I've spoken before about some of the drivel on Christian Radio. I used to tune in for a chuckle or two on my drives home from work. Being self-employed now, I rarely listen to any radio, but sometimes I turn it on.
The FM dial will turn up four separate religious broadcasts in this area. I don't listen to AM, but I know there are, at the very least, half a dozen similar stations to be found on that band.
By the way, the link above isn't meant as a plug for them. It's meant for your perusal, so that you can see (and often hear, if you have RealAudio) what kind of drivel is being spouted by these people.
At "Amazing Facts," for example (all linked from above site), you can hear someone dance around a very serious subject: Is abortion okay if the mother's life is at risk? The ultimate answer is basically, "probably not."
At "Back to Genesis," you can read about their upcoming specials called "The Mystic Invasion," timed to coincide with Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in theaters. They'll evidently be discussing how "life in space" is an offshoot somehow of terrestrial evolution...
At "The Christian Home," you can learn that kids who have imaginary playmates may have tapped into something from Satan! They also lay blame on New Age religions for leading them on paths to hell.
At "Day of Discovery," you can hear the claim that no religious leader other than Jesus has ever risen from the dead. (I could name several, but they'd just insist that they were myths, not real, like Jesus...)
Over at "Focus on the Family," you can read James Dobson's idiocy regarding the school shootings in Littleton. "Our Judeo-Christian value system has been replaced by a post modern philosophy which states that there is no God and that absolute truth does not exist. As a result, many of our sons and daughters no longer recognize the difference between 'right' and 'wrong.'" He even quotes Pat Buchanan! "At Littleton, America got a glimpse of the last stop on that train to hell she boarded decades ago when she declared that God is dead, and that each of us is his or her own god who can make up the rules as we go along."
And it goes on and on. Idiotic statement after idiotic statement.
It's essentially a never-ending stream of religion, including outright lies and deceptions about many things. There is no balance, no group of freethought radio stations that point out the untruths and offer sane points of view on the same subjects.
Our radios, not to mention our televisions and computers, are under siege by the forces of non-reason. Popular media is not only inundated by these morons, but they seem to love them!
I don't like the fact that I ever laughed at these shows. The older I get, the more outraged I become at this kind of filth. It's not funny, anymore. It's insulting.
