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Sunday, October 24, 2004

Faith Under Fire 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 10/24/2004 04:53:00 PM

My infatuation with TV can be traced back to my VT roots. when i was younger and living here TV consisted of 3 channels. ABC, NBC, CBS. cable isn't an option here and satilite TV was still a few years off from becoming a reality for us so anything i wanted to see had to be normal broadcast television. on clear days we got PBS. i didn't get to see yankee gams on TV unless we drove to my grandparents house and watched the few ESPN broadcasts. This can explain my infatuation with the radio broadcasts.

When i moved to CT, and cable was common place, it was amazing. blew my mind. Now that i'm back here there are a few more channels on the broadcst spectrum. we get 2 pbs stations, FOX and PAX now over the broadcast airwaves. we have to turn the satelite off inorder to get the local stations so thats what i do when i need to see the ball games. the other night when the game was over, i flipped around the 7 stations now present and stumbled upon a new PAX show. Faith Under Fire. Think, crossfire meets FOX news meets bible as fact. it was interesting. two people arguing about whether jesus would have been pro-choice or for punishing the wicked abortionists. it tried to use facts and logic to deduct the answer but it was creepy because no one was argueing that jesus or religion were false. the whole show was based on the premise that the bible and jesus were hard facts. the next topic was gay marrige and both sides agreed that jesus would crush the wicked sinners who were gay. interesting.

the whole show was odd and creepy. what hit my like a rock in my mental haze was that PAX is a fairly big network who seems to have taken the stand of killing gays and abortionists. now, when fox news lies, people don't get hurt, we just end up with a total dueshbag for a president. when PAX pimps its bible and killing people, someone is going to get hurt. is this legal? this doesn't even follow the church which teaches peace and acceptance. turn the other cheek like jesus, not burn down you gay neighbors house, not murber that friendly doctor next door who preformed an abortion yesterday.

this world is fucking nuts.

one of hte PBS stations also carried the BBC world News. much better then anything you see here in the states. it was obvious that they took a pro kerry stance but the actual news part was so much better. there were actually good stories and un-biases coverage. real journalism. a few of the stories were actually upbeat too.

1 comments

upbeat news? wow. these days i generally stick with no news.

By  josh, at Sunday, October 24, 2004 11:33:00 PM  

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