My local newspaper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, does a pretty good job covering religious matters. Today staff writer Paul Nussbaum has a good article about conservative Christian broadcasting, called Broadcasting to the choir. Here are my three favorite lines from the article:
- "Evangelical programs offer a refuge from sex, violence, profanity and liberals." (emphasis mine)
- "The most popular topic on the programs, [Quentin Schultz, professor of communications at Calvin College] said, is personal salvation, and the second-most popular is "whatever is a source of conflict in the general media.""
- ""Religious broadcasters talk about reaching beyond their tribe, but they use language that only their tribe understands," Schultze said. "It seems like the American media, secular and religious, are arenas for tribal bickering rather than trying to serve the public good."
Thank God there is a place on the TV dial where we can get a 24-hour liberal-free (assasination-advocating), personal salvation-absorbed, religious bickering broadcast. That’s just what we need.
(I wonder what Mr. Nussbaum would find if he did an article on the Lutheran church in the region? . . . )
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