Explain why some religious believers might think the media has advantages and disadvantages?

Answer 1

The media has both advantages and disadvantages for any belief, whether political, religious, or other. There is a saying that "all publicity is good publicity" - but that is not always true, of course. The media is a way of making known one's faith to a large number of people in a short time. The media can sometimes, however, give a distorted, disproportionate, picture of a certain religion or thought system. For instance, from a Christian standpoint, I can think of one year when there were three or four television preachers (all of them being marginal to Evangelical Christianity, but the media never said that) involved in scandals: financial or sexual. Well, these stories made good news, of course, and so we heard them over and over and over and over again, until someone might think the definition of a Christian preacher was scandal! I believe it was Time magazine that did a story on Billy Graham, showing him to be beyond reproach. However even then he was presented almost as though he were an exception to the rule. So really, the media was not very helpful in that situtation. In general, however, Christianity, and, I believe most religions. would find the media to be very helpful in propagating their beliefs.

Answer 2

Everybody with half a brain thinks that the media has advantages and disadvantages, all for the same reason.

Sometimes the media gets the facts wrong, sometimes they get it right.

Answer 3

same reasoning they say the TV is of the devil

but really it's user chooses what to tune into

TBN's biggest disadvantage...others clearly see it as a fraud

it's advantage, loyal people already duped into giving money to get blessing at an undisclosed date

Answer 4

One advantage - get the story out faster and farther. Of course, Jesus wasn't necessarily in favor of that - "See that you tell nobody" - not until the appointed time. With the media you have no control of that.

Answer 5

well the disadvantages of the media are that they show you only what they want to show you due to the fact that it's all about ratings and they take things and twist them

Answer 6

The Media is cool.

Answer 7

Lokk what Jesus might have achieved if he had access to the media. There might even be some evidence that he existed

Answer 8

Most media is about entertainment, not truth or facts.

Answer 9

The reason corndogs don't burn in a parcect oven is due to the extra dimension, normally hidden by the black hole.

Answer 10

mostly all media is liberal and one-sided. watch Fox News for fair & balanced