by Roryanne O'Rourke

Created on: January 28, 2010

I never thought I would say it, but the world is spiraling downward into an immoral, degenerative state. It is getting very dark and trying to wipe out Christianity is only the beginning.

Turn on the television after dinner, and you will see couples engaging in romantic situations never seen by the previous generation when they were growing up. Turn on the radio and you hear the most foul, disgusting words recited, that disc jockeys are trying to pass off as music.

Where have the censors gone? They have gone to the dark side, as have the censors and network presidents of all the major cable and broadcast channels. Why is this happening? I believe it is because of all the talk about Christian beliefs and values atheists and agnostics are trying to tear down. Some people are obviously listening.

To give you a few examples, I have to go back to the decade of the seventies. There is a song by the Steve Miller Band, called "Jetliner", that was a popular hit when I was a teenager. There is a line in the song originally written like this: "funky shi* goin' down in the city". On the radio, the line was, "funky kicks goin' down in the city". Anyone who purchased the album knew what the real line was, and I and many of my friends got a kick out of listening to the song on the radio, and smiling every time we heard that line, because we knew about the swear word. That was enough for us; we did not need to hear the word over the air.

Another song, "Eve of Destruction", contains the following lines: "Look around tell me what you see, what's happening to you and me. God grant me the serenity, to remember who I am. Cause you've given up your sanity for your pride and your vanity, turn your back on humanity, and you don't give a da da da da da...."

Obviously, they meant to say, 'and you don't give a damn. We all knew what they meant to say, but we did not need to hear it. Today, artists can recite any and every filthy word or swear word they want in songs. I have never heard human beings say some of these words in my entire life.

Seeing married couples who sleep in separate beds across the room from each other did not faze me growing up. Seeing Laura Petrie on the Dick Van Dyke Show, or Lucy Ricardo, pregnant, left me wondering how that was even possible. However, I left it up to my curiosity and imagination to figure out. That was enough. Sadly, today television and radio leave nothing to the younger generation's imagination. Kids today see and hear it in HD and Surround

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