As I'm sure you all know, being rivoted to your TVs last night to watch the start of yet another season, last night was the first night of American Idol. Whooppee!!

NOT! There are a few things in life that truly amaze me. One of those is that American Idol has started yet another season. I just can't see the appeal of this show. It was ok for one, maybe two seasons, but its like a boomerang, it just keeps coming back.

If you had to predict, how many more years do you think the show will run?

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Bob Howes
Framingham, MA

A reoccurring thought:

Rev 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

We have this sort of thing over here on shows like the X-Factor. I can't stand them.

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Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
Member of Dromara Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland (Covenanter)

it definitely bombed last night.

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~Keon Garraway~ Brooklyn, NY Member of Franklin Square OPC

Love for God demonstrated by the love for our children in giving them a God centered education is the only hope for our country. by David Morrow
Pslam 71:20 [Thou], which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

The show itself is a study in human depravity as well as the need most all people have in wanting to be "somebody." It is scary, funny the amount of deluded personalities that are out there, what they will subject themselves to for their 45 seconds of "fame."

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~ Steven Bradford ~
Member Covenant Presbyterian, Chattanooga, TN

"Tōō" as in too long

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Soli Deo Gloria

John Schultz
Member, Riveroaks Reformed Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Germantown, TN

"The reason why we worship God in a slight way is because we do not see God in His glory"
Jeremiah Burroughs

The only thing funny about the show are the try outs!!!!!!!!
It is so funny that you started this thread for I just read that the next season just began, and I was thinking, ALREADY!!! Don't they ever get a break!?!? They're not even in the military. NOT that I watch the show, I don't even have cable....seriously.

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Meghan Thomas
Central Baptist Church
Okinawa, Japan
Mother of Dustin 5, Lily 3, Annie 1

I'm going to say ~3 years or so.

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Rae W. | Elder @ Grace Central Presbyterian Church | Columbus, OH
not another blog, v2.0

As long as America is guilty of national sins (pornography, abortion, etc.) then we will suffer the wrath of God in the form of American Idol, Hillary and Barack, Paris, Brittany, other 'reality' shows and Faux News. Turn on the TV and choose your punishment.

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Bob Vigneault (Bawb Vēēn-yo)
I just know there's got to be a pony in here somewhere!

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~James Helbert~, Wytheville, VA
Providence Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCUS
TheBibleAlone.com / The Edinburgh Inn
"Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?” - Zechariah 3:2

I can't even stand to watch the previews of the show..and this isn't the only one..most all the reality TV shows make my skin crawl.

I was flipping through channels the other day and came across "Real Housewives" or something like that..it made me sad for them and the kids. They were asking the son, who is in his 20's, what he looks for in a woman, and he was like, "short term, I'm looking for that blonde, big busted, stripper looking girl" and they asked, "you wouldn't want that long term?" He said "No, I don't think I'd like it long term." then they put the camera on his mom..and that is exactly what she looked like..as she was dancing around the bar, and within a few minutes the camera shows her husband heading out to the dance floor with another woman, and goes back to the wife watching this other woman dancing on her husband the way she was dancing on other men..and she comments, "Oh, I'm not jealous of these other women" then heads over towards her husband and her words speak to her heart..that it really does bother her to see her husband dancing w/ other women and having other women dancing on him. "What do you think your doing dancing with these other women like this?" and she started dancing up on him and laid a lip lock on him as if to to 'show' this other woman he's taken.

And it's like the son knew deep down in his heart, that his mom's actions were sinful, and wouldn't want that in a wife fro himself, as her need for attention and love was so great that he could never fully meet that need.

All of it really showed that deep hole in their hearts that only Christ can fill..

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Bobbi Clark
Covenant Member
Pinewood Pres. (PCA) Middleburg

When I kept Silent, My bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. Psalm 32:3

Don't forget Rudy Guiliani, Mitt Romney, and McCain.

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Stephen Welch
PCA Teaching Elder
Nova Scotia :cheers:

By the grace of God I have NEVER seen a single episode of the show!

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Dennis E. McFadden, Ex Mainline Baptist (in Remission)
Atherton Baptist Homes, CEO
First Baptist Church of Alhambra, Member, Transformation Ministries (CA)

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American Idol? Isn't that the pop tripe machine that spewed out the ilk of Kelly Clarkson and other completely irrellevant "artists" (so called)?

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Donald Jacobs
Marysville. WA
Cascade Church (CRCNA)

Cum vero infirmor tunc potens sum.

-I like Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, and Jordin Sparks.

-90% of those trying out know they aren't any good and are just being silly

-The 10% that aren't any good and don't know it need to be told

-Watching this show with our girls leads to some great conversation about life, people, and sometimes God

I even like Fox News! What others news media is better than Fox, I mean seriously? No other TV, or new papers news is better, not even close.

Maybe I'm not as Holy as some of you?

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Adam Leavelle
Westminster OPC
Roaring Spring Pa.

http://www.myspace.com/aleavelle
"Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all"

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Ouch, ouch, ouch Adam! You pulled out the 'not as Holy as you' stone and tossed it. I haven't had that thrown at me in years. Yipes! I'm sorry man, I should have warmed up my hands before I milked your sacred cow. Stand down big fella!

Watch if you must American Idol, I'm fine with that (though I suggest you go to your doctor for regular Supplemental Intelligence injections to replace what you've lost.) It's entertainment.... I guess (100 years ago we used to run retiring steam engines into each other for amazing crashes, that was called entertainment. Some people even spoke about God when they saw it.) but don't tell me Faux News is better than the Enquirer or the Star, no sir! (Who do you think is stealing from whom?)

I pray you ARE holier than me but put those big guns away. I'll try not to pick on American Idolatry again. Oooops, I'm hopeless Adam, I'm a victim of my own discernment. Hugs and kisses.

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Bob Vigneault (Bawb Vēēn-yo)
I just know there's got to be a pony in here somewhere!

The Heartbeat of Heaven (blog) MySpace (Music), MySpace (Personal)
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Me too.

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Ivan Schoen, Pastor * Maranatha Baptist Church * Poplar Grove, Illinois USA www.maranatha-sbc.org/
"Mankind is divided into two sorts: such as live according to man, and such as live according to God. These we call the two cities...The Heavenly City outshines Rome. There, instead of victory, is truth" — Augustine of Hippo

Well I wasted 2 hrs of my life last night watching. I think a wise person might wait till they get down to about 10 or fewer people if they want to watch it at all. I think my problem with it is I can almost quote every thing that the three judges are about to say before they say it. They have become cliche.

And I DO watch Fox but I am over thinking they are unbiased.

I always try to see what the enemy is thinking so I watch some CNN and some MSNBC too.

All of that is making me very unholy I am afraid.

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Richard H. King
Providence PCA
Lubbock, Texas
"No matter how far a man goes, he eventually finds out God's already there." John Wayne - the last line in "Chisum"

True the try outs are funny, I mean, watching their dreams get destroyed......ooops! Did I type that "aloud!"

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~etexas~

Bob, this thread was just going on and on about how obvious it was that AI is terrible seemingly suggesting that those who watch it are in the very least "missing the boat" or at worst "poor Christians". You can't deny that it's at least "snobby" in it's rhetoric.

So I sort of posted back in like manner with the "Holy" comment. What I'm saying/asking is a flat out question, "do you (or whom ever) believe that it's un-Christian to watch AI?" It certainly seems like it reading this thread.

Even though that comment sort of annoys me, are you saying crashing trains into each other is also sinful in some way? This all reads to me like the secular "pop music snob" message forums out there that spend countless hours slamming AI because the music isn't "cool enough" except here we can throw sinful into the mix of the discussion as well.

What about the Christians who try out or (GASP) get on the show? What about the Christian girl who won the whole thing last year? Are her parents evil doers who contributed to her backsliding?

Not liking the show is fine, pointing out it's faults is acceptable, but the attitude that this show is "teh evilll" is hard to swallow when we can praise fine drink and tobacco (in moderation of course) or other TV shows and movies (mature or "R" rated) and heavy metal music and hair bands.

If all I did was make a few others here who may watch the show feel a little better, then that's good enough for me. You aren't a lesser Christian if you watch this show and if that isn't what everyone was implying in this thread you're going to need to trust me that it is exactly how it was all coming across.

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Adam Leavelle
Westminster OPC
Roaring Spring Pa.

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"Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all"

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I've had many a dream destroyed and I've survived. I've had them destroyed by people that I thought supported me before hand! They weren't destroyed by people that I saw do the exact same thing to others on live TV six years running.

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Adam Leavelle
Westminster OPC
Roaring Spring Pa.

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"Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all"

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I wouldn't say that bro. Frankly, you're probably a much better man than I am.

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Donald Jacobs
Marysville. WA
Cascade Church (CRCNA)

Cum vero infirmor tunc potens sum.