Comments on: Dick Staub: Shallowness in Popular American Culture http://www.bencotten.net/media/music/shallow_culture/ This is my story and I'm sticking to it. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:02:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Greg http://www.bencotten.net/media/music/shallow_culture/comment-page-1/#comment-301 Greg Thu, 17 May 2007 14:36:46 +0000 http://www.bencotten.net/2007/05/14/shallow_culture/#comment-301 The Quote of the Day: "American popular culture is overwhelmingly dominated not by art or craft but by superficiality. A lot of Christians are concerned about bad language and nudity in film...I'm actually more concerned about triviality...about the banality of it." Read the above statement 10 times out loud. Until this sinks into the evangelical mind we will continue to be irrelevant to the culture that surrounds us. And what do we find in Christian bookstores? Thomas Kinkade paintings, WWJD? paraphenalia, Joel Osteen's "Your Best Life Now" bestseller...need I say more? You can't get more superficial than that. The Quote of the Day:

“American popular culture is overwhelmingly dominated not by art or craft but by superficiality. A lot of Christians are concerned about bad language and nudity in film…I’m actually more concerned about triviality…about the banality of it.”

Read the above statement 10 times out loud. Until this sinks into the evangelical mind we will continue to be irrelevant to the culture that surrounds us.

And what do we find in Christian bookstores? Thomas Kinkade paintings, WWJD? paraphenalia, Joel Osteen’s “Your Best Life Now” bestseller…need I say more? You can’t get more superficial than that.

]]> By: Ben Cotten http://www.bencotten.net/media/music/shallow_culture/comment-page-1/#comment-287 Ben Cotten Tue, 15 May 2007 03:42:41 +0000 http://www.bencotten.net/2007/05/14/shallow_culture/#comment-287 The more I see of Dick Staub the more I like. I've got another follow-up to this segment that I plan on posting later this week. The more I see of Dick Staub the more I like. I’ve got another follow-up to this segment that I plan on posting later this week.

]]> By: Terry Henry http://www.bencotten.net/media/music/shallow_culture/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Terry Henry Tue, 15 May 2007 00:49:47 +0000 http://www.bencotten.net/2007/05/14/shallow_culture/#comment-286 Who is this masked man? As a friend of mine Robert Mearns has said time and time again, the boat in the water is good but water in the boat is not. I guess that is why I appreciated the first couple of books that John Eldredge wrote. As a Christian he convinced me that I could even find relevance in what Bob Dylan wrote or "30 Something" on TV presented. This guy is right on. I just saw the 3rd Spiderman movie and wonder why it was even made...it didn't do much for me. It was 2 hours and 20 minutes of special effects and watching the camera work its' way around almost nothing. Who is this masked man? As a friend of mine Robert Mearns has said time and time again, the boat in the water is good but water in the boat is not.

I guess that is why I appreciated the first couple of books that John Eldredge wrote. As a Christian he convinced me that I could even find relevance in what Bob Dylan wrote or “30 Something” on TV presented.

This guy is right on. I just saw the 3rd Spiderman movie and wonder why it was even made…it didn’t do much for me. It was 2 hours and 20 minutes of special effects and watching the camera work its’ way around almost nothing.

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