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Re: Christianity the pressure group (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Jan 18, 2005 - 03:57 PM

This is m and I've got very confused by trying to follow the comments made to this article so I'm sorry if I repeat anything and also I'm unlikely to be able to find it if anyone responds to this...!

I did recently forward an email about the Jerry Springer thing - and it's not something I often do. Also, I've never before expressed any concern to tv companies about the content of programmes shown. This time, I did email - I hadn't seen the show but I had no way to see it before it was due to be on tv (and also I'm not quite sure that I think you should have to see something in order to be concerned about its content) but the reason I DID do it this time was that I know people of other religions would be up in arms about it if their religion was represented in a bad light. [My husband watched an interview with someone at the BBC who did say that there's no way they would have shown a show like that if it featured Islam because of the reaction it would get.]

I don't actually really agree with censorship - I think someone being allowed to stop us seeing/knowing about things is a dangerous road to go down, and I believe we have freedom in Christ. All things are permissable but not all are beneficial or something like that...

But sometimes it's hard to get the balance because it's also important to stand up for what we believe in. In one of the schools I work in, they bend over backwards to accomodate the needs of (and not offend) the Muslim kids but don't seem to feel that Christianity needs to be acknowledged and God can't be talked about and more places seem to be going in this direction.