When N gives me driving lessons, he makes me listen to an Evangelical radio station because I need to learn to keep my cool in stressful situations. And what is more stressful than the endless chirping of anti-gay crusaders? The preachers on this station are obsessed with the advances of gay rights and talk about them endlessly.
A good priest I know always tell the parishioners who come to him with similar complaints, “My dear child, try to concentrate on your own soul and on your own spiritual well-being. Don’t tell me about what others are doing. Tell me about your own anger, envy, sloth, greed, etc. The best you can do is try to make yourself a little better. God’s plan for you does not include judging others.”
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As Orthodox Christians (are supposed to) pray every day in Lent: “Grant me to see my own sins and not to judge my brother.”
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It’s always easy, but also completely useless, to find sins in other people.
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The syndicated conservative evangelical radio and TV media constitute, along with FOX, a second media universe. It is entirely possible for people to listen, watch, and read only FOX plus evangelical media, and to regard “mainstream media” (eg. the Post Dispatch, the local news on radio and TV, Time magazine, etc) as engaging in a cover-up of The Truth. Multiple sourcing is unimportant for FOX plus evangelical outlets – if a favored person says it, it must be true. There seems to be a disinterest in factual reporting or in methodological (as opposed to ideological) criticism of reporting.
I started listening to KSIV at least 10 years ago, and listen occasionally to this day, to get the political pulse of a significant percentage of the local population. Preaching against the gay rights movement, and indeed often about the non-existence of a perceived-as-inborn “gay” identity, is a safe topic because most of the audience members aren’t gay. The topic doesn’t offend the audience members, in fact implicitly flatters them, and keeps them willing to donate tithes. The preachers rarely mention poverty in their sermons, partly because the conservative evangelicals are Calvinists, conflating wealth and virtue. A cynic might point out that the TV and radio preachers don’t want their audience to send donations to some other organization because that would reduce the preachers’ own donation receipts.
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