THINK ON THIS

A quote from John Piper's Pierced By the Word ~

"If all other variables are equal, your capacity to know God deeply will probably diminish in direct proportion to how much television you watch. There are several reasons for this. One is that television reflects American culture at its most trivial. And a steady diet of triviality shrinks the soul. You get used to it. It starts to seem normal. Silly becomes funny. And funny becomes pleasing. And pleasing becomes soul-satisfaction. And in the end the soul that is made for God has shrunk to fit snugly around triteness." (p. 77)

Does this hit you between the eyes as it did me? Every time I read it I'm convicted. This is why I'm rereading Postman's book, Amusing Ourselves to Death. His whole point is not content but form. The question isn't, "What should we be watching?" but "Should we turn the thing on at all?"