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In Reply to: Being able to enjoy the best of the best according to me posted by Goth88 on August 05, 2002 at 18:00:14:
Reading books was super discouraged in the Family, no matter how "wholesome or good" they are. In fact, Berg said it was better to read Playboy and drool over a woman' bosoms than it was to read books on psychology.
We couldn't even read books by other Christian authors unless it was Grandma Berg's "Streams that Never Run Dry." Why not? They would supposedly pervert us. The truth was Berg's crap would look so exclusivist, narrow-minded, authoritarian, and condemning beside normal Christian books.
We could even only read ONE Bible translation, something chugged out by the church of England 400 years ago! It was forbidden to read other translations. Verboten. Now, if that isn't straight out of some hillbilly backwoods thinking I don't know what is. It's all about control, brothers and sisters.
I like a good novel, a good movie and I SURE do not want to have to consult an official Family-approved list of movies before I pick one off the shelf. Screw the thought police! And I don't want to have to pow-wow the darned movie afterwards to see how it lines up with the Words of David.
I don't want my children to have to watch the same movie over again 50 times because it's only one of ten movies they can watch. I don't want them to watch Pinocchio with half the movie cut out of a bootlegged, edited copy because it's "not edifying".
I'll tell you what's not edifying: the suffrocating, claustophobic atmosphere of the Family.
