oro! wrote:The question is, how do we speak the truth in love, while standing for our beliefs?
Kawaiikneko wrote:The same thing happens with prayer in schools, but that's another topic entirely.
kaemmerite wrote:NBC doing this is not the same, they are an independent company, which means they could have left the content in if they so chose to. The fact that they did not shows they were trying to avoid nasty letters from non-Christians.
beau99 wrote:I saw an episode. They're hardly edited at all.
Also, NBC edits all religious programming. Not just Christian.
Woah, the FCC hasn't yet wiped out the constitutionally mandated rights of free speech and for the State to have no right to interfere with the free practice of religion, which would include mainstream networks broadcasting unfettered religious content if they wish to.Since they're a broadcast network, they also have to abide by FCC rules. One of the rules involves religious-based programming.
GhostontheNet wrote: Woah, the FCC hasn't yet wiped out the constitutionally mandated rights of free speech and for the State to have no right to interfere with the free practice of religion, which would include mainstream networks broadcasting unfettered religious content if they wish to.
kaemmerite wrote:I just wanted to say, this is completely different from prayer in schools, because NBC is not a government affiliated station. Separation of church and state clearly states the government is not to establish religion, so a public school holding a prayer would be an obvious violation of that, as they are a government institution.
NBC doing this is not the same, they are an independent company, which means they could have left the content in if they so chose to. The fact that they did not shows they were trying to avoid nasty letters from non-Christians.
Kawaiikneko wrote:What it warns against is the government setting up a "state religion", not outlawing all religious content in a government institution. That idea is more taken from an unofficial letter written by John Adams to a group of concerned Christians who worried the government would limit their religious freedom. There's a difference.
rocklobster wrote:If they had, EWTN (a Catholic-run cable channel) or TBN would no longer be airing.
mitsuki lover wrote:The reason for the First Amendment is because in the 18th century before the Colonies became States each section had it's own Established Church that even non-members had to pay public tax to help support.For example if you were either
a Presbyterian or Baptist and lived in Virginia you would still have to pay to support the Anglican church.In New England it was the Congregational Church that was the Established Church.This was common also in Europe where religious dissidents would be taxed to help support the State Church no matter what it was.
Actually the Congregational Church remained the Established Church in,I believe,
Massachuetts up until around 1820 when it was the last of the Established Churches to be dis-stablished.
In light of the blatant unconstitutionality of such sanctions, the fact that I recieve PAX on Network TV out here, you're going to need to cite which laws you refer to.beau99 wrote:That's the thing.
They're cable networks, not broadcast networks. Cable networks aren't controlled by FCC sanctions. If they were, MTV and Comedy Central would be off the air.
Heart of Sword wrote:It's best to edit out all religious stuff, Christian or not, in children's shows shown on TV. That way, at least we don't have to worry about the kids hearing false teaching.
Complete and utter nonsense. As I consider it, almost any religious perspective is better than this secular materialistic crypto-nihilist garbage they peddle on the networks. I wanna see more of Yeshua, Buddha, Muhammed, and the Brahman, and less Worship My American Idol Because Celebrities are Our Only Gods, less Decadent Housewives, less Who Wants to Sell Their Soul and Work as a High-up in a Megacorp. I want to have children I can engage in decent intelligent conversations about the concepts of substitutionary atonement in Christianity and sunyaya and the subtle mind in Buddhism. Most of the reason 'Christian America' is so spiritually impoverished is that we think religious tolerance consists of a choking stranglehood on any expression of religion having any relevence to real life, much less hearing evidence that any of it is actually true and that man need not live on bread alone.kaemmerite wrote:Heart of Sword, I could hug you! In fact, I think I will.
This is EXACTLY what I was thinking too. If there was a cartoon about how Hinduism was awesome and everyone should be a Hindu, would we as Christians want our kids to watch that? Wouldn't we want the station to kinda downplay the Hindu stuff and just have it be a regular cartoon? Most of us here would probably say yes, so isn't it kinda hypocritical to complain about them editing Christian references out of stuff if we would want Hindu or Muslim or Buddhist stuff edited out?
Just a little something to think about. ^^
Scarecrow wrote:Actually, Big Ideas is no longer run by the same people. Big Ideas went bankrupt a couple years ago and I think the people in controll of it now aren't even Christians. [...]
GhostontheNet wrote:In light of the blatant unconstitutionality of such sanctions, the fact that I recieve PAX on Network TV out here, you're going to need to cite which laws you refer to.
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