Choosing to watch TV and movies over to read good books has not only won the interest of many, but it has also transformed an individual's mind from being relatively active into being passive. People have become less critical in their thinking with the influence of movies in their lives. What a person perceives on the screen has kept him from knowing the objective truth, and his beliefs are therefore angled to one side only.
Images do not only fill our imagination, but they also influence us to choose which of the two to follow: good or evil. And the threatening part in here is when people fall prey on the evils it forces us to believe in.
We know that we are not taking all the viewers in general, but the simple truth behind everything is that not everyone has the mind to differentiate between what is moral and what is not.
And with this being the case, more people are being trapped by the wrong image-makers of the media.
This truth is seen in our society today, and in my view the children are the ones who are widely affected by this mistake. Whatever a child sees, he will never have an idea that it is wrong, unless an adult is present to censor the images that he will view. Since they are children, they will never know that constraints and the truth.
But I am not concluding that all images present evil - they are only powerful. And with this power that they acquire, it would therefore be better to use it in the best way that would benefit all.
If images have the power to influence a person's ideals, to move a person's mind, and to somehow present truths and lessons, then definitely we could sanctify these images to bring forth sanctity, which is the truth that God wants us all to be imbued with.
