Comments on: Adult Entertainment Industry Pays My Wife’s Salary http://www.servingbread.net/2007/05/16/adult-entertainment-industry-pays-my-wifes-salary Thoughts, Musings, Reflections, and Ramblings of a campus minister, father, husband, and a Jesus-follower Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:50:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Tyler Watson http://www.servingbread.net/2007/05/16/adult-entertainment-industry-pays-my-wifes-salary#comment-7715 Tyler Watson Thu, 17 May 2007 22:33:30 +0000 http://www.servingbread.net/2007/05/16/adult-entertainment-industry-pays-my-wifes-salary/#comment-7715 Gotcha. Thanks for clearing that up, and nicely put. I agree with you. Gotcha. Thanks for clearing that up, and nicely put. I agree with you.

]]> By: Eddy E http://www.servingbread.net/2007/05/16/adult-entertainment-industry-pays-my-wifes-salary#comment-7714 Eddy E Thu, 17 May 2007 20:04:45 +0000 http://www.servingbread.net/2007/05/16/adult-entertainment-industry-pays-my-wifes-salary/#comment-7714 I agree that the spiritual manifestations of evil work themselves through society. I don't believe we should sit back and pray against the spiritual forces and look beyond the individuals and institutions that keep oppression (in this case pornography) alive. I think the false dichotomy lies if we relegate spirituality to the unseen. When I say it's a spiritual problem, I mean that there is only a spiritual solution--i.e. Jesus bringing hope and transformation to hearts. We can change institutions which will be temporary fixes, but will never defeat the evil. Police, media and government authorities have failed to address the spread of pornography and especially its impact on children. it's time the church steps in and fight the evil that it is. I agree that the spiritual manifestations of evil work themselves through society. I don’t believe we should sit back and pray against the spiritual forces and look beyond the individuals and institutions that keep oppression (in this case pornography) alive.

I think the false dichotomy lies if we relegate spirituality to the unseen. When I say it’s a spiritual problem, I mean that there is only a spiritual solution–i.e. Jesus bringing hope and transformation to hearts. We can change institutions which will be temporary fixes, but will never defeat the evil. Police, media and government authorities have failed to address the spread of pornography and especially its impact on children. it’s time the church steps in and fight the evil that it is.

]]> By: Tyler Watson http://www.servingbread.net/2007/05/16/adult-entertainment-industry-pays-my-wifes-salary#comment-7713 Tyler Watson Thu, 17 May 2007 05:17:04 +0000 http://www.servingbread.net/2007/05/16/adult-entertainment-industry-pays-my-wifes-salary/#comment-7713 I think you're right about how taxes for companies whose products we find deplorable help pay for a lot of what we as a society needs. If memory serves, because of law suits and taxes, tobacco companies actually foot the bill for most of the anti-smoking curriculum and literature we give to children and the rest of the country. The government is actually the biggest money-maker on a pack of cigarettes. I don't think the state of Nevada has a state income tax. So who pays for all the universities, schools, roads, health care, etc. in that state? The casinos mostly. You said, "This is not a societal problem, this is a spiritual problem," and I'm thankful that you're calling it a spiritual problem. But I wonder if this is also a false dichotomy. I wonder if those "rulers of the age" can include those societal forces, those cultural norms that are so broken and unlike God's kingdom. What are your thoughts on this? I think you’re right about how taxes for companies whose products we find deplorable help pay for a lot of what we as a society needs. If memory serves, because of law suits and taxes, tobacco companies actually foot the bill for most of the anti-smoking curriculum and literature we give to children and the rest of the country. The government is actually the biggest money-maker on a pack of cigarettes. I don’t think the state of Nevada has a state income tax. So who pays for all the universities, schools, roads, health care, etc. in that state? The casinos mostly.

You said, “This is not a societal problem, this is a spiritual problem,” and I’m thankful that you’re calling it a spiritual problem. But I wonder if this is also a false dichotomy. I wonder if those “rulers of the age” can include those societal forces, those cultural norms that are so broken and unlike God’s kingdom. What are your thoughts on this?

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