Media Desensitization
It is becoming more and more difficult for Christians to maintain compassion in this world simply because we are bombarded with so many emotional stimuli. We no longer hear of “wars and rumors of wars”; we see the actual combat on live TV. Our newspapers are so filled with crime, violence, and corruption that we bypass the front page and turn to the comics or the sports page-and sometimes the crime and violence are even worse there! We have desensitized ourselves. We are no longer our brother’s keeper.1
This ties in very well with the TV fasts Chris, Kelly, and Julie are all taking (and that I do without really calling it a fast). I’ve never thought of our media this way before, but I find this statement very true.
1 Wiersbe, W. W. (1988). Prayer : Basic training. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale.
Julie Riley is discussing.
Julie Riley
6:24 pm on February 21, 2009
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I love this quote… desensitization is so prevalent and so quick to sneak up on us… I see it in girls’ (and I emphasize ‘girls’) clothing becoming more defined by revealing fashion rather than God’s Word. Or, the increasingly popular view of marriage, where I-deserve-more attitudes have replaced the weight of an oath taken before God. Or, the selfish fixation on physical beauty vs. the true inner beauty that never fades… and on, and on…
It is too easy to buy into these sub-par standards when we are inundated with them. Thank you for the reminder, Ryan/Wiersbe, to battle these stimuli with what we know to be true and unchanging – God, Himself.