One of your points about the denominations applies to almost every church fellowship. I began attending a Pentecostal church immediately after the first lockdown and I was blessed by the ministry and the fellowship which didn't take seriously the masking and the restrictions on singing. But they went along with the jabs and spoke out, and I was made to feel unwelcome. I felt I had a moral obligation to do so (see, eg Proverbs 24: 12). Then the Russians began their Special Military Operation in Feb 2022 and that triggered the pastor, which was curious since he had told me that he still believed invading Iraq in 2003 was justified because Saddam Hussein was a bad person. The reason for this reaction was they believed what the telly said, a conclusion justified by much of what was uttered during the prayer meetings. Prayers for the Covid deaths in India at a point when BBC et al were pushing the story. This was sad because an active church which taught the fundamentals of the faith and had a large prayer meeting attendance had been hijacked by the mass media. I went along to a smaller Presbyterian church but the man in the pulpit gave a long extemperaneous prayer thanking God for Zelensky's victories at place X in Ukraine, and a Russian defeat at location Y. In other words, he was repeating in prayer the contents of NATO press releases. This church had gone along with all the Covid stuff and learned nothing. Even more sad because this was the church which was instrumental in my conversion as a teenager more than forty years ago. Ironically, this church has a foundation stone which announces the fact that it was opened in 1914, at the start of the war which did much to send the church - the whole of the church community - in Wales into what had been along decline of over a century. From "the most religious country in the world" to the most antagonistic towards Jesus. Those Christians who feared TV and cinema back in the sixties (including my own Nana) have been proved right about satan in the living room.
The really sad thing about your story is - it just doesn't surprise me. This is why I feel unable to join any denominations at the moment. People just seem unwiling to countenance the thought that what they are seeing or hearing on the media just isn't accurate. "Satan in the living room" - well it does seem to have been the case. In the Peter Hitchens book I mentioned, he talks about the television and how T.S. Eliot had a letter published in the 1950s warning against the danger of it.
People just seem to have a childlike faith in whatever they see or hear, no matter how absurd it is. There is little thought going on. Even in churches which you would think are 'good' churches.
Although I was watch hardly any TV these days I have to admit that "the telly" was, on the whole, a positive experience for me back in my younger years. I learned an awful lot of geography, politics and history, not just through documentaries and the news but through action shows like "The Champions" and "Danger Man. " Looking back at some of these old shows the question of mind control often arises, notably in shows like "The Prisoner" and "The Avengers" (Steed and Mrs Peel, not Thor and Ironman). I think that through TV, especially the soaps, the whole of our sexual morality has been transformed for example. As Hugh Hefner said in the 1950s, likely funded by the CIA, "we are in a period of moral transformation and we are not going back." This makes me wonder if it has transformed us in ways we haven't yet figured out - it played a huge part in the Covid op, and what is the end point of all this if we have been transformed as a society? Is it the great deception of 2 Thessalonians 2? One of the few dissenters about the jab in the Pentecostal church was a lady who had her life (and that of her husband) transformed by Jesus from a life of utter degradation. She and her husband are not - I can't think of a way to say it nicely- the brightest bulbs in the box but she was absolutely clear about the jab from early on. "I think it's the Mark of the Beast," she said many times, and given the effects on human DNA, maybe she is right. She can't read but had more discernment than others who were well educated. Suggesting to me that we ought to thank God for His grace in stopping us from falling victim to the hoax while the Bride of Christ as a whole is still in chains to Big Lies.
One of your points about the denominations applies to almost every church fellowship. I began attending a Pentecostal church immediately after the first lockdown and I was blessed by the ministry and the fellowship which didn't take seriously the masking and the restrictions on singing. But they went along with the jabs and spoke out, and I was made to feel unwelcome. I felt I had a moral obligation to do so (see, eg Proverbs 24: 12). Then the Russians began their Special Military Operation in Feb 2022 and that triggered the pastor, which was curious since he had told me that he still believed invading Iraq in 2003 was justified because Saddam Hussein was a bad person. The reason for this reaction was they believed what the telly said, a conclusion justified by much of what was uttered during the prayer meetings. Prayers for the Covid deaths in India at a point when BBC et al were pushing the story. This was sad because an active church which taught the fundamentals of the faith and had a large prayer meeting attendance had been hijacked by the mass media. I went along to a smaller Presbyterian church but the man in the pulpit gave a long extemperaneous prayer thanking God for Zelensky's victories at place X in Ukraine, and a Russian defeat at location Y. In other words, he was repeating in prayer the contents of NATO press releases. This church had gone along with all the Covid stuff and learned nothing. Even more sad because this was the church which was instrumental in my conversion as a teenager more than forty years ago. Ironically, this church has a foundation stone which announces the fact that it was opened in 1914, at the start of the war which did much to send the church - the whole of the church community - in Wales into what had been along decline of over a century. From "the most religious country in the world" to the most antagonistic towards Jesus. Those Christians who feared TV and cinema back in the sixties (including my own Nana) have been proved right about satan in the living room.
The really sad thing about your story is - it just doesn't surprise me. This is why I feel unable to join any denominations at the moment. People just seem unwiling to countenance the thought that what they are seeing or hearing on the media just isn't accurate. "Satan in the living room" - well it does seem to have been the case. In the Peter Hitchens book I mentioned, he talks about the television and how T.S. Eliot had a letter published in the 1950s warning against the danger of it.
People just seem to have a childlike faith in whatever they see or hear, no matter how absurd it is. There is little thought going on. Even in churches which you would think are 'good' churches.
Although I was watch hardly any TV these days I have to admit that "the telly" was, on the whole, a positive experience for me back in my younger years. I learned an awful lot of geography, politics and history, not just through documentaries and the news but through action shows like "The Champions" and "Danger Man. " Looking back at some of these old shows the question of mind control often arises, notably in shows like "The Prisoner" and "The Avengers" (Steed and Mrs Peel, not Thor and Ironman). I think that through TV, especially the soaps, the whole of our sexual morality has been transformed for example. As Hugh Hefner said in the 1950s, likely funded by the CIA, "we are in a period of moral transformation and we are not going back." This makes me wonder if it has transformed us in ways we haven't yet figured out - it played a huge part in the Covid op, and what is the end point of all this if we have been transformed as a society? Is it the great deception of 2 Thessalonians 2? One of the few dissenters about the jab in the Pentecostal church was a lady who had her life (and that of her husband) transformed by Jesus from a life of utter degradation. She and her husband are not - I can't think of a way to say it nicely- the brightest bulbs in the box but she was absolutely clear about the jab from early on. "I think it's the Mark of the Beast," she said many times, and given the effects on human DNA, maybe she is right. She can't read but had more discernment than others who were well educated. Suggesting to me that we ought to thank God for His grace in stopping us from falling victim to the hoax while the Bride of Christ as a whole is still in chains to Big Lies.
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