Jonathan Bock, founder of As1. Photo via catholicnewsagency.com
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A new organization is encouraging Christians to use their “demographic size and collective buying power” to influence the movies, music and television produced by the entertainment industry, reports Catholic News Agency.
“The goal of As1 is to restore the Church back to its historically traditionally role as patron of the arts,” said Jonathan Bock, founder of As1, which launched last week.
Bock told CNA in an Aug. 14 interview that there is a need for the Christians to be “in relationship” with the modern artistic community. Rather than painting and sculpture, the art of today entails the world of entertainment, primarily music, movies and television, he said.
There was a time when Christianity was “in partnership with great artists,” working with them to create great masterpieces, Bock observed.
Today, however, “we’ve virtually abandoned the arts,” he said, explaining that recent Christian generations have largely chosen to “walk away from pop culture and create our own subculture” in order to promote positive values and avoid the secular world’s corrupting influence. (Christian Telegraph.)
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