Media

1.       “The choices we make in media can be symbolic of the choices we make in life.  Choosing the trendy, the titillating, the tawdry in the TV programs or movies we watch can cause us to end up, if we’re not careful, choosing the same things in the lies we live”.  ( L Tom Perry  “Let Our Voices Be Heard” Ensign, November 2003 pp  )

2.       “If we do not make good choices, the media can devastate our families and pull our children away from the narrow gospel path.”    ( L Tom Perry  “Let Our Voices Be Heard” Ensign, November 2003 pp  )

3.       “Remember, there is no such thing as unlawful censorship in the home.  Movies, magazines, television, videos, the internet, and other media are there as guests and should only be welcomed when they are appropriate for family enjoyment.”  (L Tom Perry “Like A Flame Unquenchable”  Ensign, May  1999 pp)

4.       You can become depressed if all of your interests are focused on the media with its explicit details of the most worrisome world events.  With care you can find much to reverently appreciate in this world Father in Heaven has given you.”  ( Richard G. Scott “The Power of  Righteousness” October 1998)

5.       “Technology has expanded, and almost everyone has access to handheld devices that can capture the attention of the human family of God for both great good and unconscionable ill” ( Elder M. Russell Ballard  “The Greatest Generation of Young Adults” Ensign, May 2015 pp 67-70)

6.       “I raise an apostolic voice of warning about the potentially stifling, suffocating, suppressing, and constraining impact of some kinds of cyberspace interactions and experiences upon our souls. The concerns I raise are not new; they apply equally to other types of media, such as television, movies, and music. But in a cyber world, these challenges are more pervasive and intense. I plead with you to beware of the sense-dulling and spiritually destructive influence of cyberspace technologies that are used to produce high fidelity and that promote degrading and evil purposes.” (David A. Bednar “Things As They Really Are” From a Church Educational System fireside address delivered at Brigham Young University– Idaho on May 3, 2009.)

7.       “Please be careful of becoming so immersed and engrossed in pixels, texting, earbuds, twittering, online social networking, and potentially addictive uses of media and the Internet that you fail to recognize the importance of your physical body and miss the richness of person-to-person communication.” (David A. Bednar “Things As They Really Are” From a Church Educational System fireside address delivered at Brigham Young University– Idaho on May 3, 2009.)

8.       “The choices we make in media can be symbolic of the choices we make in life. Choosing the trendy, the titillating, the tawdry in the TV programs or movies we watch can cause us to end up, if we’re not careful, choosing the same things in the lives we live.” (M. Russell Ballard “Let Our Voices Be Heard” lds.org conference October 2003)

9.       “Often media’s most devastating attacks onfamily are not direct or frontal or openly immoral.  Intelligent evil is too cunning for that, knowing that most people still profess belief in family and in traditional values.  Rather the attacks are subtle and amoral—Issues of right and wrong don’t even come up.  Immorality and sexual innuendo are everywhere, causing some to believe that because everyone is doing it, it must be all right. This pernicious evil is not out in the street somewhere; it is coming right into our homes, right into the heart of our families.” (M. Russell Ballard “Let Our Voices Be Heard” lds.org conference October 2003)

10.   “Now, we live in an age when that cleanliness is more and more difficult to preserve. With modern technology even your youngest brothers and sisters can be carried virtually around the world before they are old enough to ride a tricycle safely across the street.  What we were in my generation carefree moments of movie going, TV watching, and magazine reading have now, with the additional availability of VCRs, the Internet, and personal computers, become amusements fraught with genuine moral danger.  I put the word amusements in italics.  Did you know that the original Latin meaning of the word amusement is ‘a diversion of the mind intended to deceive’? Unfortunately that is largely what ‘amusements’ in our day have become in the hands of the deceiver.”