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Originally Posted by Sheltiedad
Why is it that desensitization is one of the reasons touted as to why people should not watch television or other fiction with sex, violence, murder, etc.
But...
When we have been hearing the same horrifying stories over the pulpit about hell for decades we are not supposed to get desensitized to it?
This is why I am shocked when I hear people say that there is not enough "Hellfire and Brimstone" preaching... (and it is usually the same people who believe that television desensitizes you)...
It is not okay for a child to see someone get killed on television, but it is okay for a preacher (some of whom are very good orators) to describe in graphic detail (to audiences including children) what he believes the smell of burning flesh will be like in hell?
It doesn't matter how eternal the consequences are, if all you have in your bag of tricks is how horrible hell will be, eventually people will become desensitized to it... or does that logic only apply when dealing with the one item that is more important than Jesus Christ himself... being anti-television?
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Very interesting. I must say the "hell preaching" I have heard (and really not a lot) has had such an effect on me. I think I block any possibility of comprehension of such torment...