About television news. One must never forget that t-v news is still entertainment.
Enterainment not in what one might see the word, as something that causes a fun feeling but as something that gives high ratings, = viewers = adveretisers = money for the network.
Where else would one get the "news" of what happens in the world or local communities?
I'm encouraged that this thread has brough out many points of view that are
extremely enlightening.
I've learned things from non Christians, non islamic, and Christian and muslims.
I don't wish to see this thread become anti islam or anti anything else.
It would be wonderful if it would become anti-viloence, murder, terror, suffering caused by people misled by a beilief system.
A story I remember from my youth. I'm 68 so my youth was a was many decades ago.
I lived with my uncle & aunt in S.W. Pa. in summes, on a small farm in very rural Pa. very close to the Wva. boarder. My uncle was a very religious fundamental, daily Bible reading, decon in a fundamental Chruch of Christ and a lay preacher.
He was devoutly Christian.
As an aside, when a young child I grew up in a very poor nieghborhood, mostly populated by black people. Those people helped my sister and I , fed us, helped my mother, and it was a long time until I realized there was a socially imposed difference between black and white people. I didn't know, in my innocent mind, that blacks and whites were supposed to be different in some way.
In Pa. where I spent summers with my uncle, was a crossroads store/gas station.
The general store was maybe a mile from Wva. In front of the store was a large sign that procliamed "n*gger don't let the sun set on you", meaning pass thru but don't you dare stay past sunset.
I aksed uncle why the sign was there. Uncle explained that n*ggers were cursed by god, worthless, lazy, stupid, thieving, murdering, sub humans.
WOW. That coming from an authority no less than my revered, religious, Bible reading, church preaching, fine, uncle!
I loved that man dearly and was confused by what he said. I was maybe 10 or 12 at the time.
Later he got his Bible and interpreted things in scripture that he and many others thought were codemnations of African Americans.
I came to not trust the Bible at all for many , many, years.
I tell this story so others can see how anyone's Bible can be interpreted to mean what they want it to mean.
Sad isn't it?
My uncle lived to be 84 years old and still convinced that he was off to heaven to be with God forever.
