The battle for your mind is real. Is Satan winning?
There is a battle for control of our minds, and it’s playing out to a large degree in the media.
Television, music and the Internet are filledwith deadly leaven—from their ability to affect moods and emotions to their stunning power to shape cultural ideas and trends to how they brazenly promote the smutty, the base, the coarse and the violent. In these last days, the Family of God should beware the deadly leaven of modern media.
Satan uses artists and industry moguls as pawns to spread his “do what you want” leaven.
As shocking as this all may be, just think: The television and music industries are actually regulated industries. They have to adhere to a standard—although that does not say much today. But the Internet is not regulated! It is a wholly lawless landscape, where the most revolting and evil family-destroying poison is just a click away.
CRAWLING WITH DEMONS
Mr. Armstrong decried modern music and television. In one article, he wrote about how the Beatles changed the culture of the Western world: “In a way, the Beatles started this modern trend in Satan-influenced lifestyle of degenerating culture and sense of social values” (Worldwide News, Dec. 22, 1980).
The entertainment industry is crawling with demons. Many artists are not only influenced by demons, some actively seek to be led or even possessed by them. “I tried to emptymyself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me,” Oprah said about her work on the set of the movie Beloved. “Every morning, before my scenes, I lit candles and said the names of these slaves. I prayed every day to the ancestors.”
Consider the change that overtakes pop singer Beyoncé. “Beyoncé was a shy, quiet kid,” Rolling Stone reported in 2004. “When she was 7 and in the first grade at St. Mary’s, a Catholic school in Houston, a dance teacher, Miss Darlette Johnson, pushed her to join the school talent show. ‘I was terrified and I didn’t wanna do it. And she’s like, “C’mon, baby, get out there,”’ Beyoncé says. ‘I remember walking out and I was scared, but when the music started, I don’t know what happened. I just … changed.’ Both of her parents were in the audience. [Her mother] recalls, ‘We both said, “Who is that?”’
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