The Christian Churches of Romania have adopted a common position of strong disapproval of the television programme “Big Brother”, which one of the country’s commercial TV channels began to transmit a few weeks ago. Opposition to the programme was endorsed by the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bucharest, the Greek-Catholic Eparchy of Cluj-Gherla and the Lutheran Evangelic, Anglican, Armenian and Reformed Churches. “The Christian Churches of Romania says the joint communiqué – disapprove of the diffusion through the mass media” of programmes that “promote violence, pornography and vulgarity”. “An eloquent example in this sense add the Churches is offered by the transmission Big Brother”. “Under the pretext of offering a programme of entertainment that aims to present an uncensored view of reality maintain the Churches this format represents both an immoral show in bad taste and an unhappy human experiment that attacks family values, especially through the moral destruction of youth”. According to the Churches, “through the confused message that it transmits, “Big Brother” proposes a false system of values, in which liberty becomes licentiousness, truth mendacity, and justice, goodness and beauty are either relativized or presented in a distorted manner”, to the detriment especially of the “young generations and society in general”.
