"From Disapproval to Delight"
Marvin Olasky on the changing Evangelical attitude toward Hollywood:
“Early in the 20th century the reaction of many evangelicals to the movies was…: Don’t go to productions viewed as tawdry or (at best) consumers of time that could better be spent at church picnics. But the appeal of lights/camera/action overwhelmed strict separationism, and films were increasingly seen as delights of life like vines and fig trees (some of which produced rotten figs and deserved to wither).”
“Early in the 20th century the reaction of many evangelicals to the movies was…: Don’t go to productions viewed as tawdry or (at best) consumers of time that could better be spent at church picnics. But the appeal of lights/camera/action overwhelmed strict separationism, and films were increasingly seen as delights of life like vines and fig trees (some of which produced rotten figs and deserved to wither).”
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