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Its leaders know how television can be used to seduce and encourage us to walk away from dwindling, less exciting collectives that protect and nurture us. The totalitarian creed of the Religious Right has found in television the perfect medium. The televangelists have built their movement on these commercial precepts. It, too, promises to life us up and thrill us. It, too, promises to protect and serve us. Its rapid frames and movements, its constant use of emotional images, its sudden shifts from one theme to an unrelated theme, banish logic and reason with dizzying perplexity. Television discourages real communication. Television lends itself perfectly to this world of signs and wonders, to the narcissism of national and religious self-exaltation.

The homogenized empty chatter on the airwaves, the banal amusement and clichés, the bizarre doublespeak endlessly repeated on cable news channels and the huge spectacles in sports stadiums have replaced America’s political, social and moral life, indeed replaced community itself. Television, the movement’s primary medium, allows viewers to preoccupy themselves with context-free information. It expands the void, the mindlessness that makes the magic, mythology, and irrationality of the Christian Right palatable.

The triviality of American popular culture, its emptiness and gossip, accelerates this destruction of critical thought. Remove every hindrance from the divinely ordained intimacy and unity You intend for our relationship. Break any unhealthy patterns in our relationship, guard our thoughts and words, and fill us with new levels of passion and zeal for your calling upon us as a couple. Cause my relationships to work in perfect harmony with You today. No evil shall come near to my dwelling place or my marriage. Strengthen the hedge of protection around my marriage and family and whisper peace into my relationships, ministry, workplace, and business.

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MATTHEW 18:19 Imagine for a moment the unlimited power of a husband and wife who walk constantly in agreement-the power of a mother and father united in the raising of children who understand the power of relationships, are saturated in wisdom, and are full of faith! How different would our world be today if there were more couples like this? How different would the church be? How different would our communities be? How different would our nations be? Father, Your Word says one person can put a thousand to flight and two can chase off ten thousand. THE POWER OF TWO If two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.