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FCC Report - TV Violence Should be Regulated
tanman writes "CNN reports that a draft FCC report circulating on Capitol Hill 'suggests Congress could craft a law that would let the agency regulate violent programming much like it regulates sexual content and profanity — by barring it from being aired during hours when children may be watching' The article goes on to quote from studies showing a link between violent imagery and violence in life, and discusses the 'huge grey areas' that could result from ill-defined concepts of excessive violence." Government as Nanny, or cracking down on an excessive entertainment culture? Which side of this do you find yourself on?
Except that the equipment doesn't belong to the military, it belongs to us.
And by extension, saying something negative about the military says something negative about us.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Wow, it must take alot of brainwashing to believe that stuff.
It was not curiosity that was the reason for the Fall. Knowledge of Good and Evil implies the capability to act on either of them. Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise because they had gained the capability to do Evil, which is something that does not belong in Paradise, which is a realm of absolute Good.
Someone can do evil acts without knowing that it is evil. An autistic individual with no idea of life or death can still kill a hundred people. Him not knowing that it is bad to kill people does not make the act any less evil. If it did, then the very idea of good and evil looses all meaning. A society that throws disobedient children off of a cliff could not be considered evil if they think it is an acceptable way to keep people in line.
If it is basic theology to warp what is in the Bible to cover up its glaring problems then I am glad that most Christians do not study much theology.
God forbade the fruits of the Tree of Knowledge because it would disturb the balance of Paradise by introducing the knowledge of Evil.
How could you or any other theologian possible believe that you know why God does anything. If he does exist then he has a sense of judgement and morality that is far different from ours. As far as any theologian could possibly decern is that God forbid eating from the tree because Adam and Eve would surely die (Genesis 2:17).
The reason for the prohibition was promptly validated by the fact that Adam and Eve started by lying about their act, denying that they had taken from the Tree and trying to place blame on others.
Adam and Eve were already capable of disobedience and wrong doings before they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, because they ate the apple. They never belonged in Paradise in the first place according to your account.
Apart from whether or not you believe this, only a deliberate misreading of the text and the exegesis done on it over the centuries could lead someone to state that mere curiosity led to the Fall. It didn't. Neither did mere disobience.
If I convince a child to do something that their parents told them not to, I deserve the blame. Expecially if the child has no idea what the difference between right and wrong, good and evil.
As for the resolution of this, this is why Christians believe Jesus' death leads to forgiveness for Original Sin: Jesus shows the ultimate Good, sacrificing yourself for others.
But again, that is only a human interpretation of Jesus' death. And it makes sence because it gives the creators of the Christian faith a good recruitment tool. There is no mention of "original sin" in the Bible. It is no less embarrasing than the idea of Pergatory.
The Bible was written in a time when people were not educated. It was probably not the intention of the original writers to say that knowledge is a bad thing, but that is exactly what the text implies.
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-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke