Just wanted to respond to a few of Pwcca's points.
Alright, first off, I don't own a television. I rather like not owning one. I also like telling people that I don't own one. It's a useful tool but most of what is broadcast is useless, compounded further with the fact that when one watches television, it is proven that our brain waves slow down, bordering on theta. So if you want to tell anyone that TVs are great brainwashing tools, you're preaching to the choir on this one
Good to hear and I agree.
I have a couple TV's but they get more use by watching educational and historic videos than the garbage that gets broadcast.
And most of the time, they're broadcasting all this Jesus hocus pocus, trying to prove that Noah's arc really existed and how some blanket has the imprint of Jesus' face and so on. The only real propoganda I've seen from these channels is Christian propoganda. A lot of times it appears they show both sides, skeptics and believers alike, but they're still definitely selling Christianity.
There's no way you can demonize the Discovery Channel by saying it's anti-Christian when, on the contrary, it's brimming with Christian persuasion.
I could not disagree with you more on this point, however, I clearly understand why you would have this view. Let me explain.
Have you ever had a comment said to you in public that you knew was meant a certain way but meant something completely different to on-listeners?
This is exactly how the scripts are written for these Discovery Channel programs:
(1) They appeal to shallow Christians: They believe that the Channel is doing "Christianity" some good.
(2) They disprove or show supposed "faults" in the Bible to non-Christians. This is where the real misrepresentation takes place.
(3) They repulse educated Christians, which is a relatively small group.
The scripts for these programs are written with a cleverness that is not imaginable by most people. They are written with three specific audiences in mind, and only those in group 3 above can recognize this.
Since I see through the lies and deception that they promote, I could write a short book on the methods used, but I'll spare both of us for now.
Nevertheless, I do see why you see it this way and why you feel the way you do. The programs personally make me angry but for a different reason; I see through the deception.
This same kind of double-writing is used in many TV programs, like ER, and also promotes the same type of twisted, deceptive message.
Again, I'm tempted to write on but I'll stop for now.
Just for the sake of argument, even if they were trying to promote evolution, so what? Is that any different than trying to promote Christianity?
Yes, it's completely different. Here's why.
Evolution is based on junk science and is continually promoted "scientifically" through the control of grant money. It's exactly the same as in the textbooks and in museum displays. Outdated and blatantly inaccurate information continue to be promoted as fact long after we know it is not.
Here's a great lesson on junk science:
Junk Science: Global Warming Myth BustedIf the Bible were spoken about on mass media in truth, and if all of the incredible information it contains were openly spoken about concerning the Bible's relation to:
(1) prophecy (foretelling the future),
(2) history (how meticulously it was assembled and preserved and translated),
(3) archeology (it predicted discoveries and confirmed new various new findings),
(4) gematria (its internal numbers reveal deeper truths, for example, bad people have 13 as a factor in their name in Hebrew), and
(5) certain other amazing correlations (153 fish caught is the same number of people healed in all 4 gospels
See WP)
then the force of freedom and liberation from oppression that originally formed the U.S. would seep throughout the whole world, but of course, freedom is not beneficial to the cause of the powers-that-be.
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."—Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
(Think about this:How can someone falsely believe they are free?)
You would think that all this communication technology and information distribution technology we have to day could be used to bring people together, show that most illnesses can be eliminated with alternative methods, inspire personal excellence, etc., but instead, it is in the hands of a bunch of power-hungry liars who have no higher interest than to oppress, deceive, and sicken people for their own wealth and control.
"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders."—Samuel Adams
Trying to promote anything doesn't mean they're global conspirators out to get us. Maybe some people are using evolution as some sort of conspiracy, but guess what? So has Christianity and a whole heck of a lot of other people. That doesn't mean evolution, itself, is flawed, nor Christianity for that matter.
I agree, but I don't use what is broadcast to determine if there is a conspiracy or not.
The best to to unmistakably uncover the tips of the grand conspiracy is to study law. Great places to start are U.S. law in 1913 and 1930 and 1933; Trading with the Enemies Act, War Powers Act, The Federal Reserve Act, EO #11110... etc.
Christianity has been used to hurt and oppress people; no doubt about it, but it was not used for this purpose by Christians.
The powers-that-be will use any tool at their disposal to achieve their complete control, dominance, and wealth. Humans are nothing to them.
The Bible teaches that humans are precious in the sight of God but it also teaches that if you continually do harmful things to fellow humans, God may punish you for the greater good, that is, to get you to stop.
I once asked my sister, an evolutionist: What would you do with a person who produces, promotes and knowingly administers a toxin to humans and continues to do it while lying and claiming that it is for human benefit—a toxin that causes depression, suicide, numerous physical ailments, and death in some—and they did this for their own financial profit?
