Quotes about Culture

Christians should be a foreign influence, a minority group in a pagan world.

Our popular music talks constantly about love, and yet divorce rates skyrocket.

Many believe that pagan worship is a thing of the past, but it is ever present—we have just given it a new name: pop culture.

An unbelieving world may say otherwise, but so-called "sexual liberation" is actually sexual slavery—slavery to our own lusts.

Today there are more people who know the words to a television commercial than know the words in the Bible.

We are going through a sexual tempest, a bombardment provided by unprecedented exploitation of cheap sex by moviemakers, theater owners, publishers, and producers of pornography. [There is more] openness of talk about sex, acceptance of public nudity … homosexuality. Sex revolution, no! But sex pollution? Yes!!

Sex-centered magazines litter our newsstands … each edition trying to escape new laws from the bottom of the sewers. We put lids on sewer holes. Ought we not to do something about the pornography which is spewing out a polluted river of filth which can destroy us faster than any chemical pollution we seem so worried about?7

As Christians we are constantly bombarded with attitudes and values which are contrary to biblical teaching.

In many homes and among so-called educated people—it has become fashionable to joke about the Bible and to regard it more as a dust-catcher than as the living Word of God.

The architect of popular culture is none other than Satan. He is the chief designer and chief marketer, and he has been branding worldliness since the beginning of time. His methods are shifty and constantly in motion, changing fads and trends to keep the world running in circles, trying to keep up with the latest and greatest.

Our magazine shelves are filled with crime and sex pulp-magazines that are being read and devoured by millions of young people... Scores are seeing each week the trash that Hollywood produces. Truly our children are "movie mad".

Among young people... drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.