I doubt that CHrstendom will even agree about the particulars, other than it is important to always be mindful of what we think about. Philippians addresses this "think on these things". Some of this reflects each person's maturity. I will watch some TV shows like NCIS or Bones even though they may occasionally show scenes of torture or death. But this is inappropriate for my nephews and neices. Even I will swithc the channel if a death/murder scene is shown and I have long given up CSI because they tend to focus on the weirdest plots concerning more perverted deaths. I had to stop watching Law and Order, SVU because I cou;dn't stand to watch story after story concerning children and women.
I still cannot watch horror movies and refused to go see the Golden COmpass, although I don't think it was bad if people did. I stopped watching HOuse because, well, first, they were really not coming up with anythign original, and it was depressing to watch this character who has the most cynical and annoying outlook on life. I doubt I'd watch Twilight, can't get over the idea of a vampire being "noble" and having a realtionship with a woman that he really wants to bite. Seems rather akin to having a realtionship with a axmurdere who really wants to kill you
. Shoot, I won't go see "Marley and me" becuase like all books and movies about dogs...well, I should spoil the ending, but it's pretty much waht any book about dogs does at the end....and I just can't watch it, I'd bawl like a sissy. I cou;dn't even make it five minutes into "The Passion" without startin to cry, I made it to the scene in the garden where Christ heals the ear and I started reaching for my box of kleenex (yes, box). I went to see it, and I'm glad I did, but I know that there were a lot of added details and symbold that weren't true to scritpure.
Interestingly, many shows and movies will reveal what "should be", what "ought" to be even though they may be at first glance UnCHristian. Shows like NCIS or even some of the sci-fi shows, even Star-Trek or Stargate, reveal what we wish the world was like. The perfect team working together, no politics or a sense that nit-picking and fighting will bring down the goal, the fight for justice, that there is evil and wrong-doing and that we need to fight it.
How opposite this is compared to what we see: office politics, jealousy, back-stabbing. In many way I'd rather see any of the written TV shows or movies as compared to the reality TV, which tends to reveal and glorify and focus on the depravity of humanity instead of trying to show what we should strive for or reflecting what "ought" to be. Shows like "America's next top model" or "The real world" are examples of some of the ones that I would really avoid watching.
Part of this, I think, revolves around our ability to think critically about what we see and always be able to refelct on what the media says versus what the scritpure says. And any show that starts us thinking about things that we shouldn't or starting to influence what we view as acceptable, especially in light of what the scripture says, is something we should watch out for.
AS to supporting? Well, I suppose that is something we all must make a decision on indivisually. I know some poeple who refuse to support Disney and others who still go to see Disney films. I didn't like the idea of supporting the atheist who flagrantly made the Golden COmpass in order to promote atheism, but some wanted to see it to see what it was like in order to critique it (fair argument). Same with the DaVinci Code. I didn't want to support it, others went to make sure they could argue against it, again, fair argument.
I know this might not provide a hard answer, but those are the thoughts that came to mind ....
