My Entertainment is More important than Integrity

Integrity, a thing of the past for most mainstream Entertainment, or notable figures in society etc.....

Is there anyone you know, whose integrity are you willing to defend, by so much as refusing to see a movie, or buy a book?

Imagine this analogy,

Your an adopted Kid. The man who adopted you, and you call Dad, is WELL KNOWN....lets say a Coach at the Jr and High Schools in a small town...(~13K). Everyone knows Him. And they have known of him for years. He's been there forever. He is even known internationally for his methods of Coaching. Many want to "copy" him, but have not been able to do so. Dad dies early. Many morn the loss.

Then enter the new kid. He was not into sports. He preferred Historical literature. He was good at it too. But now, all of a sudden, he picks your 'deceased' Dad as a subject. He has gathered "Historical" data in abundance, dates and times that the entire town and even most of the international community are familiar with. He writes a "Novel". He Claims events, pictures, art and societies in this "Novel" are real - Factual. But some of the "items" he refers to as Facts, are not. The story line he says is up to you to determine the nature of it's truth. He refuses to state in any interview, or on his website that the story is a lie, a mis-representation, or false in any manor of speaking.

He twists the name and life of your Dad into a story line that's a shocker, a real attention grabber.

(Like the nightly news, no gruesome stuff to report, so they tell you about the Shop Murders that happened ten years ago....)

Instead of a Coach who was a standup guy, wonderful family man, community supporter, etc.... This story shows him as a child molester, who was really a homosexual predator; he beat his wife and kids and sold drugs to the kids he molested at the school to support his other family just across the state line. They took their inheritance and moved to France and became the Salvation Lineage

The book is a smash. Everyone wants to read it and talk about it. The People who knew your Dad are of mixed opinions about supporting this financially, by buying the book.

Would you, who know him personally, want to buy this book?

What about you, if you were the Adopted Kid? This person took you in, gave you hope, a new life. Would you want to glorify the man trying to make a buck off of your Dad's memory?

So it's Fiction. You tell everyone it's fiction. You know it's lies. Many of the towns people know it's LIES also. But there are those who knew your Dad casually. They come to you and continually ask, "Is this possible? Could it be true? How do these facts about your Dad make you feel?

How about it? Do you willingly deny Christ for fun? Fun that you are paying others to create? Sort of funding it for the World?

You don't have to tear this author down, or his book. But why on earth would you support it?

Maybe cause what He did for you, isn't that important? Maybe your just blind to what it means to have integrity. If you have rules, they must be set. If you keep bending, one day, the rules are meaningless. Then your kids won't honor you either.



Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code is like this analogy. Perhaps Da Vinci did create some stuff about his own failure to believe in the Truth of Christ. He's met his maker already. Are you ready to meeet yours?

The Truth will set you free. Talking about your faith in your Dad, Christ and supporting Him and that faith DOES bring Glory to Him.

All Praise Honor and Glory be to God, His Son whose Sacrifice was for me, and His Holy Spirit, Who I hope will dwell in me from this day forth. I also PRay for those, who claim to be the adopted, but don't Stand for Him.

I wonder what Tom Hanks' faith is.