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Remember the day, to keep it holy.
- Exodus 20:8
If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour Him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD.
- Isaiah 58:13-14a
Honour thy father and thy' mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
- Exodus 20:12
Honour all men, Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
- I Peter 2:11
Thou shalt not kill.
- Exodus 20:13
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Enyyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
- Galatians 5:19-21
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The Lord's Day is not holy enough for most viewers to keep their television sets turned off. A small percentage may still do so for conscience sake; yet the desire and craving for it remains even on Sunday. All activities which do not promote communion with God (except works of necessity or emergency) on the Lord's Day break the fourth commandment.
5. Television breaks God's fifth commandment by its frequent portrayal of disrespect for those in authority.
Comedy shows often derive their "humor" from mocking all types of authority: policemen, politicians, supervisors, ministers, parents, etc.
Programs often promote a glorification of outwitting authority, of disobedience, and rebellion. When are programs viewed which portray a close-knit family, in which the parents love their children and the children obey their parents from a spirit of love and respect, as taught in God's Word? All promotion of disrespect for those in authority transgresses the fifth commandment.
An average fourteen-year-old has witnessed eighteen thousand violent assaults and murders via television entertainment. The average child between five and thirteen years of age watches thirteen hundred murders each year. Murders, assaults, fights, and violent language assume the role of normal behavior in television programming. The average child's program contains thirty-eight acts of violence per hour and an adult program, twenty.
Violence on television is glamorized, but its true consequences are not shown. The guilty conscience of the murderer, the bereaved family, the orphaned children, the solemn graveyards, and the painful recovery from assault are not portrayed. A fight, car chase, or shoot-out is filmed and the violence is seen as "exciting," but the real after-effects
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