Religious Media Coverage

Well here I am eating a king sized snickers bar and drinking a mountain dew. I have a little time on my hands and since I am properly wired I figured I would throw down some thoughts about how religion is covered by the main stream media.

I don't really watch alot of news on tv. I usually only tune in for the news if something locally has happened or if some knuckleheads decide to do something stupid and it makes a big mess somewhere.

A friend and co-worker of mine asked me yesterday if I had seen CNN's Special Report on the different religions? I hadn't. So he told me about what was being covered and what they were talking about and brought up some different points between Islam and Christianity. After listening for a few, I said that you cannot compare the two. About the only thing that compares is that there are alot of people on both sides that follow a belief..... Other than that it gets fuzzy very quickly.

I brought up the fact that these islamists that are killing in the name of allah cannot be compared to other religions just for their actions alone.
Of course then my friend brings up abortion clinic bombings that have been done in the past by "Christian" believers.
At first, I didnt even know how to respond to that. To be honest I had completely forgotten about those events. So having heard him say this I choose not to really respond with anything but a nod of the head. Later I had some time at home and thought about the difference between the islamists that kill in the name of allah and the "christians" that kill or blow up an abortion clinic in the name of God.
The thing that comes to my mind is the fact that: yes there have been abortion clinics that have been blown up and even a doctor or two that have been attacked or even killed because some person decides to be the bearer of judgement for God. Which in my opinion is a sad thing when this happens. In each and every case there has been an immediate response from the "Christian" community denouncing these acts and saying that "this is not who we are or what we stand for".
On the other side of the coin, we have islamic fundamentalists killing and attacking other religious people because they do not share the same belief as them. I have not heard any Imam or whatever it is they call their religious leaders denouncing these acts. Or how about when an islamist gets beat up by other islamists because they have broken some sharia law? Huh? Islam is a religion of peace? Huh? Who are you fooling?
I don't see any Christians running around with sticks beating up women in the street because they are wearing makeup in public or showing affection in public or wearing too revealing clothes. I could go on but I think I made my point.
They are not comparable and should not be compared to each other.



Stay Tuned.........