Updated October 20, 2009 (first published December 24, 2003)
(David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O.
Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143,
fbns@wayoflife.org
I received the following question by e-mail a couple of days
ago: "What stand do you take on going to the movie theater?
My husband and I are born again believers and do not feel
that we should go to the movies, but we now have teenage
children and they are asking why they cannot go. I don't
want to tell them because we said no, but would like to give
them some biblical answer to help them understand. Do you
have any information that might help me. Thank you for your
time."
REPLY FROM BROTHER CLOUD
Before I answer your question about why God's people should
not go to the movies, let me make a couple of general
comments to your statements.
First, I commend you for wanting to give your teenagers a
reason for their faith. This is very important. As they grow
older, they don't need a mere list of dos and don'ts; they
need to learn to think biblically for themselves, to apply
the Scriptures to their daily lives. They need to learn that
the Bible is very practical and that it speaks to absolutely
every situation in life. I grew up in church but I didn't
know this. I thought the Bible was just a bunch of old
stories that had almost nothing to do with today. I had no
idea that it was a Living Book! Of course, I was not saved
then; I didn't get saved until I was 23 and had scarred my
life deeply with sin. I can't blame my foolishness and
rebellion on anyone else, but oh, that the church of my
childhood had made the Bible more practical!
Second, it is not enough to avoid going to movie theaters.
The great moral danger today is not only the movie theater
but the videocassette, the DVD, the video game, and the
Internet. It is what we watch in our own homes or in the
homes of our friends and neighbors.
Third, we must resist the teenager concept, understanding
that it doesn’t come from the Bible but from rock & roll in
the 1950s. There was a baby boom I n America following World
War II. Whereas at the end of the war, there were about 5.6
million teens in U.S. high schools, by the time Elvis
blasted on the scene in 1956 the number had almost tripled
to 13 million (David Halberstam, The Fifties, p. 473). There
was a corresponding increase in personal wealth and leisure.
Between 1950 and 1960, per capita income increased from
$1,500 to $2,788. Teens suddenly had free time and money,
and a new music came along, preaching, Do you own thing;
have your own life; you aren’t an old foggy; you can be a
cool dude, a rolling stone; throw off the shackles; you
aren’t under anyone’s thumb. The newly invented ultra
portable 45rpm record and the transistor radio enabled them
to have this new and exciting music wherever they went.
Radios were well entrenched in automobiles by 1956, so that
the new teen class could tool around in their automobiles
and be cool and listen to rock & roll. Alan Freed, Dewey
Daddy-O Phillips, and many other rock disc jockey s used the
radio to help create a new teenage culture with its own
music, language, and moral code. In this new subculture of
rock and roll the important figures of authority were no
longer mayors or parents; they were disc jockeys, who
reaffirmed the right to youthful independence and guided
teenagers to their new rock heroes. THE YOUNG FORMED THEIR
OWN COMMUNITY. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AMERICAN LIFE THEY WERE
BECOMING A SEPARATE, DEFINED PART OF THE CULTURE ( The
Fifties, p. 474).
Television also helped create the teenager. By 1956 there
were 37 million TV sets in America. This powerful new medium
had a great influence in the spread of rock and roll. Elvis
Presleys appearance o n the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956
attracted 54 million viewers, which was a whopping 83% of
the television audience. Dick Clarks American Bandstand was
inaug urated in 1957 and was watched by millions of teens.
Every day nationwide, teenagers rushed home from school to
watch their favorite singers, and learn new rock & roll
dance steps. ... As viewers watched them day after day, they
got to know the dancers names; THEY COPIED THEIR CLOTHING
AND HAIR STYLES; THEY MIMICKED THEIR COOL BEHAVIOR...
(Richard Aquila, That Old Time Rock & Roll, p. 10). The
Beatles appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in December 1963
was seen by more than 73 million people. Not only did
Sullivan promote Elvis Presley and the Beatles, but also
Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones, Gerry and the Pacemakers,
the Searchers, Dave Clark Five, and many others. (For more
about the history and influence and dangers of rock & roll
see our 473-page book Rock Music vs. the God of the Bible,
available from Way of Life Literature.)
The cool teenager was invented in the 1950s as a clever
marketing tool. It is a concept that appeals to the innate
rebellion and pride of youth and was a grand device of the
devil.
Christian families and churches that cater to the worlds
concept of the teenager are foolish and are not following
the Bible. They are bowing to popular culture, and that is
idolatry. God will not accept it. His Word is very clear in
this matter, that we are not to be conformed to this world
(Rom. 12:2) and tha t whosoever therefore will be a friend
of the world is the enemy of God (James 4:4).
Fourth, God has obligated parents, not young people, to set
the standards for the home. All too often Christian parents
allow their standards to be lowered by their teenagers, so
that it is the children who are setting the moral standards!
That is backwards and it results in confusion and apostasy.
The Bible says nothing about teenagers. In the eyes of God,
teenagers are still children, still under parental
authority. God praised Abraham because he would command his
children. For I know him, that he will command his children
and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of
the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may
bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him (Gen.
18:19). God hasnt changed since Abrahams day, eve n if
society has. Gods Word says, Children, obey your parents in
all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord (Col.
3:20). God doesnt make an exception for teenagers. Until
that young person l eaves father and mother, goes off on his
own, pays his own bills, makes his own way in life, and is
responsible for his own decisions, he is under his parents
authority.
We have witnessed the confusion and backsliding that results
when parents turn the helm of the home over to their
teenagers. Some close friends have done this with disastrous
consequences. I think of one family that had high scriptural
standards for their home until the children reached their
teenage years, then it was as if someone flipped a switch
and suddenly the teens were in charge. They set the
standards for dress and entertainment and dating and music.
Instead of the mom showing the girls how to be godly
Christian women, the girls taught the mom how to be a teen.
Instead of the mom instructing her daughters to dress
modestly, the attractive teenage daughters taught the mom to
dress like the world. Instead of the mom teaching the girls
to appreciate wholesome music, the girls taught the mom to
listen to rock. Instead of the dad teaching the sons to be
busy serving the Lord, to be Christian men, the sons taught
the dad to be a teen, to lavish his fleeting hours upon fun
and games, with activities that have no eternal value but
that are cool. As a result some of the children became moral
shipwrecks and the parents eventually lived in two different
countries. One of the girls had two children out of wedlock.
One of the sons stiffened his neck against God and went
completely into the world. The oldest daughters wedding to a
charismatic was a moral disgrace. The bride was indecently
dressed to the extreme and the crowd danced to hard rock &
roll.
Many Christian parents are afraid to hold the scriptural
line for their children as they get older, because they are
afraid of losing them; but if they don’t hold the line they
have lost them already.
Fifth, to maintain strong moral standards for your children,
you must be have control of their lives. If they are in a
secular school or a worldly Christian school, it is very
possible that you will lose the battle. The same is true for
the church you attend. I would challenge you to make sure
that you are in a morally strong church that will back you
up with godly standards. The matter is so crucial it is well
worth moving to another state if necessary. If you are in
the typical church today (including many independent Baptist
or fundamentalist ones) your kids are surrounded by young
people who are deeply compromised with the world, whose
chief goal in life is to have fun, who think a shallow
devotional and a quick prayer sanctifies every sort of
carnal behaviour and redeems the complete waste of countless
precious hours in this fleeting life. They are just as
sports crazy as the world, just as fashion conscious, just
as ignorant of sacrificial Christian living and service. In
fact, if you are in the typical larger church, you might
very well have a youth pastor that encourages worldly living
(covered with a thin veneer of superficial Christianity, of
course, to salve the conscience). The average church's youth
department replaces secular things with Christian
alternatives that imitate and are only a half step behind
the world; secular sports are replaced with Christian
sports, secular rock with Christian rock, secular dating
with Christian dating, R-rated movies with PG-13 movies,
secular tattoos with Christian. If you are in such a church,
even if it is not quite as extreme as that which I have
described, it will be almost impossible for you to maintain
strong standards of separation from the world for your
teenagers, because your efforts will be undermined by the
church and by their church friends.
Sixth, when you give up something like television and
movies, you need to replace it with something godly and
wholesome. A vacuum is quickly filled. We are not only to
cast off the works of darkness but also to put on the armor
of light (Rom. 13:12). Instead of sitting around the
television in the evenings, read some good books out loud.
Everyone enjoys hearing a book read out loud, even
teenagers. Start with something like Pilgrim's Progress or
an exciting missionary biography. Or gather the family
around to listen to good preaching sermons. Some are
available on the internet both for download and for sale.
The following site is one example:
http://www.sermonstore.org/. (Beginning in about April 2004,
Way of Life Literature plans to publish a series called Life
Changing Sermons.) You will be amazed at how quickly the
family can learn to enjoy life without the television and in
a much more spiritually and morally healthy manner.
Seventh, and above all, do everything possible to be close
to your children, to let them know that you love them
dearly, to win their hearts with your affection, to know
what they are thinking and to have an open channel of
communication with them. If there is any breach between you
or your husband and the children, spare no effort, spare no
money, spare no repentance of sin, spare no tears, spare no
amount of prayer, spare no amount of time, spare no amount
of fasting, to heal that breach. Nothing is more important
than winning your children to Christ and seeing them serve
Him wholeheartedly and unreservedly. If your church is
somewhat worldly and it is the best one in your area and you
are not in a position to relocate, and if your Christian
school is far from ideal but you are not in a position to
home school, you can still succeed spiritually with the
children if you have a close and fruitful walk with Christ
in your own life and if you are close to the children and
hold the key to their hearts.
Our four children are grown and are serving the Lord today
and two are missionaries, so I am in a position to speak
from experience, not only from what we did right but also
what we did wrong! One of our sons struggled with the Lord's
will for a while, and I have no doubt that my failures as a
father had negative consequences in his life. I praise the
Lord for His great mercy and grace. Without that, no parent
would ever be successful.
We did not have a television in our home for the first 14 or
15 years of our marriage. Then we decided to get one just to
watch a few "good shows" and some carefully selected movies
on video, mostly the old black and white ones. I believe my
wife and I controlled the television as carefully as anyone
ever has. The children were not allowed to watch shows by
themselves. We hand picked every program and every video. If
we wanted to watch a television program, we pre-recorded it
and fast forwarded through the commercials. For the most
part we did not allow any movie with a rating higher than G,
and that really limits one's viewing! Even so, we found
ourselves gradually lowering our standards, letting a couple
of PG movies slip in because those particular ones "weren't
much worse than G." Also, the kids would be home alone at
times and there were occasions when we found that they had
watched things that they should not have. Television is a
slippery slope at best, and it gets worse every year.
Several years ago we disconnected the television from the
antenna, though we continued to watch a few old movies such
as "The Shop Around the Corner" and "Sergeant York" or old
TV programs such as Andy Griffith. And for the last few
years we have not had a television in our home even for
watching old movies. Candidly, the only regret that I have
about television in our home when the children were growing
up is that we allowed ourselves to have one at all.
Now to the matter of why we should not watch unwholesome
television programs and movies:
SCRIPTURE PASSAGES THAT
FORBID WATCHING THE VAST MAJORITY OF HOLLYWOOD MOVIES AND
TELEVISION PROGRAMS
The following Scripture passages teach me not to attend the
modern movie theater or watch most modern Hollywood movies
on video or DVD or the vast majority of television
programming (including, and perhaps especially, the
commercials!). While we cannot make a law that Christians
can never watch any television program or any movie, it is
also clear that Christian liberty is not the liberty to
disobey the Bible. If the child of God can watch some
program or movie without disobeying the Scriptures and with
a clear conscience before God, that is between him and the
Lord. But the following Scriptures have a direct application
to this issue and are a loud warning to those who have ears
to hear.
1. "I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the
work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me"
(Psalm 101:3).
This verse single-handedly forbids the child of God to watch
the vast majority of the movies and television programs that
are made today. Consider just a few of the wicked things
that you or your children will see:
• The breaking of all of God's commandments
• Open and flaunted immorality
• Casual drinking and drug usage
• Drunkenness portrayed as something funny and innocent
• Immodest and sexually alluring dress
• Sexually enticing dancing
• Violence and mayhem
• Casual dating (Parents, do you want your children to date
after the fashion portrayed in most movies and television
programs?)
• Mockery of the things of God
• Pagan religions depicted as truth
• Occultism, paganism, and New Age error (even in cartoons
and in a large number of Disney movies)
2. "I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I
think upon a maid?" (Job 31:1)
This verse is similar to the one in Psalm 101:3, but it
warns more specifically about looking upon women to lust
after them. The Lord Jesus Christ warned, "But I say unto
you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her
hath committed adultery with her already in his heart"
(Matt. 5:28). These verses are solemn warnings to men and
boys NOT to watch Hollywood movies, whether in the theater
or at home. In public, most men will not stare at a woman
very long because he doesn't want to be seen doing that, but
when he is watching a movie, he can stare as long as he
desires at an indecently clad female, even if his wife is
sitting by his side. Twenty years ago I asked a pastor
friend, "Why do you think so many pastors are falling to
sexual sins?" I have never forgotten his simple reply:
"Television."
3. "But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness,
let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which
are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye
know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous
man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom
of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain
words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God
upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore
partakers with them." (Ephesians 5:3-7).
This is a perfect description of 99% of the Hollywood
movies today, if not 100%. It also describes the sensual
rock music that goes hand in hand with practically all of
today's Hollywood movies. The child of God is not to
participate in such things, even by proxy.
4. "But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath,
malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth"
(Colossians 3:8).
Not only is it dangerous to watch evil things but it is
equally dangerous to hear evil things. There are occasions
in this wicked world in which we do not have complete
control over what we see and hear, but when we are in our
homes, we do have control. And we do have control over where
we go and what we do with our own time. Television programs
and movies are literally filled with ungodly speech, with
the things specifically and solemnly forbidden in
Colossians. The ear is a gate to the heart and determines
how we live. The Proverbs warns, "Keep thy heart with all
diligence; for out of it are the issues of life" (Prov.
4:23). The very first thing that is mentioned in that
connection is "Put away from thee a froward mouth, and
perverse lips put far from thee" (Prov. 4:24)!
Movies and television programs are filled with the things
forbidden in Colossians 3:8: "Foul language, including
curses, offensive epithets, scatological language, sexually
suggestive or indecent language, and censored language
increased by 94.8 percent during the Family Hour between
1998 and 2002 (Calvary Contender, Dec. 2003).
5. "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the
earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his
heart was only evil continually" (Genesis 6:5). "Because
that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful; but became vain in their
imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened" (Romans
1:21). "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that
exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing
into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" (2
Cor. 10:5).
The Bible warns the believer to cast down every evil
imagination, because the imagination is the battle ground
for the soul. Proverbs 23:7 says, "For as he thinketh in his
heart, so is he..." The imagination goes from bad to worse.
The flesh is never satisfied. Sin, which began in such a
small way in the days of Adam, had so permeated and
controlled man's thoughts by the days of Adam's great
grandson Noah that his thoughts were only evil continually.
That describes multitudes in our day, which is not
surprising in that the Lord warned, "But as the days of Noe
were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be" (Matt.
24:37). Romans tells us that the imagination plays a great
role in the downward spiral that results in homosexuality
and other moral perversions. It is impossible to have
spiritual victory if one allows the imagination to dwell
upon evil things. It is not difficult in this connection to
see the danger of television programs and movies. They fill
the imagination with vivid images that linger and that
return even if not purposefully entertained. They feed the
fleshly nature, but it is never satisfied and it only
desires more sensuality, more excitement, more, more, and is
thus led ever deeper into moral perversion. In looking back
on my childhood, I recognize that one reason why the Word of
God had little or no effect upon me, even though I was in a
Baptist church at least three times a week, was that my mind
was always filled with worldly entertainment. We got a
television when I was about eight years old, and though the
programs were nothing like they are today, they were foolish
at best and certainly did not encourage me spiritually. We
got our television about a year after Elvis appeared on the
Ed Sullivan Show. I remember that by the time I reached
junior high school, I did everything I could to stay home on
Sunday nights so that I could watch the most exciting
programs of the week, such as the Disney Hour and Ed
Sullivan and the Dina Shore program ("See the USA in your
Chevrolet"). I don't remember if I was home that night in
1964 when the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan, but I could
have been. I was in high school and about that time my
parents were having a lot of problems and had pretty much
given up on trying to keep me in church. I had already
started drinking and carousing around with my buddies every
weekend in our automobiles. There is no doubt that
television and movies fed my carnal imagination in a way
that nothing else could have done and, together with rock &
roll, inflamed me with a passion for the things of the
world.
6. "And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and
more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve
things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and
without offence till the day of Christ; Being filled with
the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto
the glory and praise of God" (Philippians 1:9-11).
This passage teaches the child of God to choose the most
excellent things in life, not those things that are
borderline and questionable. It teaches him to be without
offence before God. The believer should ask himself, "Would
I be embarrassed for the Lord Jesus to come and find me
doing this thing?" We are to be filled with the fruits of
righteousness, and that means we have to be emptied of the
fruits of the flesh and the world. The child of God has two
natures, the old and the new, and the one he feeds and
pampers is the one that will dominate his life.
7. "And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he
eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin"
(Romans 14:23).
This verse warns the child of God not to participate in
anything that is questionable. If you cannot say for sure
that something is God's perfect will, if it creates nagging
doubts, you should avoid it.
8. "Abstain from all appearance of evil" (1 Thess. 5:22).
Not only are we to abstain from evil itself but even from
the appearance of evil. Attending the movie theater today
has, at best, an appearance of evil, because the vast
majority of the movies shown there are morally vile. The
same is true for watching most Hollywood movies at home. If
our friends see that we watch movies, they will be
encouraged to watch them as well, and they probably will not
be as "discriminating."
9. "Let us therefore follow after the things which make for
peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. ... It is
good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing
whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made
weak" (Romans 14:19, 21).
Even if I could go to a movie theater and see a movie that
was 100% wholesome by biblical standards and not see any
movie trailers for wicked movies, I would still be giving a
bad example to others. If I go to watch a G-rated movie, I
might encourage others to go and watch an R-rated one and
thus commit sin against God.
10. "Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience
seared with a hot iron" (1 Timothy 4:2).
The conscience is a tender thing. It can easily be hardened
by unrepentant exposure to evil. This is why television
programs and movies have gotten ever more wicked with each
passing decade. If one of today's PG-13 movies had been
shown on television 40 years ago, it would have been
condemned broadly even by many unbelievers. The same is true
for rock music. Eminem or Marilyn Manson would not have been
allowed on the Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s, but there has
been a steady searing of the conscience by exposure to the
ever increasing moral vileness of the entertainment
industry. When Christians allow themselves to watch programs
and movies that they know are wrong, their conscience
becomes seared so that eventually they can watch things
without so much as a twinge of conscience that once would
have shocked them deeply.
11. "For I know him, that he will command his children and
his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the
LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring
upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him" (Genesis
18:19).
God commended Abraham because he would command his children
to keep the way of the Lord. Every parent needs to take this
to heart. Contrary to the tenets of modern psychology and
pop child training philosophy, parents are responsible to
command their children and to show them the right way in
life. Love is the key to making this work, of course. The
father is accountable before God to be the godly head of the
home and to oversee all things under Christ. The mother is
responsible to work alongside the father and as his
"helpmeet" in the home, and should never be guilty of
undermining any godly thing that the father wants to
accomplish. Each believing father and mother will stand
before Jesus Christ and give account for how he or she lived
in the home and how they raised the children. How wonderful
it will be to hear the Lord say, "Well done, good and
faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things,
I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the
joy of thy lord" (Matt. 25:23). Nothing this world has to
offer is worth losing the Lords commendation.
There is an axiom that what parents allow in moderation, the
children follow to excess. If parents are even a little
careless about watching Hollywood movies, the children will
most likely move much farther into areas of moral
temptation.
A WARNING ABOUT THE MOVIE RATINGS
A few years ago USA Today contained an article titled "PG-13
can lull folks with false security." It is a warning about
the filthiness of PG-13 movies by a secular newspaper! The
article contains the following important statement:
"PG-13 was designed, I believe, to apply the friendly PG
symbol to movies that have no business even being considered
for viewing by most young teenagers and preteens. The age of
assignment for the rating is deceptive, and it lulls parents
into a false sense of security" (Joe Zanger, editor of
PG-14, USA Today, Nov. 22, 1999, p. 2D).
This is an important warning, though it should be much
stronger. The article also notes that there is often no
difference between PG-13 and R-rated movies, and even when
there is a difference, it is only minor. Both types of
movies routinely contain nudity, immorality, gratuitous and
graphic violence, and foul language. From the standpoint of
a Christian who wants to obey the Lord's call to holiness,
there is no real difference. Immodesty is immodesty. Cursing
is cursing. Blasphemy is blasphemy. Extramarital sex is
extramarital sex. If one movie contains a little less of
these things than another movie, that does not make either
movie acceptable before God.
"I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the
work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me"
(Psalm 101:3).
The ratings have become more lenient with the passing of
time. Movies that would have been rated R a few years ago
are routinely rated PG-13 today. Further, the category of
NC-17 (meaning no one under 17 may be admitted) has been
added to replace the old filthy X rating. There is an agenda
to put increasingly more godless content into increasingly
more widely distributed movies.
Also noted in the USA Today article is the fact that many
directors and producers actually want their movies to be
rated PG-13 today, as opposed to an R rating or a PG rating.
This is because young people are admitted to the PG-13
movies as opposed to the R or restricted movies and they
consider them more desirable and grownup than PG-rated
(meaning parental guidance suggested) movies. PG-13 movies
are raking in huge receipts at the box office. Of the top 21
films that have grossed more than $200 million, the vast
majority (13) are PG-13, while only three are PG, two are G,
and three are R.
If secular people can see the danger of PG-13 movies, why
can't God's people! We must understand that the
Hollywood-New York entertainment business is not now and
never has been the friend of God and righteousness. From
their inception, motion pictures and television have pushed
the boundaries of morality in society farther from the
standard of God's Word. Yet more members of Bible-believing
churches watch unwholesome television and movies today than
ever, and there is less plain preaching on this matter today
than ever.
We must remember that the movie and television ratings
systems were not devised by godly people who are committed
to obeying the Bible, but by secular people who are
controlled by the philosophy of this world. In reality,
ungodly movies are not wholesome fare for children, young
people, OR for adults. PG13 things such as nudity and foul
language are not acceptable before God for adults any more
than for young people.
Like the frog in the gradually heated pot, God's people who
are careless about separating from Hollywood's filthy fare
become desensitized by it.
A missionary friend was eating a meal with a pastor and his
wife a few years ago when the topic of the movie Titanic
(rated PG-13) came up. When the missionary expressed his
opinion that the movie is ungodly, the pastor's wife said
that they had seen it and had enjoyed it. The missionary
asked what they thought of the nudity in the movie, and the
pastor's wife said it was "tastefully done." This
illustrates how worldly many fundamental Baptist churches
have become. If pastors and their wives are enjoying movies
featuring extramarital affairs, what are the other members
of the church watching! The Bible says the pastor is to be
the example to the flock (1 Peter 5:3). WOE UNTO THOSE
MULTITUDES OF WORLDLY PASTORS WHO FILL THE PULPITS ACROSS
THE LAND TODAY, WHO ARE COMFORTABLE WITH HOLLYWOOD'S
CESSPOOL AND WHO DO NOT TEACH THEIR PEOPLE THE FEAR OF GOD
AND SEPARATION FROM THE WORLD.
The following are typical quotations from reviews of PG-13
movies by professional secular critics:
A CHEF IN LOVE -- PG-13 "violence, rape, sex, nudity,
profanity -- it's pretty raunchy"
MEN IN BLACK -- PG-13 "violence, profanity, gore, vulgarity"
SPAWN -- PG-13 "violence and mayhem, vulgar gags and
references, profanities and brief partial nudity, as well as
some revealing outfits"
SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL -- PG-13 "considerable violence and
mayhem, profanity, vulgarity"
ACE VENTURA -- PG-13 "raunchy humor, an abundance of
profanity"
ANACONDA -- PG-13 "violence, gore, profanity, vulgarity,
sex, nudity"
AIRHEADS – PG-13 "considerable raunchiness; there is
violence, graphic sex, profanity and vulgarity"
ASPEN EXTREME -- PG-13 "considerable violence, nudity and
profanity, as well as cocaine abuse"
BIRD ON A WIRE -- PG-13 "considerable mayhem, as well as
sex, profanity and some nudity"
BLANKMAN – PG-13 "violence, profanity, vulgarity and some
nude photos"
BLAME IT ON THE BELLBOY -- PG-13 "sadistic, graphic
violence, as well as sex, profanity, vulgarity and some
partial nudity"
CLUELESS -- PG-13 "violence, vulgarity, profanity and drugs
... the film's cavalier suggestions that casual sex is
perfectly acceptable for 15-year-olds and that smoking
marijuana is fine as long as it's at a party are extremely
irresponsible."
COOL WORLD -- PG-13 "With its excessive violence, sex,
vulgarity and profanity, this isn't a film I'd recommend to
any children - even those over 13."
CAPTAIN RON -- PG-13 "violence, sex, nudity, profanity and
vulgarity"
THE CHASE -- PG-13 "considerable violence and profanity, sex
scene"
CIRCLE OF FRIENDS -- PG-13 "sex, profanity, vulgarity and
some nude photos"
CITY SLICKERS -- PG-13 "violence, sexual material, profanity
and a few vulgar remarks"
CLASS ACT -- PG-13 "many vulgar sexual gags, violence, sex,
profanity"
SAFE PASSAGE -- PG-13 "profanity, vulgarity, sex, violence
and drugs (marijuana smoking)"
SO I MARRIED AN AX MURDERER -- PG-13 "violence, sex, nudity,
profanity and vulgar sexual remarks"
SOME GIRLS -- PG-13 "sex, nudity, profanity, vulgarity,
violence and drugs"
SPLITTING HAIRS -- PG-13 "loaded with vulgar gags, nudity
and sex, profanity"
SON-IN-LAW -- PG-13 "profanity, vulgarity, nudity, violence,
general raunchiness, lesbian kiss between two girls,
mud-wrestling ... [the parents] are shocked by the change in
their daughter (dyed hair, miniskirts, see-through tops and
an ankle tattoo ... running theme of teen sex being
perfectly acceptable"
MADE IN AMERICA -- PG-13 "a sex scene with nudity, as well
as some profanity and vulgarity"
MOLL FLANDERS -- PG-13 "Much sexual material; there is also
violence, nudity, drug abuse, a couple of profanities and
some vulgarity"
PARENTHOOD -- PG-13 sex, "profanity, vulgarity, raunchy ...
Some of the material is so adult that an R rating doesn't
seem unreasonable"
ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS -- PG-13 "violence, vulgarity,
profanity, partial nudity"
RESCUE ME -- "is rated PG-13 but has an awful lot of R-rated
material, including violence, profanity, sex and nudity"