Clueless MTV
Theme of the Week: What's Wrong with the World?
Charles Colson
Sunday, January 12, 2003
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Key Bible Verse: Those who sin are opposed to the law of God, for all sin opposes the law of God (1 John 3:4). Bonus Reading:Romans 1:18-32
MTV aired a special report intended to show that people still grapple with the same sins that have plagued human nature for millennia. For "The Seven Deadly Sins," it interviewed pop celebrities and ordinary teens, asking them about the sins condemned by Christian tradition as the most dangerous: lust, pride, anger, envy, sloth, greed, and gluttony.
Rap star Ice-T glared into the MTV camera and said, "Lust isn't a sin …. These are all dumb."
"I don't think pride is a sin," snapped actress Kirstie Alley. "I think some idiot made that up. Who made these up anyway?" When told that the seven deadly sins are a heritage of medieval theology, Alley allowed that she hadn't meant "to knock monks or anything." But really—the anti-ego thing didn't work for her.
What the interviews revealed is that modern young people are ignorant of even the basic moral categories. There was not a word about moral responsibility, repentance, or objective standards of right and wrong.
—Charles Colson in A Dangerous Grace
Adapted from A Dangerous Grace (Word, 1994) by permission.
Copyright © 2003 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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