Reference: Biblical Values Line
Rick Retro’s Reference Rundown #17: Viewpoint Block, Biblical Values Line
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Following the body of the review, the Footer Block and the Content Block is the Viewpoint Block, where I analyze the viewpoint of the work reviewed.
The third line of the Viewpoint Block is the Biblical Values Line.
The Biblical Values Line might look like one of these examples:
✡️ +4 ➕✡️✡️✡️🌗🌗😠💎🤍🤍🤍
✡️ +1 ➕🌗😠😊🤍🤍 ➖🌓🌓🫢
✡️ +3 ➕🌗🌗😠😠😠💎🤍🤍 ➖🤬🤬
✡️ -3 ➖🤬🤬🤬💣🌓🫢🫢
✡️ Biblical Values are rated from +4 to -4
This rating measures whether the viewpoint of the work is favorable or unfavorable towards God, the Bible, Judaism, and Old Testament values, such as objective truth, Biblical morality, right and wrong, justice and punishment.
+4: Very Strongly Favorable
+3: Strongly Favorable
+2: Moderately Favorable
+1: Slightly Favorable
+0: There are no positive or negative biases shown against Biblical values or mixed messages cancel each other out. Or the viewpoint of the work about Biblical values is not discernible or clear.
-0: The viewpoint of the work is not Biblical, but the work has no anti-Biblical agenda. It assumes you already agree with its non-Biblical viewpoint and seeks to entertain without pushing its viewpoint or non-Biblical agenda.
-1: Slightly Unfavorable
-2: Moderately Unfavorable
-3: Heavily Unfavorable
-4: Extremely Unfavorable
The Biblical Values rating can be followed by emojis that indicate positive or negative messages put forth in the work that impact the rating.
An emoji can be used up to three times indicating a light, moderate or heavy negative impact on the ratings. An emoji in parentheses indicates a positive or negative bias clearly held by the work, but perhaps only referenced in passing, not promoted. In these cases, the work is typically assuming you share similar values, while being more focused on entertaining you than persuading you. (Many works also assume you share their values while still promoting or even glorifying those values. In such a case the emoji will not be in parentheses.)
➕Positive Explanatory Emojis
✡️ Positive portrayals of God, the Bible, and/or Judaism
🌗 Correctly identifies right and wrong in agreement with Biblical morality, advocates for self-control
😠 Pro-punishment of crime, righteous violence acceptable to put an end to evil behavior
😊 Promotes sexual self-control, celebrates sex only in traditional marriage
💎 Promotes charitable and responsible use of wealth, disapproves of greed, grift
🤍 Promotes honesty, integrity, self-sacrifice for others, truth is objective
➖Negative Explanatory Emojis
🤬 Profanity/blasphemy (disrespects God) or promotes or glorifies obscene language
💣 Anti-Biblical, antisemitism (disrespects God’s Word and/or Judaism)
🌓 Incorrectly identifies right and wrong in disagreement with Biblical morality
🚨 Anti-punishment of crime, promotes or glorifies crime, criminal violence
🫢 Promotes or glorifies sexual immorality, promiscuity, adultery, sexual perversion
🤑 Promotes or glorifies greed, grift, gambling, covetousness, theft, blackmail
🖤 Promotes or glorifies selfishness, lying, deception, dishonesty to achieve personal goals, truth is subjective
This line may be followed by a line of explanation to include or clarify info not easily explained by the emojis. More significant discussion may be included in the body of the review.
Originally posted to text group 2025-01-27
Last updated 2025-02-21
Retro Reviews Reference Pages:
Reference Overview
Header Block:
Primary Information Line
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Secondary Information Line
Franchise/Series Lines
Opinion Block:
Grade Line
Entertainment Quality Line
Dark Whimsy Line
POPCAP Line
Left-Right Line
Footer Block:
Review Lines
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Content Block:
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Viewpoint Block:
My View Line
Christian Values Line
Biblical Values Line
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