Mass Media Vs Religion (1-20-22)

Bryan Ronald Wilson wrote in 1966:

* Today, even though the Church is able to use the means of mass
communication, it does so only marginally—marginally to its own
total communication, which still relies on the nexus of pulpit and pew
and on religious literature, and marginally to the total content of the
mass media as a whole. Compared to the amount of entertainment,
music, news, drama, secular education and all the other types of item
carried by television, radio, Press and cinema, religious information
has become a very tiny part indeed. Nor are religionists as good at
using the media as those who are instructing or entertaining. They
have developed few, if any, new techniques for its use, and they use it by
courtesy and on sufferance. They tend to be older and middle-aged
men using media increasingly dominated by the young. It might not be
untrue to say that they are the deference note of the mass communicators, ‘employed’ to whiten the image of an industry which is frequently charged with subversive, immoral and deleterious presentations.

As long as the Church connives in using the media, the media
controllers can use this fact in their own defence, as evidence of
their social responsibility. But, given the religionist’s necessary
assumption that religious truth is pre-eminent and that it ought to
take a dominant place in our minds, the relegation of religious
material to a marginal place in the programmes of the mass communications is itself a derogation of the religious message. https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141986

Academic: Why there is no way back for religion in the West, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142143
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Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01209-2

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