Today is Wednesday, September the 7th, 2022.

Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast.

Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins.

The Walt Disney Company, through its FXX network, is releasing an animated sitcom series called Little Demon, which a film industry

website describes this way. After being impregnated by the devil, a reluctant mother and her

antichrist daughter attempt to live an ordinary life in Delaware. According to the organization

One Million Moms, the show carries graphic

violence and nudity and makes light of hell and the dangers of the demonic realm. One

Million Moms adds that the series is introducing viewers, including children who might stumble

across the series to a world of demons, witches, and sorcery.

Along with the demonic content of the series, the minds of younger viewers will be inundated

with secular worldviews that reflect the current culture.

One of the reasons I pay attention to popular culture is that for a cultural offering to be

popular, it must by definition have an audience.

It therefore reflects and represents the values and worldview of a significant segment of our society.

For example, we learn something important about the hopes and fears of society

by learning that the three most popular films of 2022 so far are

Top Gun Maverick, where Americans defeat Iranians, Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,

featuring superheroes, sorcerers, and sorceresses, and Jurassic World Dominion,

where humans and dinosaurs defeat genetically engineered locusts.

Aristotle believed that art performs a cathartic function.

What we see enacted on the stage or screen expresses and purges our fears, regrets, and pain.

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