I was thinking about when I was young, in the sixties and seventies and the old television shows we watched. I know shows like “Father Knows Best” and “Leave It to Beaver” didn’t depict real life, but it was nice to think life could be like that. There was always some moral lesson to be learned from these. Work hard, be honest, and love your neighbors, these were all common themes.

Even the commercials were relatively wholesome. Sure, there were cigarette and beer commercials, but they were pretty tame. Although I wanted to be the Marlboro Man, I never started smoking. There was a code of decency that set standards for television.

But then Satan came along and figured out how he could spread sin through the use of media. He came, and we let him. Pick up the remote someday and scroll through the channels. Select some of the shows and see how far we have come—and I don’t mean in a good way.

What kind of moral teaching do we get from watching “Catfish”? How about the whole “90 Days” suite of shows? I won’t even get into the daytime talk shows. Even the commercials promote immorality. Birth control, male enhancement products, deodorants for all parts of your body, day-after pills, and we thought cigarette commercials were bad.

You can call me old-fashioned and I guess you would be right but at least Satan hasn’t taken full control of my soul. We have turned morality into a grey area where everything is relative. There is no right or wrong, everything depends on how we feel at the moment.

Soon Christianity will become obsolete, Satan will win and God will say “That’s enough” and Judgement Day will come. I hope you are ready, it may come sooner than you think.

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.  They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

The Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version; Second Catholic Edition. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2006), Ro 1:28–31.