Hi Nancy,

I agree with you  - I was offended, too, but I think it's interesting that we're not hearing anything about the fact that families and children were sitting and watching the most violent "game" on television and that was okay, but sexy is an outrage. How can one be okay and the other one so terrible that the F.B.I. needs to do an investigation? Such hypocrisy! Wrong is wrong - Sin is sin... Wonder if they're investigating the guy who streaked across the field?

Reading your email, listening to a talk show about how the FCC should react to this, and reading a timely letter from a radio evangelist, got me thinking much deeper about this.

I do believe sports can be a controlled outlet for agression. Unlike boxing, a football player is somewhat protected by the rules of the game and the padding. But the culture that surrounds sports can spill out of the game into other forms of aggression.

Football and other sports have a sexual culture. All through the season, there are cheerleaders on the side with skimpy outfits and the commercials. Well, I am sure we have seen enough beer commercials that are using sex to sell.

The half-time show was just an open view of the sexual demeaning of women that has always been there - right down to forceful stripping of Janet Jackson's clothing. The context of the song was sexual violence. The action was demonstrating the start of rape or attempted rape. The show was just showing the culture as it is, the culture that some of us try to ignore, (me included.) But now I no longer can.

The talk show referred to a "cultural war" that is going on in the United States. I am sure I have heard the term before. But now it is glaring me in the face. We are at war. I have always been at battle with my own personal temptations and Satan. But now I see human faces in this battle clearly and they are attacking me and all Christians.

Ron Dart, a radio evangelist, said the central political issue being fought today "is whether we will be a nation under God, or whether we will become a godless nation."

I believe we all, as Christians, are in for some nasty battles. We need to examine our lives and look for, "Such hypocrisy! Wrong is wrong - Sin is sin.." as our reader so aptly put it.

We will need to  "...be ye therefore wise as serpents and as harmless as doves." (Matthew 10:16 King James version)

I am not sure how each battle will go, or when the war will end, but I do know who is victorious in the end.

"Then he told me, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, because the time is near. Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy."

    "Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End."" Revelation 22:10-13