gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) (01/30/85)
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Well, Mr. Arndt, your made-for-CRT adaptation of Conklin and McFadden's
"Television and Theology" seems to have bombed. Maybe you picked a
bad time slot. Or maybe the rave reviews haven't quite propagated
this far. I doubt it, though--I'm a lot closer to Peoria than you
are.
One surely could, as Arndt even suggests, substitute a few other major
theologies for the Christian doctrine in that article. But then you
could also substitute just about any other focus of our materialist
society for TV. So the upshot of it all is: Eschew the ephemeral
(the bad) for the everlasting (the good). This message is crucial
(literally!) to Christians because they believe that the natural human
condition is to do otherwise, and how! But this leaves non-Christians
wondering what all the fuss is. (Zeno, for example, is still waiting
for the turtle. That's a hint, Ken :-) When stripped of its siren's
place in Conklin and McFadden's odyssey, TV is simply "the idiot box",
not Pandora's.
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