ok i've decided — after soul searching and observing my and
other's reactions
to these religious blog news on CNN learning more about religion from this alone and about the mideast than from anywhere else in my USA educated life i need
to be more tolerant of
others having religious based governments THAT is what is confusing me — that religion are governments are not seperated that is hard for much of USA population
to understand perhaps it is for me i think you would have
to actually live in a society like the mideast
to truly understand it i mean — actually be part of the society the religious part is truly offputting — since most in USA seperate church and state like — church is for faith and imagination and celebration and family and community involvement and state is for protection and
education and health and infrastructure, etc., for all it is hard
to be serious about religion — when the serious
side of society is state it is hard
to see religion being the serious
side of enforcement — and the state enforcing the faith based
side of society egad — doesn't god
get lost in all that?
In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do
to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action
to get stations
to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media
education courses in the schools and churches
to create media literacy; organize community groups
to develop programs relating
to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial
side - band channels; employ stockholder action and
other economic measures.