Check this, precioussssss....

AND GOD SAW IT WAS NOT GOOD
Funtopia Rich sent over the following link ( http://www.capalert.com/ ) to "Ministry of the Child Care Action Project (CAP): Christian Analysis of American Culture Ministry", a complicated website – with graphs, flashing lights and constant appeals for donations – that grades all the movies that it can get its hands on, to help parents spot the ungodly evil that lurks in the output of Hollywood. And, man, is there some dire and ungodly evil on the silver screen.

Take, for instance, a snippet of CAP on ROTK.– which one might consider family fare..
"How can I call The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King a work of art? Because of the skill and talents that went into a beautifully choreographed and orchestrated symphony of visual and audio excellence in a story of contrapositioned good and evil. Then how can I find issue with it if it is so magnificent? Because, in nutshell, art does not equal sin and sin does not equal art. Art becomes sin when art uses sin. The inference drawn from the beauty of the manner used to contraposition good and evil may lead some viewers to believe more of evil than evil is due. Whether intentional, such presentation of sensory and spiritual food can be trickery.

The listed offences to God include – "unholy transformation by evil power; talking trees; unholy healing; evil control; unholy possession; threat by wizardry/sorcery; prophesying; evil beasts/demons; repeatedly enlisting tens of thousands of "walking dead" to do good by assisting the "good guys" in battle; frequent and repeated graphic views of many unholy creatures (Orcs) many times in close-up; use of evil (sorcery/witchcraft/wizardry) to do good by assisting the "good guys" in battle; grant of immortality. Plus moral problems like – sparse dress on male character; repeatedly excessive cleavage; open face kiss; smoking; drinking; drunkenness. "

Or CAP on the Star Wars saga...
"While violence was a saturating presence in each of the Star Wars movies, the violence presented was described by one of our subscribers as "clean violence." I may not agree entirely with that description, but the point is made. Subjectively speaking, the kind and scope of violence in the Star Wars movies was akin to that with which we as parents today grew up with: cowboy, military, and cops & robbers violence -- the kind that does not typically drive itself so deeply into the behavior choice warehouse of the adolescent who is aflame with prepubescent or pubescent fire as does the popular style of steely cold violence inflicted with orgasmic satisfaction. Except for that expressed by the emperor in The Return of the Jedi as he tried to kill Luke and in the face of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace, there was no lust for or joy in inflicting violence noted in the Star Wars movies. The more graphic invasive elements of ignominy included in the Star Wars movies should be relatively re-directable by caring and participative parents, but it is especially important that you share with children the possibly dangerous common invisible or translucent sub-theme of discarding the Sovereignty of God and His Word."

I really have no right to argue with those who subscribe to this nonsense. Hey, it’s a free planet (supposedly). But for once in my life I can only echo the cry of Helen Lovejoy. "Will someone please think of the children?" What kind of dangerous emotional cripples is this mindset raising? (I also wonder what CAP would make of Sting of Death – see last Sunday.)

The secret word is No