Rated X: The moral case against TV

By Mary Lewis Coakley

No Synopsis Available.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087000400X
• ISBN13: 9780870004001
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Arlington House
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a laugh-riot

Living in New York City, it's difficult to counterpoint one's liberal views with the kind of scathing right-wing fanaticism that one needs in small doses. This book provided such contrast.In her spastically organized book, with subject headings like "War on the Unborn," "Potshots on the Bible," and "Onward, Christian Soldiers!," Coakley discusses just how filthy television now (1977) is (was). She hilariously condemns television's portrayal of everything from Satanism (?), homosexuality, contraception, abortion, sex, violence, and the ERA (the ERA!!), to attacks on marriage and religion (Catholicism, mainly). She sums up one section by saying, "The relativism and collectivism running through TV are insidiously undermining all religion, as well as all morality based on objective truth and fixed principles" (99). (By "objective truth," she means belief in an objective God who objectively lives in Heaven and periodically sends objective prophets to objectively deliver his objective Word, but only to Christians, because only they are objective enough to understand it.) She gives examples from so many different shows in the 1976-77 season I thought she'd made it her Christian duty to sit and watch TV day and night for a year.Needless to say, this is funny, funny stuff. I learned a little about television in the 1970s, and a lot about outmoded Christian values. Thanks, Mary Lewis Coakley!