Post by sette on Nov 16, 2008 21:28:53 GMT -5
With the recent passage of the TV resolution that only allows Pastors to advertise but does not allow for the keeping or watching TV is strategically a stroke of genuis.
The framers of the resolution had to have seen to impending conflicts that would arise as a result of the referendum.
My personal opinion is that this is the UPCI's way of moving to the mainstream, albeit very slowly.
There is an element within the orginization to no longer wants to be the "BackWater Pentecostals" as quoted by Charisma Magazine a few years ago.
To say that you can advertise but never watch your own commercial is humorous, but I cannot believe that the proposers did not know that most people will see the incongruency up front.
It will only be a matter of time before dropping the ban altogether will be up for a vote. A large portion of UPC people already have a TV and some that have heard the news probably think it is now legal to have one, not understanding that it is for advertisement only.
Many are still squabbling over TV when most of them have Computers with the capability of having a Video Card with a built-in TV Tuner so that you can watch TV on the computer.
Not only that, to hear people talk of the ungodliness on TV and then go turn on their computer which is a thousand times as filled with things that will never be shown on TV.
How many people with no TV are regularly watching online porn and feel justified that they don't have a TV?
IF TV is no longer a sin, then what else was preached as a "going-to-hell-sin" that really wasn't?
What is your opinion?
The framers of the resolution had to have seen to impending conflicts that would arise as a result of the referendum.
My personal opinion is that this is the UPCI's way of moving to the mainstream, albeit very slowly.
There is an element within the orginization to no longer wants to be the "BackWater Pentecostals" as quoted by Charisma Magazine a few years ago.
To say that you can advertise but never watch your own commercial is humorous, but I cannot believe that the proposers did not know that most people will see the incongruency up front.
It will only be a matter of time before dropping the ban altogether will be up for a vote. A large portion of UPC people already have a TV and some that have heard the news probably think it is now legal to have one, not understanding that it is for advertisement only.
Many are still squabbling over TV when most of them have Computers with the capability of having a Video Card with a built-in TV Tuner so that you can watch TV on the computer.
Not only that, to hear people talk of the ungodliness on TV and then go turn on their computer which is a thousand times as filled with things that will never be shown on TV.
How many people with no TV are regularly watching online porn and feel justified that they don't have a TV?
IF TV is no longer a sin, then what else was preached as a "going-to-hell-sin" that really wasn't?
What is your opinion?