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Another angle: Someone who knows a thing or two won't ever deny the changes over the decades that came with television, movies etc and how it morally affected and altered people since the 60s when the TV began to widely enter private households (acting, in a much smaller scale than today, negatively influenced people in fact for thousands of years). There's a clear connection and parallel between television and how things went south since its introduction. An ever increasing depravity among the people peaking in what we've got today.
I am deeply convinced that the TV is one of the strongest and most dangerous tools of the devil since the last century, to corrupt/manipulate/control the masses. Maybe even his strongest tool to date.
On a sidenote, I am from Germany and picrelated is how many, many sattelite dishes here have been labeled as long as they exist. In german 'satellite system' means 'Satelliten Anlage', so I guess 'SatAn' is meant to be short for it. What an appropriate, little hint isn't it?
Also if you look into history, acting in form of theatrical performances is very old ofc. Did you know, that the early generations of christians in the first centuries also considered play-acting as evil and taught accordingly? I can't cite anything right now but I read about it a few years ago. In fact they taught that a christian can do any work but they named a few (3 or 4 I think) professions that they considered totally contradictory with serving Christ. Unfortunately I forgot what it was but acting was definately one of them! Don't you think they had good reasons for their view?
Btw, you surely know the biblical term of idolatry. It's a very critical thing often mentioned as the exact opposite of serving God, serving an idol. This can be a graven image, as it was often in the old testament but also any other object of a man's adoration or worship. Of course also a person! Anything/anyone basically that/who attracts a kind of attention, awe, reverance, even worship that rightfully belongs to God! In our time, nothing produces more idols/icons than the media, TV esp. Who grows up without having at least one kind of an idol, if it's an actor, a singer/musician or whatever? A 'Star'! And when you observe how literally 'obsessed', especially but not only, young people often become, how fanatic and hysterical they get, you can sense that there is way more to it than the eye can see! That there is definately a spiritual side to it, that is very dangerous.
I mean just think about it: We put a thing on our roofs that says 'Satan', so through a medium (!), the Tv, our idol can be delivered to be worshipped by us. Sounds good, doesn't it?
Finally, why in the world should a true follower of Christ get involved with all this and become/remain an actor and participate in this corruption? For the fame, his ego?? Oh it's just a job one might say. So you 'just' do it for money? But is it really only a job? Who do you sell yourself to? Who and what purpose do you really serve when 'make-believe'? Spiritually there is so much more to it. The whole thing is NOT neutral!
There is so much more that could be said but I hope I was able to at least shed a little light onto it from my understanding.
I'm totally sure, nothing about acting is good or even neutral. Neither for the actor nor the viewer. (It has not directly to do with acting and I won't get into this now but if interested, read up on the fact that the brain enters a hypnosis-like state when watching TV, which is definately nothing a christian does want.)
It's all fake, a lie, deception, a pretentious make-believing ACT! Very much evil but little to nothing good comes from this…
Sorry, I did not intend to write such a long post when I started :) Anyway, I hope it might have been a little bit helpful.