Television Religion

In light of the Altar Project and thinking about how I can relate my major to this course I came up with one of the largest symbolistic culprit of our time, television. Being  a digital film major makes it difficult to not see the influence of mass media on the general public. When I went looking around for statistics I began to notice something. Television and religion do not exactly get along, in fact religion is threatened by it. In l985 the A. C. Nielsen Company said that , "the television set was on in the average home seven hours and seven minutes a day." That was in 1985! Since then not seeing a television anywhere has become irregular . Most of us get our daily information fix for the day from it. From weather to current news, constant entertainment and information is available at just the push of a button. Its easy to see why religion can become fearful of TV, because TV is the new age opiate of the masses. Many of us don't even realize how powerful television is in shaping culture. In my a/v digital editing class we are learning about how the juxtaposition of certain images cut in a sequence can bring about different ideas and emotions that are not literally shown. Just like the Bible uses different passages to convey meaning that most of the time is not literally what is presented. Much like religion people tent to put "faith" into there television watching subconsciously. Its easy to believe everything that is on television, and for our society today "easy" is most definitely in.