ABC’s “Eastwick”: The promotion of the occult

By: American Decency Staff

1. For many, Wednesday evening has been “church nightâ€Â.   At least that’s how it been in our area.  Church “family nightâ€Â events, prayer meetings, choir practice, youth group meetings.  Not so much anymore, but in years past a night even respected by our local public school system where school events were not scheduled on Wednesday evenings and teachers gave less homework knowing many students were involved in church activities. Sadly, to a great extent those practices have fallen by the wayside.  Another victim of a decaying culture is the family night of television when there would be evenings of programming geared for families.  Gone, too, is the so-called “family hourâ€Â, where from 8:00 – 9:00 parents could have some confidence in the content of television shows.   Perusing the networks today, I’m not aware of a single network show fit for family viewing. And Wednesday evening television on ABC is not only unfit for family viewing, it’s an outright attack on the family.  First there is the show  “Modern Familyâ€Â, a show bent on undermining the traditional – the biblical – definition of marriage and family; followed by “Cougar Townâ€Â, which, as we’ve previously reported, is a tawdry depiction of a middle-age woman on the prowl for one-night stands with men half her age .  And finally there’s “Eastwickâ€Â. “Eastwickâ€ÂÂ  combines the degrading themes of the two shows above, while also throwing in the promotion of the occult along with an attack on Christianity and God’s Word.  The show’s premise is of three women who discover they have powers of witchcraft, which is referred to as “the giftâ€Â.  Mixed throughout this glorification of the occult are the sexual exploits of the three featured women.  Explicit sex scenes, vulgar dialogue involving everything from genitals to sex toys, and of course the now common theme of an older woman sleeping with a young guy – her so-called “man candyâ€Â. This woman, a mother of a teenage girl, has no qualms about bringing home her “man candyâ€Â while offering motherly counsel to her daughter, telling the teen, “rebellion is funâ€Â, encouraging her to try it.  After the daughter has spent time in her bedroom with her boyfriend, the mother excitingly asks,  “Is that a hickey?  What base did you get to?  Second?  Second and a half?â€ÂÂ  Then proudly tells her friend,   “My baby’s first hickey!â€Â Another character included on the show “Eastwickâ€Â is a local pastor.  Of course now-a-days when a Christian is portrayed on television nine out of ten times the character will predictably turn out to be  a hypocrite, a criminal or a judgmental ogre.    In this case, the character of the pastor is depicted as all three.  A man described by one of the main characters as a “self-righteous blowhardâ€Â who, after opposing the construction of a brewery on a site intended for the building of a church, is caught flagrante delicto with a prostitute.  Typical Hollywood storyline from an industry bent on indoctrinating viewers with the belief that Christianity is a fraud. And then we have the “mysteriousâ€Â male character, presumably representing the devil, quoting the Bible to one of the women under his tutelage.  He quotes Ezekiel  25:17, which speaks of God’s vengeance and wrath and tells his “witch-in-trainingâ€Â, “Why shoud  Heâ€Â – referring to the Lord God – “get to have all the fun?  Vengeance is primal.  Why should we suppress our basic instincts, sanitize our desires?  Just so we can go to bed every night and feel like decent people?â€Â The woman/witch responds, “I’m going to hell, aren’t I?â€ÂÂ  To which he replies, “I can think of worse places to spend eternity.â€Â What a telling statement:  “Why should we suppress our basic instincts, sanitize our desires?  Just so we can go to bed every night and feel like decent people?â€ÂÂ Â Â  What an apt description of what Hollywood puts forth over the airwaves. Well, there is certainly nothing sanitized about the content of “Eastwickâ€Â.    But as those at ABC who produce this swill wallow in their baser “instinctsâ€Â, they may also want to read Galatians 6:7,8 – “Do not be deceived:  God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.  For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.â€Â The Lord is a holy God – slow to anger, but righteous and just in all His ways.   The writers and producers of “Eastwickâ€Â might want to re-think where they want to spend eternity. Advertisers for ABC's "Eastwick" for October 14 (advertisers for last night's to follow later today) Click here: Advertisers include: Macy's, Hershey, Payless Shoe Source ==================================== American Decency Association Bill Johnson, President P.O. Box 202 Fremont, MI 49412 ph: 231-924-4050 www.americandecency.org http://www.twitter.com/billwjohnson

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