But each week, I've noticed your scripts always manage to include the message that God loves each of us and we are important to Him. In an entire lifetime of words, goals, and accomplishments, I'm not sure there's any contribution more important. Thanks to people like you and the messages of love, hope, and faith, there will never be enough darkness to put out the light. In prime-time TV as in life, it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. The reason God on prime time is a big deal is that most TV has not been friendly to Christian values for a long time.
Sex is often casual, lying is merely a joke, and every taboo is a target.
Of course, to make a story, you must have good guys, bad guys and some conflict. If we do, perhaps we're just seeing the modern version of storytelling that has been around from time immemorial, and there is nothing to get excited about. But if not, then perhaps we are seeing the values that define us undermined by the storytellers. Blaming TV's writers and producers is too easy an out. We have to look deeper.