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An Early Christian on Entertainment
By Ken Horn | June 19, 2008
What would the early Christians think of the kinds of entertainment professing believers watch today? TV, movies, video games, etc.
Listen to Tertullian (A.D. 140-230) talking about the content of the theater of the day.
“The father who carefully protects and guards his virgin daughter’s ears from every polluting word takes her to the theater himself, exposing her to all its vile language and attitudes. … How can it be right to look at the things that are wrong to do? How can those things which defile a man when they go out of his mouth not defile him when going in through his eyes and ears?”
Now doesn’t this apply to a lot of the things Christians watch today?
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June 20th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
As a father myself, I am of course very protective of my daughter,and yet, I also desire to educate her about “the world.” When my daughter and I encounter certain vulgarities I try to use the occasion to help her to understand it from a christian perspective. I prefer to raise my child not to be ignorant about our enemy,or to be taken in by something that I sheltered her from in an effort to protect her.