Friday, July 29, 2011

Does the News Have a Religion?

It's strange how the news regards itself as being unbiased and totally objective (which I kind of think is actually a flaw in some ways), and yet they go out of their way to defend and condemn religions.

Case in point: Anders Behring Breivik who calls himself a Christian conservative standing against any kind of multicultural society (via GlobalPost.com)

First off, how can you be against a Multicultural Society??? Monocultural Society doesn't exist and couldn't possibly exist. I wouldn't even say the extreme society of 1984 was monocultural.
That just makes this guy a dumbass. That's like saying your against any sky that is determined to be the color blue.

But the issue most televised news stations seem to be having with this guy is that he claims to be affiliated with the Christian religion. They consider it an insult and an impossibility - like a zebra saying it's spotted. And it does make you wonder: If you claim to be a part of a religion, but then act against some of the core principles that religion is founded in, are you really a person of that faith?

Here's what I think:

If you are in a religion that states "It is immoral to eat a banana. Doing so will damn your soul for all eternity. No ifs-ands-ors-or-buts about it", and you then eat a banana -You Can Claim to be adhering to that religion all you want, but You Are Acting Against the principles of that religion and therefore the religion itself.

If you could act against Christianity by doing things against it's core principles and still be considered a Christian, what would be the point of having a claim in that religion in the first place be? Why claim to be Jewish if you are going to worship Satan?

Th same goes for Islam. There are over a million Muslims in the world. If all Muslims truly believed that God/Allah/Yaweh would have no problem with them murdering, assassinating, or commiting genocide, what would stop them from doing it themselves or not being horrified when others did? If all Muslims were terrorists none of us would be here. We would all be dead. If all Christians were Nazis or members of the KKK, none of us would be here.

Monsters are monsters. They are not Christians. they are not Jews. They are not Muslims. They are not Latinos. They are not Chinese. They are not Women. They are not Men. Monsters are Monsters.

5 comments:

  1. That's a quality post right there.

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  2. As for if news should be biased or not, I read you having problems with that. I replied, but back then I didn't know how to post on here and it got erased.

    News has to remain unbiased...that's the beauty of news. That being said, I'm afraid that news is rather biased these days.

    But the originaly purpose of news was that facts should simply be reported---let the people then make what they will with it.
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  3. I'm not saying the news should skew the facts, but when they just spew facts out with no reaction to them, people get use to seeing others not reacting so then they don't react as much -or they overreact over the wrong things like the news does.

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  4. I think we can blame the information age more than the news for our desensitizing. There's just so....much...info...

    We can't possibly react to it all.

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