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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, JUNE 29, 1984
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priest to his death. Jones then returns to the village with the
hundreds of children he has saved from enslavement, restoring the
sacred rock of Shiva to its proper place.
Columnist George Will, who saw the movie, said this about it in his syndi
cated column of May 31:
A football game is approximately nine minutes of action and a
couple of hours of standing around and sorting things out. This
movie is about nine minutes of relative calm and 109 minutes of
violent action punctuated by intervals of mere repulsiveness....
The flogging, roasting and heart-plucking are not suitable for
children••.• The truth is that this movie, as fare for children,
is unsuitable, and as a cultural symptom is depressing. It is.••
an example of the upward ratchet effect of shocking extremism in
popular entertainment. This march toward the shocking is pro
ducing� generation that would yawn through the parting of the
Red Sea.
The two persons who are responsible for INDIANA JONES AND THE
TEMPLE OF DOOM, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, are commercial
geniuses••.• But the sensory blitzkrieg that they have produced
to coin money is apt to stunt the imaginations of children.
Just another proof that we are indeed living in the "last days" when "peri
lous times will come," when people would be "lovers of money.••unloving...
brutal" (II Tim. 3:1-3 RAV}.
There have been so many parental group protests over such violence-filled
movies such as INDIANA JONES that the movie industry has been forced to
split the "PG" (Parental Guidance} rating into two divisions, PG and "PG-
13." The really gory stuff will now be classified in the latter category.
The new rating will not require theater operators to bar youngsters under
the age of 13 from attending such films. But under the new code parents
will be "strongly cautioned to give special guidance for children under
13." Sure.
There's no doubt who is inspiring such so-called entertainment, either.
Guess what the latest sequel to the book (and movie) THE EXORCIST is called?
LEGION.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau