view of protacting adolescence throughout life as much as possible.