It seems that Hollywood can’t help itself. Instead of trusting in the power of a good story, it turns again and again to gratuitous profanity – even when that’s exactly what the audience doesn’t want.

A few weeks ago, I told you that, in my opinion, Lifeway bookstores made a big mistake when it removed copies of “The Blind Side” from its shelves.

LifeWay Christian Bookstores will be pulling the film “The Blind Side” from …

While I knew that some, perhaps many, Christians would disagree with me, I was surprised at the attention the commentary received, both within and without the Christian world.

Now, I still think that the decision was a mistake. But a friend of mine has shown me there’s a bigger issue surrounding the story, and in fairness, I think it’s important that you hear about it.

That friend is Mark Joseph, a film and record producer in Hollywood. Writing in The Huffington Post, Mark gave us a behind-the-scenes view of how things work out there.

While Mark took issue with my criticism of Lifeway (after all, he wrote, Baptists should be “entitled to carry whatever product they want for whatever reason they want”), his main point went the heart of the Hollywood culture.

“Why,” he asked, “do corporations like Warner Brothers, which produced ‘The Blind Side,’ keep filling their movies with words that millions of American filmgoers say they don’t want to hear at the movies and don’t want their kids to hear and emulate?”

Good point.

Mark tells the story about the kind of thinking that influenced the film adaptation of C. S. Lewis’s “Chronicles of Narnia.” This is amazing.

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