Is there a difference between TV and Theater? These wise men not all of the Christians note had interesting things to say about theater/TV Plato says: The diversions of the theater are dangerous to the temper and sobriety of mind. They rouse the feelings of passion and sensual desire too much. Tragedy is prone to render men unfeeling--and comedy makes them buffoons. Thus those passions are cherished which ought to be checked, virtue loses ground, and reason becomes uncertain. Aristotle says: The law ought to forbid young people the seeing of comedies until they are proof against debauchery. Solon, the wisest of the Greeks, and their lawgiver, forbade theatrical exhibitions as pernicious to the popular mind. Cicero says: The theater exists on lewdness! Seneca, the great heathen moralist, says: Nothing is so injurious to good morals as theaters, for then vice makes an insensible approach and steals upon us in the disguise of pleasure. Mr. Wilberforce, known and honored wherever freedom unfurls her banner, affirms, The debauchee, the sensualist, the profane, have ever found in the theater, their chosen resort for enjoyment. He asks: How can a virtuous mind seek pleasure in such a place, amid such companions, and from such persons as the actors and actresses are generally known to be? Pollok says: The theater was from the very first, the favorite haunt of sin; though honest men maintained that it might be turned to good account. And so, perhaps, it might--but never was. From first to last it was an evil place; and now such things are acted there as make the demons blush! In 1778 Congress passed a law providing for the dismissal of any officer of the United States who was found in attendance upon a theater. Soon after the declaration of independence, the following resolution was adopted by Congress: Whereas, true religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness: Resolved, That it be and is hereby earnestly recommended to the several States to take the most effective measures for the suppression of theatrical entertainments, horse-racing, gambling, and such other diversions as are productive of idleness, dissipation, and a general depravity of principles and manners. Augustine calls the theater, a cage of immorality and a public school of debauchery! Tillotson, speaking of the conduct of certain parents, says, They are such monsters, I had almost said devils--as not to know how to give their children good things. Instead of bringing them to Gods Church, they bring them to the devils chapels, playhouses, places of debauchery, those schools of lewdness and vice.
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