I still love the old westerns on TV. It’s always easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys. And the good guys always win in the end. Sheriff Matt Dillon always prevailed, to the delight of Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke. Hoss and Little Joe always got the upper hand when defending the Ponderosa on Bonanza. Chuck Connors couldn’t miss with that sawed off weapon on The Rifleman.
These days the messages being sent by many of the new TV shows are mixed and confusing. Not only do the good guys not always win, but often it’s difficult to tell which ones they are. But no matter how much our world is changing, right is still right and wrong is still wrong. Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and the Lone Ranger always understood that.
And we should too.
Amen Ken!