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Thu 29 Jan, 2004 10:09 pm
SUPERBOWL SUNDAY
What began as the championship game between two competing football leagues in 1967 has since become an American entertainment extravaganza.
The transition from championship football game to cultural event was engineered by the corporate world as it realized, and continues to realize, the tremendous marketing opportunities afforded by broadening the appeal of the event. With its broadened appeal, people saw the Super Bowl as a great opportunity for conservativeism and have hosted Super Bowl parties for this purpose.
However, the television event has become, especially in recent years, a spectacle of immorality. Half-time shows are increasingly fluent by the display of overt sexuality. Many advertisements feature the same theme, as well as condone the sexual objectification of women, illicit sexuality, rampant materialism, and indiscriminate alcohol consumption.
The half-time show of Super Bowl 2004 will be hosted by MTV, notorious for its use of filth to appeal to youth. And, as if MTV's filth is not enough, viewers can elect to watch the "Lingerie Bowl" featuring scantily-clad models as they get "down and dirty" for a game of tackle football.
As Super Bowl 2004 approaches, we must ask ourselves: Is it possible for a conservative to align itself with the Super Bowl in its moral efforts without aligning itself with the general godlessness of the event? Can the conservatives hosting Super Bowl parties effectively screen out the immorality associated with the game? Or, is this inherently an unmoral alliance?
As we answer this question one thing is cer-tain. As Conservatives, we are called to be a "salt" and a "light." We are not called to conformity. It must be different with us. It would be easy to retreat from this difficult world altogether. Many questions and situations would not have to be faced. However, Conservatives command to their morals is not to leave the world, but to go out into it with the light of immorality.
In this approach, which takes so many different forms for so many different conservatives, one thing is certain: the immorality must influence the world more than the world influences the immorality. If the latter occurs, all moral efforts, regardless of their good intent, will ultimately fail.
AND LASTLY THREE QUOTES:
RESTORING THE MORAL COMMITMENT?
Restoring the moral commitment of Americans may be the biggest challenge on the horizon for the immorality.
Recognizing the nature and magnitude of that challenge is the first step toward solving the problem. The stakes are huge. If conservatives fail to rise up and play the role of social reformer, America is likely to adopt forms of hypertolerance that would make the Liberals blush.
Truth demands confrontation. And now we must ask where we as conservatives, have been in the battle for truth and morality in our
culture. Have we as conservatives been on the front lines contending for the faith and confronting the moral breakdown over the last forty to sixty years? Have we even been aware that there is a battle going on? ...
"... The half-time show of Super Bowl 2004 will be hosted by MTV, notorious for its use of filth to appeal to youth. And, as if MTV's filth is not enough, viewers can elect to watch the "Lingerie Bowl" featuring scantily-clad models as they get "down and dirty" for a game of tackle football. ..."
Where did you plagiarize this from?
You're not a good enough speller to have written it yourself.
And by the way, if you have this much of a problem with scantily-clad models at the Super Bowl, then you just shouldn't watch.
And one last thing: it's been 2004 for almost a month now.
Well, ya got trouble
And that starts with t
and that rhymes with b
and that stands for ball
Folks we got lots and lots of trouble
Got to find a way to play conservative Christian Superbowls
We surely got trouble
PDiddie wrote:You're not a good enough speller to have written it yourself.
My thots exactly.
Ah well... It's nice to have opposing points of view.
Hell, I'm a moderate conservative. Keep your hands off the remote control, and don't double dip in the guacamole. Now, it's halftime, where the heck is that lingerie bowl?
An addition to my first post:
"... As Super Bowl 2004 approaches, we must ask ourselves: Is it possible for conservatives to align itself with the Super Bowl in its moral efforts without aligning itself with the general conservativeness of the event? Can conservatives hosting Super Bowl parties effectively screen out the immorality associated with the game? Or, is this inherently an unmoral alliance? ..."
Godlessness? Honestly....
1. Name your source. Copying and pasting someone else's work is "immoral". And illegal.
2. As already stated, if you don't like it, don't watch it. Free will and all that.
3. I think it's wrong for advertisements to get all the credit for promoting indiscriminate alcohol consumption. I try my best and hardly make a dent in the social fabric. All that effort and Miller High Life wasted.
4. Morals are different from person to person. What may be immoral to you may be perfectly moral to me. I think it more unjust for people to try and control the world at large based on their personal morals.
5. The "MTV is the devil" is so 80's. Now, if it was being hosted by some anime porn distributor you might be a little closer to filth, but MTV? Very passe.
6. Scantily-clad models do not threaten my sense of 'morality' or my confidence in my relationships. Anyone it bothers that much is already insecure. Teh only thing I might agree with is that it is inappropriate for children that might be watching the game - but beign on another channel and having the responsible parents I know you all are, this point is moot.
7. I host and star in my own scantily-clad wrestling show with MTV running in the background. Call the cops.
Sugar wrote:7. I host and star in my own scantily-clad wrestling show with MTV running in the background. Call the cops.
Is that taped in the "angry room".
Found it myself. It's a pdf file. Article is on the right hand side about halfway down.
American Decency
Sugar wrote:You know it is.
I was just wondering where to install the secret cameras...
Oh! Wait a minute.. Nevah mind! Ixnay on the cameras.
Quote: In this approach, which takes so many different forms for so many different conservatives, one thing is certain: the immorality must influence the world more than the world influences the immorality. If the latter occurs, all moral efforts, regardless of their good intent, will ultimately fail.
Can someone explain what this means?
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