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Edited on Tue May-03-05 10:18 AM by liberalmike27
The media has gone to work lately to try and religionize the society. Nothing works better than getting increasing numbers to believe in a possibly (I'm agnostic) fictitious God myth. It makes believing all of the other myths more palatable.
About Five Newsweek's in the last couple of months have been dedicated to the highly current news of religion. Some were the pope, but I mean exploration of religion in general. We have new shows like the one you mention, and Revelation, both examples of shows that push theocratic angles.
Anyway, there are other examples that you will see and have seen. It should occur to you that it is just part of the whole package of brainwashing, is pushing theocracy.
By the way, I believe in a lot of the tenets of religion, like most of you do. Killing, coveting, adultery, fornication, lying, and most of the things in the bible will generally cause trouble from devastating to mild. But just like we can logically see many of these things as bad, so could those who wrote the bible (many different parts from many different men, inspired by God, or not). Not firmly believing in mysticism does not in any way make you immoral, as we all know.
One other notable fact is that much money is going into building huge numbers of new churches. That too can not be looked at as merely coincidental, it is just another front dominated by the right-wing that they attack us with.
Both parties have very anti-religious things, certainly Republicans' attacks on the poor and lower middle class (mostly) are biblical sins. One can certainly mention this to any right-winger and tell them they can choose the sins, and either way there will be some sins in either party, so you might as well vote for the one that helps you and your family survive, usually the democratic party.
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