Congress Needs to De-Fund PBS War on Religion
By J. James Estrada (05/01/07)
Are Christians just as dangerous as radical Islamists? That's what a new PBS documentary, A Brief History of Disbelief, is saying. And, this is from the same people who refused to air a documentary giving voice to moderate Muslims in the United States. Why silence that voice and give voice to atheists who decry any religious belief? Because, it seems that in the halls of the Public Broadcasting System, all religion is bad.
Here is a quote from “Disbelief” producer and narrator Jonathan Miller:
"The spectacle of September 11 is a forceful reminder of the potentially destructive power of the three great monotheistic religions [Christianity, Judaism and Islam] that have dominated the world one way or another for nearly 2,000 years," the author asserts.
"You only have to travel a few miles from New York City to find yourself in the middle of a country which is - far from being the secular world which was deplored and attacked by the Islamic fundamentalists - is in fact intensely Christian and therefore in its own way, of course, is just as religious as the Muslim world that attacked it," he adds.
The newly surging Republican Congress in 1996 was to have de-funded the Left’s propaganda machine at PBS. It did not do so. As usual, Republicans feared being seen as “meanies;” in this case, they would have been seen as killing Big Bird, Bert and Ernie. In this age of satellite TV, cable and the Internet, those Children’s Television Workshop characters would have found a home somewhere amongst the hundreds of channels of information and entertainment available to virtually every home in America. But then again, Republican vocal chords somehow could not then, and can not now, utter the words the words that would explain this reality in simple and direct terms.
PBS and NPR are doing the Left’s mass communications heavy lifting on the taxpayer dole; it’s bad enough that broadcast networks ABC, NBC and CBS, are Soviet-style propaganda outlets for the Democrat Party. While those entities decried the wearing of American flag pins, they should have worn arm bands containing the hammer and cycle to be true to their “beliefs.”
It’s time for Congress de-fund PBS’s war on religion. But, of course, this action will have to wait for a Republican-controlled Congress; one with a backbone and an unwavering speaking voice. More importantly, what is needed is a Congress with the courage to stand up for our religious heritage and our Judeo-Christian value system.
J. James Estrada
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