Drip feed of Religion

[modeller]

The C of E consistantly complain that not enough religion is broadcast by the media but in fact it is far greater than you think many programmes introduce religion by the backdoor. If you listen to the Archers hardly a episode goes by without church activities being mentioned even Midsommer Murders have their church fetes and choir practices and clerics are again and again involved in Soaps and 'Who done its' . When you consider only 7% of Anglicans profess to regularly attend a place of worship and the true figure is actually lower the media is not representing reality. Are we being brainwashed by this backdoor drip, drip of religion.?

[Oneeyedvic]

Bear in mind that attendance at Church of England Churches is around 900,000 on an average Sunday - that is more than watch live Premiership Football in grounds. Obviously a lot of people watch football at home or in pubs just as a lot of people are religious even though they may not regularly attend church.

If you counted up the amount of time that the Archers, Midsommer Murders etc that have a positive spin on religion (and include Songs of Praise etc) I doubt that you would get to 7% of programming hours - so it is probably about right.

[modeller]

Possibly ahmskunnirt but it's us who are being brainwashed not your your 'Holy Joes'
or the few church attendees. They are already in the fold and any covert brainwashing would just enhance their beliefs that religion is important in everyonse lives where we know it plays a very small part of it or none at all.

[shaneystar2]

How can you possibly equate Midsomer Murders as a drip feed of religion .Come on ..it's a murder mystery much the same as the mystery of Christ being crucified on the cross . Church fetes and all that sort of gumf are essential to these sort of murder mysteries .They're fiction !
People will believe what they want to believe regardless of watching MM or a soap opera.
I love Midsomer Murders .I watch it to oogle at John Nettles. The fact that they have "church fetes " doesn't influence my beliefs in any religion at all .
I think I'm grown up enough to avoid being brainwashed by a whodunnit .

[modeller]

No that is the point I'm not trying to get a debate on relgion itself but on the way minority groups try to exert pressure by backdoor methods.In the News Media this week and today's Telegraph the C of E synod wants to spend more of our licence fee money on their beliefs. I would have thought the way the BBC spends / wastes our money is newsworthy. It just happens C of E is the most vocal .
Incidently I did pose the same question in the Society & Culture section but we get more lively debates in the News.

[modeller]

I wonder why ahmskunnier 10% of the questions in the News are linked to religion ( count them over the last few weeks ) and yet you didn't want to send them to your Holy Joes '. Many of which generated a large number of answers which is the aim I thought of Q & A . However I do appreciate your contribution very much.

[brionon]

Oneeyedvic -- 900,000 ? Where did you get this Stat from ?