The problem now adays is that they've switched to digital TV and TV guide is now obsolete. It's even more convenient for the zombies to see what's on TV without even touching any reading material. So that puts them even further away from the Bible.
Indeed the level of deceit in these last days is very high.
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Let me understand this: TiVo and the on-screen guides are making people stop reading TV Guide, and this in turn is getting people out of the habit of reading, which in turn causes them to stop reading the Bible? Wow. Talk about a bizarre causal chain!
Can I try one?: Cell phones make it so no one has to sit next to the phone any more. This gets people out of the habit of sitting in one place; therefore, they don't sit and read their Bibles anymore.
Anyone else?
Hey I'll give it a shot too.
Laser eye surgery and contacts get people out of the habit of wearing glasses. We all know people who wear glasses are bookworms and have more opportunity to read the Bible, whereas people without them go out and have great social lives (which inevitably result in sin). Therefore, Laser eye surgery and contacts prevent people from reading the Bible and actually lead down a path of sin.
But in order to see what's on in a few days with those on-screen tv listings, you have to press your little arrow button a hundred times to move over, whereas with TV Guide, you can just flip to the appropriate page. Hah! How do you respond to THAT!?
I don't even watch TV any more. Occasionally I'll watch the NBC Nightly News while eating dinner. I'd like to watch Real Time with Bill Maher, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and the Daily Show, but I don't have cable.
So mostly I read blogs, I play games, I write music, and I make snarky comments on stupid Fundie quotes.
"Indeed the level of deceit in these last days is very high."
Given the fundie dominance in the media, I agree.
While I find your concern for litteracy commendable, I fail to see how TV guides (on paper or on screen) constitute a major vector of said litteracy. And please tell me that you are aware that on-screen TV guides still involve some reading...
On a side note, does someone know if Driver opposes Harry Potter?
If we dind't want zombies, the TV shouldn't exist, to begin with. And the resistant manifesto, for that matter.
Of course, it's not as if fundies read any literature anyway. They just memorize a dozen verses from the Bible, and the back-cover summary of Hovind's book.
Wasn't it someone on TRM that advocated book-burnings recently?
Redhunter: "So the TV-Guide is second only to the bible?"
In the Bible Belt, yes. (At least, according to my experience.)
Sorry to say, I'm with Driver here. I remember my childhood sundays, spent in church; a heavyset lady in a flowery dress reading from Acts- a red-faced preacher would follow her and read us "Cheers and Jeers." Good times, good times.
I strongly advocate reading, but to claim that TV kills off the Bible (or for that matter any other religious text) is a far stretch. Religious programming exists in certain areas as far as I know. As much as TV menacing literacy can be considered a contemporary cause for concern, it has been used for religious purposes as well, albeit nothing like consulting the actual text. OP's argument, in this sense, is unsound.
P.S: I can be considered irreligious, and I don't watch TV. I have better things to do, like playing the piano, reading and taking walks.
"The problem now adays is that they've switched to digital TV and TV guide is now obsolete. It's even more convenient for the zombies to see what's on TV without even touching any reading material. So that puts them even further away from the Bible."
I'm sorry, but I can't hear you over the sounds of Jeremy Clarkson shouting 'POWERRRRRRR!', James May saying 'Oh, Cock!', and Richard 'Hamster' Hammond squeaking about the (not)new 911 Turbo by (the laziest designers... in the world! [/Jezza]) Porsche, on an edition of "Top Gear" shown on the [i]digital[/i] TV channel 'Dave'.
Some say, that he only uses cars made in Spain. And that de Seat is too much for him, thus he has to use a child-style booster. All we know is... he's called Driver! [/The Stig] X3
'TV Guide is obsolete'? The Radio Times is still published every week, didn't you know?! Stupid Americentric cunt...! And didn't you know II? Most digital TV devices (my HDTV has one built in; also the software for my computer's USB digital tuner device) has a full week's TV schedule display - for all it's channels - encoded into the signal it receives.
Luddite much, Driver? Still, the US has yet to enter the 21st Century, with it still relying on [i]analogue[/i] medium wave & FM radio - despite we in the UK with [i]Digital[/i] Audio Broadcasting well established* here, so you still have your precious [i]religious[/i] stations to listen to, I guess.
*- A few years ago, analogue TV signals were shut down permanently here. In a few years time, analogue radio will be permanently shut down, therefore people will have no choice but to use DAB.
Ultrafundamentalist control freakism. Just admit that you hate all sources of information that aren't you. You claim that it's about reading, but you also want to restrict what people can read. Then if peope really read the Bible, you still complain if it's not your favorite version and not using your cult's own interpretative literature. Because someone might actually learn things in it that you don't like, or discover contradictions, or study the development of the compilation, put the verses in their proper context. Oh noes!
A more valid concern is that with digital services, they now know precisely what you're listening to and when. It was more difficult to do that kind of survey with analog broadcast and it wasn't instant live data.
Another potential concern is the equipment, its capabilities and vulnerabilities, what corporations do with the data they provide, etc. For instance, some of that equipment can listen and record you today. The same with your mobile devices, that can additionally track your displacements.
But most importantly, do you sleep with your beard outside or inside the covers?? You could also avoid the distraction of web spamming in favor of more Bible reading yourself, no?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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