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Another Temptation

But mark this:  There will be terrible times in the last days.  People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God – having a form of godliness but denying its power.  Have nothing to do with them.  (2 Timothy 3:1-5) I don’t know whether we’re living in the “last days” or not, but shows like Fox’s “Temptation Island” certainly lead me to believe we’re not that far away.  Fox first raised my ire about a year ago with “Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?”  They brought together a man and woman in “holy” matrimony, after the groom whittled out the rest of the competition through the course of a two-hour episode.  Now they’re back, and worse than ever with “Temptation Island.”  The concept this time is to shamelessly try to ruin the r