Polluted Airwaves

While cruising today, I noticed that of the dozen or so stations on the radio, a full four of them were Christian. This man on one station was complaining about people who comment on the bible. “Why listen to them when we can go straight to the source?” He argued. Then he went on to explain a passage in the bible.

And I thought, well, the Bible is not all that long. Surely they’d run out of material eventually?
THEN I thought about all of the other books that are longer than the Bible. They’d have more material, so they should logically be more represented. Why aren’t there any radio stations dedicated to those? Surely you could fill the same amount of time with geeks debating Star Wars/Trek canon. And what about all of the Tolkienites? You could tune in whenever you had the chance to figure out exactly what J.R.R. expects from us all.

Or Harry Potter. There are still more books coming out, so surely you could be on the radio 24/7/365 discussing various theories and interpretations of the books.

There’s no reason the Bible should have a monopoly on radio stations. Surely…

While cruising today, I noticed that of the dozen or so stations on the radio, a full four of them were Christian. This man on one station was complaining about people who comment on the bible. “Why listen to them when we can go straight to the source?” He argued. Then he went on to…

4 Comments

  1. Yes please. I enjoy hearing other people’s opinions.

    My argument is thus:
    the bible is X pages long (depending on the version you’re speaking of, X could be anything from 200 to 2000).
    christian radio stations spend many hours a day, every day of the year talking about and interpreting the bible (along with how many current events should affect christians).
    the Harry Potter Sextet is greater than X pages long and thus has more material from which to cover.
    a radio station dedicated to Harry Potter would be fun.
    there’s just as much authority in J.K. Rowling as there is in Yahweh.
    This is my final premise.
    Thus, if there are Christian stations, there should be other radio stations dedicated to other, longer, books.

    A perfectly consistent argument, if I do say so myself.