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Hope in Hollywood? (Culture War).

The New American

| June 16, 2003 | Jasper, William F. | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

With the entertainment industry bent on subverting Christian values, a few celebrities are breaking ranks -- to varying degrees -- by speaking out on faith, family, and morality.

Is America's entertainment industry, as epitomized by Hollywood, a hopeless, irredeemable cesspool? Considering the daily outpouring of tastelessness, obscenity, sexual promiscuity, depravity, sacrilege, and ultra-violence in television programming, movies, video games, commercials, and music, one is tempted to think so. We are, in the words of social critic Neil Postman, "amusing ourselves to death." Yet to throw our hands up in despair is to concede defeat to the purveyors of ...

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