Explain why Christian parents might control the television of their children.

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Explain why Christian parents might control the television of their children.

The average six to eleven year-old watches 27 hours of television per week.  Many Christians are concerned about the values portrayed on television.  Many of the most popular programs, however, include sexual promiscuity, profanity, anti-family and anti-Christian plots, occultism, graphic violence, and materialism. These are all things which Christianity teaches strongly against. Materialism Jesus strongly criticises in the Parable of the Rich Fool. This tells of a rich man who produced a good crop. He decided to tear down his barns and build bigger ones to store all his grain and goods. He then intended to take life easy. But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?”

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Many Christians also use Paul’s teaching from his letter to the Philippians, "whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable -- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy -- think about such things" (Philippians 4:8). Some Christians feel that many television programs do not fit into the above, and therefore have a negative attitude towards these programs.

Research has also proven that the more television that a person watches, the more violent he or she is likely to be. This is of course a generalisation, and obviously this isn’t true for ...

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