Separation of Religion and Morals?

While I haven't looked at the ratings and the system from an unbiased side-line point of view, I have tried to provide good factual and objective evidence for what I'm saying. Not totally objective, I know, but in my opinion close.

But as the title might suggest, I am going to shift gears a little bit and address the problem with the ratings from a religious standpoint, as I consider myself a religious person, and one with an opinion. Or why even write about this topic?

Like I stated in my first post, I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (many would call me a Mormon), and am a strong follower of the faith. My belief (key word here being "my," meaning that I am not voicing the opinion of each and every member of my church) is that movies that are rated R are strictly off-limits. For some people this poses a problem, as they see many of the movies that receive this rating as very informational, educational and historically accurate. That's actually probably true, especially for movies like Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down, etc., or so I've heard.

These movies may be just the most informational and educational movies ever created, but for people with certain standards, it's hard to play referee for every single movie and decide if he or she should lower a standard "just this once" or "just cause it only has one bad scene." The truth is, it's practically impossible to do that, so people with these kinds of standards and values end up simply avoiding these movies altogether.

I think that the ratings should be revised for these reasons of standards. If the ratings were based specifically on the content of the movie, it would be much easier to say whether or not it would be worth seeing. That's what I think, and if this doesn't happen I think it will contribute to greater separation between religion and morals (random side note to end off with).