![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
For the longest time everyone in polite American society followed a simple rule for social harmony. Dinner conversation should always avoid two simple topics, religion and politics. What this means in not to ignore such things, but to keep one's personal biases to oneself. It a pretty sane rule, keeps the blood spatter to a minimum when folks at parties consume too much of the only legal recreational substance in the Land of the Free. ( Ok, alcohol and drug policy hypocrisy is another blog... )
Now, religious ideology gluts the media. The tacit separation of Church and the Fourth Estate has been worn away steadily in my lifetime. The current political agenda has pretty much destroyed the functional exercise of the First Amendment of the Constitution. And some Christians are happy because they feel the country is finally expressing the proper sentiment of their moral majority. They shouldn't be.
The Christian, once as sacred as all other religions in the USA, is now profane. Why are some ideas sacred? Why have priests immemorial of all faiths keep the core teaching to a few? Because ideas, when filtered and refiltered through the mouths of many, become twisted and misunderstood.
And as the Church is embraced in the media, let us not forget how the fickle media ultimately treats all it's trysts. No, being popular is not a blessing. What should have been guarded against has been pushed by the unwise. They will reap what they have sown.
Now, religious ideology gluts the media. The tacit separation of Church and the Fourth Estate has been worn away steadily in my lifetime. The current political agenda has pretty much destroyed the functional exercise of the First Amendment of the Constitution. And some Christians are happy because they feel the country is finally expressing the proper sentiment of their moral majority. They shouldn't be.
The Christian, once as sacred as all other religions in the USA, is now profane. Why are some ideas sacred? Why have priests immemorial of all faiths keep the core teaching to a few? Because ideas, when filtered and refiltered through the mouths of many, become twisted and misunderstood.
And as the Church is embraced in the media, let us not forget how the fickle media ultimately treats all it's trysts. No, being popular is not a blessing. What should have been guarded against has been pushed by the unwise. They will reap what they have sown.