| Re: The West Versus the Islamic World
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Originally Posted by CagedTroll Wasn't saying you weren't. Just illustrating a point.  The "favorite all-time liberal argument" is slightly younger than the "favorite all-time conservative argument", that THEATER is somehow IMMORAL. Dates back Greco-Roman times, btw, with Dionysius the patron god of both wine and theater. The "backstage" parties got a little out of hand, so the government was forced to outlaw them, but the priests at rival (and less popular) temples.
You've got warning labels, v-chips, and (more importantly) you've got books. If nothing else, you've got VHS, DVD, and TBN. You get to control what you watch, we've got more entertainment options than ever before, and most of it is indeed trash. But the majority likes trash, otherwise American Idol would have gone off-the-air halfway through the first episode. | My idea of trash is illicit sex, drugs, profanity. Actually, it is funny you bring up theater (and yes I GET IT that you weren't meaning theather per se). My daughter is "Broadway-bound" and the current big winner of the Tony awards is "Avenue Q" which has 'full puppet nudity' for crying out loud. 
The stuff like that doesn't bother me as much as plain ol' every other word is a curse word, etc..
Sigh... on to real life for the day.
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