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Declaring War in the name of God
By Alan Hood | August 25, 2007
I just love it when people or organizations declare war in the name of God. Christiane Amanpour the chief international correspondent for CNN is doing a special series called “God’s Warriors” and I just had to check it out. The first story that caught my attention was a story titled “Teen Christians campaign against pop culture” the sounds interesting enough; well I knew it would be good fodder for an article. Anytime American teens get involved in anything I know there is a driving commercial force behind the cause.
The story starts with poor little Jared Hutchins not being able to listen to the Beatles, because the bands world view had a negative affect on his delicate sensibilities. Jared it would seem to me is a typical American child that has learned to gravitate to any organization that will allow him to blame his troubles on anything but himself, and be a part of a group. My picture of Jared is one of a lonely kid sitting in his room with no friends or means of getting his hands on an AK-47 to take to school the next day to solve his problems. Jared then turns to religion and blames popular kids and pop culture for making him an outcast. Jared states that he has to be careful of the music he listens to. Why Jared are you really that easily influenced by what you hear in a song? Well I guess he is that easily influence because he joined this “Christian” organization with the slogan “BattleCry”.
Ron Luce the founder of Teen Mania is most certainly a marketing genius, but I have to wonder about the stability of any person who would want to be surrounded by teens. Teen Mania with their slogan BattleCry has hats, shirts, mobile screen savers, and a television program. Isn’t pop culture based on things like mobile phones and television? Luce has used pop culture to get the attention of a bunch of insecure kids who don’t fit in to start his own little pop culture. Genius I tell you genius.
I am wholeheartedly for capitalism, but let’s call it what it is. Teen Mania is a commercial enterprise that preys on children and their insecurities in the name of God. All teenagers get to a point in their lives when they struggle with right and wrong and what they can do to be a part of something bigger than themselves. I am sure this is exactly what Jesus wanted when he was walking the earth, saving people. He wanted future generations to declare war in his name, and exploit young children for commercial gain.
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