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Not only has television taken over out daily lives but it as also taken over our religion. No matter what your beliefs, there is someone on television preaching it. In Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman shows us how religion has turned into a form of entertainment when shown on television and how that influences how we practice our religion outside of the television world. Postman describes televised religious services as entertainment and a form of making money. On Reverend Terry's show audiences are always laughing and they seem to be having an enjoyable time praying to G-D. "When her audiences are shown in reaction shots they are almost always laughing" (114). Pat Robertson is the host of a television program called "700 Club" (144). The "700 Club" focuses on people who are born-again Christians. "His program includes interviews, singers, and taped segments with entertainers who are born-again Christians" (115). It really is not a show about the religion but more on born-again Christians as people are. Television also presents religion as a way of enhancing wealth. Reverend Terry uses people's love of money to gain an audience at home. People are always looking for ways to make more money; it is just th
Reverend Terry makes a "prosperity Campaign Kit" (114) which helps you get closer to Jesus and teaches you how to make more money. They have taken G-D's name and made it into a business. When people are in their holy place of worship and we are being preached to, we have no visuals. When we are watching a televised religious service it is more amusing because it is in the comfort of our own homes and we have a larger attention span for the television screen than we do if we were there in person. "Jimmy Swaggart plays better than G-D. I believe that whoever stays home to watch these religious services on television should go and ask G-D for His forgiveness for substituting such a program in His place. To be able to watch his shows people have to pay one hundred and eighty dollars a year! "'700 Club,' a television show and religious organization of sorts to which you can belong by paying fifteen dollars per month" (114). Television has invaded our world not for the better. In a Jewish temple they spend over fifty percent of the time at service trying to collect money as donations for Israel, for the next generation of Jewish children so the religion would not die out, and for the temple itself to reconstruct and expand. People have lost the true essence of their beliefs because of what that screen in our homes is showing us; and television needs to be entertaining or we will not watch it. "that prosperity is the true aim of religion" (114). They have huge pictures of the soldiers, of children, and of the future of the synagogue.
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