Chuck Colson tells about one prisoner he met who had been on death row for
fifteen years. His name was John Irving.
John was allowed out of his cell
for only one hour a day. The rest of the time he was studying to become a
minister—preparing to serve God.
Noticing that John had nothing in his
cell but a few books, Colson offered to give him a TV.
"Thanks," John
said, "but no thanks. You can waste an awful lot of time with those
things."
Can you imagine wasting time on death row?
Colson goes on
to say, "The real evils of the entertainment industry are not the violence and
profanity—offensive though they are. No, it's the banality: the sheer waste of
time. When we turn the TV on, we turn our minds off; studies have shown that the
analytical areas of the brain nearly shut down during extended TV viewing."
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