Common Sense Filtering

The television and movie industry continues to thrive because people watch their programs and movies. Most all of the television programs and movies are filled with inappropriate language and content. We as Christians need to be aware of this and not watch any programs or movies that consist of these things. There are some mechanical devices on the market today that filters out bad language and inappropriate scenes. One device that filters bad language, to include euphemisms is the TV Guardian. This was very popular several years ago (we have had one since 1993), but then they stopped making it. In fact for quite sometime you could purchase the TV Guardian for the television and also some DVD and VHS players that had the filter built in. Unfortunately the TV Guardian quit making the device for a number of years. Recently, however, a new TV Guardian has been developed and can now be purchased that has the new HDMI connections for your TV and DVD players. This new TV Guardian will filter out all inappropriate language and euphemisms. Another very good device known as “ClearPlay,” not only filters out bad language, it also deletes inappropriate scenes. Movies can be downloaded from their web site onto a flash drive and then is inserted into the ClearPlay player. Any DVD movie that you play on the ClearPlay player that has the filters from that movie inserted into the player will then filter all inappropriate language and scenes.
          Both of these devices can help Christians ensure that only suitable material is absorbed into our minds. Christians must make sure that we are only watching and listening to things that would be approved of by God. In the absence of these filtering systems, we must be very, very selective as to what we watch on television and DVD players. In addition, it should also be pointed out that there are no filtering devices whatsoever available at the movie theatres. Any movie with bad language and inappropriate scenes will be shown on the big screen! Christians cannot go to the theatres and watch these shows and be pleasing to God. If we have a filtering device in our home, then we will just have to wait until it comes out on DVD if we feel we have a need to watch it at all.