Re: Any comments?


"Richard" <riplin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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James J. Gavan wrote:

Instead of playing word games

You mean, for example:

I made no reference to the word 'offense'.

Letters get posted on a variety of topics, possibly, environment,
women's rights to control their own bodies, same sex-marriages, the
legal system, (by no mean restricted to some of the controversials I
have listed). The respondents are easy to identify - whether the
original letter made inference, direct or indirect to *anything*
associated with the word 'religion'. They are from the secular world,
(people who may have been church/temple/mosque-goers as kids and have
given up on religion, agnostics or atheists - sometimes identifying
themselves as such).

Only 'sometimes' identifying as such, is it just a guess that the rest
are or do you have voices telling you that the rest are too ?

In their definition of democracy the word 'religion' is an absolute
No-No. "Practice what you want, but not religion". Responses for the
most part are very often sarcastic/terse, a few have a vindictive tone.
Sometimes I check their names to confirm the authors - the letters might
just have easily been written by a Richard Plinston.

People are offended by many different things. The local Music TV
station shows South Park. The local chapter of the 'Cult of Mary'
started complaining that the episode 'Bloody Mary' was going to be
shown in a couple of months time, and it should be banned. C4 responded
by rescheduling to show it that week and had the highest ratings ever.
Not only that but many said they stayed on that channel to watch the
Pink Floyd doco and will return to see the 'classic albums series' they
didn't know about before.

I didn't know about the 'Cult of Mary'... is that for real, or do you mean
Roman Catholics...:-)?

I missed the episode of Bloody Mary (probably the only person in NZ who did;
next day everyone in my team had seen it and none were offended. (I've
described elsewhere, it is a very multicultural and diversely ethnic team).

I rarely watch C4, (I'm not in their target age group and I find the noise
offputting), but I do watch South Park (and have since the first series) and
I do go to channel 4 for Beavis and Butthead and Jackass if there is nothing
else on and I can't be bothered doing anything constructive. I find both of
these mildly amusing and sometimes actually funny.

I was interested in your point about the 'Classic Albums' series. I only
found it by accident on C4 but was blown away by Fleetwood Mac 'Rumours' and
'Bat out of Hell', which have always been two of my personal favourites.
Sorry I missed the Pink Floyd one (it was on the same night as Bloody Mary'
I think?)

I really hope this series becomes available on DVD as the ones I've seen
were outstanding.

What _I_ objected to was that the religionists wanted to have control
over what _I_ could watch. Not that I wanted to see South Park, but I
object to 'book burning'.

Yep. Me too. (Although I do enjoy South Park. It went a bit flat as they
seemed to run out of ideas a while back, but the latest ones have been
funny; I especially enjoyed the one about the vote for school mascot... some
pertinent observations there :-)).

Pete.


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