There is no great religious leader - from the Buddha to Moses to Jesus to Mohammed to Luther - who offered people waht they want. Only what they need. But television is not well suited to offering people what they need. It is "user friendly".
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I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.
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It is well understood at the National Council that the danger is not that religion has become the content of television shows, but that television shows may become the content of religion.
pp123, 124, 127
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