Looking around the various channels on Freeview last night, there are some that would appear blank, but if you wait about 30 seconds they burst into life with some pretty weird content. In the main they seem to go under Revelation TV, and are either bible thumping preachers or some naive attempt at dramas with moral messages and the like.
Its like a time warp back to USA radio of the 50s but with more relevant scenarios.
Now I have no problem with belief in anything, but these make me feel uncomfortable in the way they seem to assume this one true way and its ours narrative.
Brian
Looking around the various channels on Freeview last night, there are some that would appear blank, but if you wait about 30 seconds they burst into life with some pretty weird content. In the main they seem to go under Revelation TV, and are either bible thumping preachers or some naive
attempt at dramas with moral messages and the like.
Its like a time warp back to USA radio of the 50s but with more relevant scenarios.
Now I have no problem with belief in anything, but these make me feel uncomfortable in the way they seem to assume this one true way and its
ours narrative.
These are all streamed channels in the 250 - 300 range. I guess most if
not all the evangelistic ones are US-based. The delay is for the streamed service to appear, and can be anything from 5 - 30 seconds. Then there are the channels which are front-ends for multiple streamed services (such as VisionTV on 264). With my Panasonic, the multiple-streamed ones do at
least respond to the "info" button on the remote to let you know what TV channel you are watching. With the religious ones, they don't - press the info button and nothing happens.
Do any of them have any sort of audio explanation of what they are to help you out?
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Jeff
On 25/04/2023 09:28, Brian Gaff wrote:
Looking around the various channels on Freeview last night, there are
some
that would appear blank, but if you wait about 30 seconds they burst into
life with some pretty weird content. In the main they seem to go under
Revelation TV, and are either bible thumping preachers or some naive
attempt
at dramas with moral messages and the like.
Its like a time warp back to USA radio of the 50s but with more
relevant
scenarios.
Now I have no problem with belief in anything, but these make me feel
uncomfortable in the way they seem to assume this one true way and its
ours
narrative.
Brian
--
Jeff
"Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote in message news:u282v0$pu48$1@dont-email.me...
Looking around the various channels on Freeview last night, there are
some that would appear blank, but if you wait about 30 seconds they burst
into life with some pretty weird content. In the main they seem to go
under Revelation TV, and are either bible thumping preachers or some
naive attempt at dramas with moral messages and the like.
Its like a time warp back to USA radio of the 50s but with more relevant
scenarios.
Now I have no problem with belief in anything, but these make me feel
uncomfortable in the way they seem to assume this one true way and its
ours narrative.
As a non-believer, I view all religions with intrigue, curiosity and
slight bewilderment. Some people obviously feel a need to "believe" in something that cannot be proved - and even make a virtue out of the lack
of proof.
But I'm just as inclined to see this as a deficiency in me as opposed to a deficiency in the believers. Agree to differ, and all that.
Religions are fine as long as they accept that not everyone believes in *that* religion or even in *any* religion. Sadly a lot of religions
(fervent Christianity or fervent Islam) feel that their way is the *only* way, and look down on people (*) who don't believe in their way. At best, religions are a good code for everyone living harmoniously (do as you
would be done by, think of others as well as yourself). Shame that they
have to weaken those excellent messages by bringing in concepts of worship and believe-despite-no-proof ;-) I'm not really a humanist, because they actively believe that there is no god; I'm more passive that that: "maybe there is, maybe there isn't - it's all totally irrelevant to me".
(*) Or persecute or kill non-believers.
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