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Having already said so much in other threads, I'll limit my comments this time... I agree with Craig and Debbie. My own experience coincides with what has been mentioned, and I've found that in literature as with other entertainment (and life in general) there is a problem both with the message we convey to others and the effect on ourselves. Getting "used to" bad content has a net effect (which I can rationally perceive in my own experience) of desensitizing the consumer (the slippery slope again) so that more and more is acceptable. There is judgment, and struggle, and self-denial called for here. Eph 4:17-24
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.
You, however, did not come to know Christ that way. Surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. (NIV)
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