Dick Van Dyke

We don't have much TV at our house. CBS, Fox and about three PBS stations and that is all there is on the sad antenna at my house. Of course considering CBS and Fox the only thing fit to watch is the snow pattern. So that brings us to Netflix and the Dick Van Dyke show. That is one funny show. My family enjoys watching the shows on a daily basis. We all laugh out loud and often at the plots. The team of Rob, Laura, Sally, Buddy, Mel and Alan Brady give a lot of funny material consistently. So here is the question: what has happened to America and why can't they write scrips like that anymore? Two reasons to start with (there are many more):

One - Hollywood is Horriblewood - they have filled themselves with so much ungodliness that the only scrips written these days are filth. Shows like "Two-And-A-Half Men" and the "Simpsons" are the systemic problems of what writers think is funny. Garbage in; garbage out; nuttin but garbage. The mind set of the entertainment business is swimming in the sewage of homosexuality, multiple sexual encounters with multiple couples, profanity, immorality and violence at levels of a hydrogen bomb. There used to be half-naked women running around all over TV but now there are 80% naked women running all over shows and commercials (that number may be low). Talk about a waste of good, hard earned money - subscribing to cable or sat programming is like throwing your money in a vat of pig manure and thinking you are going to get apple pie in return. Television has done more to destroy the minds of good people than any other invention of man. And yet we see the blue glow in every home in America and often that blue glow is multiplied by more than two televsions. In the Old Testament the people bowed down to Baal; today we bow down to our own altar - TV.

Two - the funny bone of America is governed by the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eye and the pride of life. What is funny to people these days is stupid. "For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are 'wise'--in doing evil! But how to do good they know not" (Jeremiah 4:22 - ESV). Imagine laughing at pig manure and yet that is the mindset of our society. Watching Andy Griffith or Dick Van Dyke is for squares but let me tell you how strong a square is: a lot more stable that the jello minds of the trash on TV today. Laughter does not require filthy language, filthy jokes, naked bodies and animal based desires to succeed. Yet our world thrives on it. We are the product of our own self-worth and television is the barometric gauge of where we are in the moral temperature of history.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you would not have in your home. (David Frost)