Perversion, Pervert - really strong words. But we accept the perversion of things so easily if they are dressed up in a glossy, attractive way. Especially on TV.
I was watching 'Private Practice' while eating my late dinner after work. I like the show.The characters are good looking, the conversation is witty, the stories heart-warming, just like most drama series. However, I could hear the HS just speaking over the conversations. It's been more frequent since I have been alerted to what perversion is.
Wikipedia defines perversion as:
A concept describing the types of human behaviour that are perceived to be a serious deviation from what is considered normal or orthodox. Although it can refer to varying forms of deviation, it is most often used to describesexual behaviours that are seen as abnormal or excessive.
Collins English Dictionary defines it as:
1 any abnormal means of obtaining sexual satisfaction
2 the act of perverting or the state of being perverted
3 a perverted form or usage
As always, it is the message about sexual behaviour and the concept of God that is perverted and dished out to be swallowed by many, believers and the perishing alike.
In the last 3 episodes I have watched, there have been so many things that have pained me.
- The psychologist sleeps with 2 men at a time. Although she confesses she is in a mess, it is not seen as a bad thing. Cooper, the doctor tells her to enjoy as much sex as she wants.
- An old lady is admitted to be treated for a stroke. She has a son who wishes her to live with her now, but she refuses. Turns out that she is lesbian and does not want to leave her partner.She had been with her partner for many years, even while she was married to her husband. Her son is upset, but later grants her a chance to be 'happy' now. the doctors encourage her to be 'who is really is'.
- Addison, the main character, cheats on her boyfriend with another doctor. She has done so before in previous relationships. She's a beautiful, intelligent, rich doctor. Though her friends tell her it's wrong, yet by 'following her instincts and her heart', she does it again anyway.
- Catholic doctor Naomi is divorced from her husband Sam in the same clinic. She has strong views on abortion, and is heart-stricken when one is carried out in the clinic. She believes religiously that it is wrong to take a life. But others argue that it is for the good of every woman to choose. But she does not feel a qualm to jump into the arms of Addie's brother and have 'good sex without a relationship'.
- The religious Southener patients who come in are often made to look like religious idiots who believe in the laughing possiblity of 'miracles'.
The show often leaves people feeling warm and fuzzy. But it's mostly perverted! Without being careful, one wouldn't even notice that much. Everyone's so human, loving and they are all so 'emotional' and compassionate.But it's all so WRONG!
I don't know, but I don't think I can watch anymore.
Blind Blind Blind. O God. I ask not only that you open people's eyes, but you continue opening and washing mine. Let not the light in my eyes be darkness. Woe to myself and to anyone who will call darkness light, and light darkness.
No, it is not denying our 'true selves' or other people's 'true selves' when we condemn homosexuality and lesbianism. A person might be biologically disposed towards it, just like they are towards alcoholism, or anger, or cancer, or anything destructive. One would be crazy to tell an alchoholic that it is his 'true self' to be continually drinking and drunk. One would be crazy to tell a person predisposed to anger and killing that it is his 'true self' to be a murderer. Yet this is what we are told about same sex relationships each day.
It is a perversion to see sex between even a male and female thrown around so casually, and mistakes glossed over so lightly.
It is totally skewed to be so stricken at the loss of a fetus and yet jump happily into casual sex
It is a perversion of the concept of God's followers that they are uneducated idiots.
But isn't that what I do everyday when I don't submit the entirety of my life and standards to the Word of God? When I accept without testing all these subtle msgs? When I don't stand up for justice, righteousness, charity, love and for the evidence of the living God?
God. Help me. Help us all. Open the eyes of our heart and spirits.
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