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Blood and guts films morally offensive

I cannot believe that after the massacre at Sandy Hook, this chainsaw massacre movie can be number one.    

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/01/06/chainsaw-3-d-carves-out-no-1-debut-with-23m-at-box-office/

Just from the article’s description, people of good moral intelligence should find fare like this disturbing at least and after Sandy Hook, downright disgusting.   It should have hardly a cult following and only among the unthinking and uncaring.  The fact that it is number one is a terrible indictment of our society.   God has warned us that those who fail to hate bloodshed will find it pursuing them (Ezekiel 35:6).  

In my view those who make these kinds of movies are on the same moral level as pimps, drug dealers, gambling house owners and others who make money at the expense of the vices of others.    Jesus himself warned that offenses (things that cause others to stumble) will come but that at the judgment it will not go well for those who bring them.

 “Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come! (Mt 18:7  NIV 2011)

 

   

 

By pastorkelvin

Pastor Kelvin S. Jones has been a pastor for forty years. He continues to pastor a small congregation during his semi-retirement years. His wife JoAnne is an integral partner with him in ministry.