The primary problem with TV and secular media is that the final reality communicated is 'impersonal', either philosophic or material but not personal. Whilst it contains much that is violent and sexually orientated it is not the main cause for the rise of violence expressed by so many of todays youth culture. If you look at education anywhere in the world you will find that the final reality taught in all schools world wide is also 'impersonal'.

Science through education teaches our children that humanity has its origins in science and not in faith, particularly the Christian faith. Biology reduces humanity to single cell oragisms that have over time developed into the current complexity we see around us purely by chance. Chemistry has reduce humanity to the DNA template or chemicals making us less than grass. Physics and Hawkins gave us the big bang theory and the black hole.

Not a single living soul is communicated in these subjects and maths and English are little help also particularly english with is lignuistic analysis influences. So when our children come home from school at the end of the week we can be sure that these 'impersonal' systems have been well ground into their thinking. This is why John Howard said our education system is rubbish because he understands the final reality our education system preaches.

During the 60's in America the students at Berkeley rioted with unprecedented violence and students and miliaita were killed as a result. What occurred is still occurring today under the nose of every Christian. The Professors in American University's (Macusa) were teaching their students this 'impersonal' reality and they soon discovered that what they were learnig at university was telling them that humanity equals a zero and so they protested and the protest went accross the Atlantic to France. The students were asking their parents about the value of human life and their parents could not answer their questions. And so a sub-culture in America was born and the hippie sought truth in the area fo the non-rational of existentialism and pantheism (Buddhism). So education here is doing the same thing at every level with absolutely no opposition from Christianity. In America a survey showed that 76% of their population wanted evolution and Christianity taught side by side in American schools. The Supreme court of America said no and Christianity was banned as a subject and prayer made illegal on every American campus. If we remove absolutes from our schools then chaos and the depreciation of humanity is the logical conclusion.

Whilst violence and the sort on TV is not good, most children would spend more time at school than in front of their TV sets. What they see on TV is merely the confirmation of what they are learning as an education at school. We need to see things as part of a total context as opposed to isolated occurrences we observe here and there. The culture that confronts us as Christian's is monolithic and there is nowhere in human thinking that has not been influenced by this total context.

If we wonder why certain issues don't go away like the homosexual question for example we may find we have been fighting largely on the wrong field. Most likely we have addressed the preferences and not the philosophic positions these thing occuppy and driven a wedge between the homosexual and the Christian. But the real enemy is not TV but an education system that teaches an 'impersonal' reality because certain people who make the law in Australia say so. If we look at some of these people we see that the gay community has quite a representation here and also in the AMA (Australian Medical Association). if we the Christian don't know what confronst us then we have little to say against the tide of secular thinking that is our postmodern post-Christian context. This might surprise many Christians but I tell my twelve children to watch the Simpsons every night. They can understand what confronts themas the postmodern context this way. Becuase my wife and I understand postmodernism fairly well, programs like the Simpsons is a satiricle educational comedy. When we watch horros we mainly laugh because in contrast to the reality of God, what hollywood can produce is produced by finite men and women. So understanding what confronts us as Christians and understanding what confronts us as a total context are the two sides of the Christian walk that makes evangelising our post-Christian world a walk in the park.