Pop Culture in the Church

This was a bit ago, but I’d still like to share it! While home for Easter weekend, I went to Sunday mass. At times, the homily can be a bit boring and repetitive, but this time it was different. Father was actually talking about something I could relate to in our class. The homily was about media and how it affects us. Apparently the 7 Deadly Sins were being misrepresented making people think that there was more than 7 sins and that they were somehow changing. Father, like myself, was appalled by this. How can the 7 Deadly Sins that have been with us for so many years change? Church, the Bible, and God do not just change. This is all based on tradition and history; if our history changes then how are we supposed to believe what is true and not? The whole point to this blog, is that media blew everything out of proportion making people think that the 7 Deadly Sins were changing, when actuality they were not changing just making known other sins and where they were to be categorized such as venial or less serious sins. It all sounds a bit confusing, but the fact that people were trying to make the Catholic church a fool is ridiculous. The media can definitely take things to far and strain the truth. The bottom line is that we have to take responsibility to believe certain things, and not let the media influence our lives completely!

My priest was also talking about Wikipedia giving false information, and we need to be careful! However, I can not remember all that was said. Sorry this post is not well-explained. I lost my writing from this inititially, but I thought it was interesting and surprising that my priest can also see where are class is coming from in terms of pop culture and media influences!
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