If you've been to Beliefnet.com, you know that it's a good place for discovering things about religion and spirituality. It's got a fairly accurate and extensive quiz one can take to help you give a "name" to what you feel the deepest in your heart.
So imagine my cringing soul when I discover that Beliefnet has been bought out by Fox Entertainment Corporation.
Right now, Fox network TV stations seem to be rife with slanted perspectives when their duty is to be impartial. Not only that, Fox network has made it a habit to censor certain things in the name of "family values" when they are the ones who willingly broadcast shows like "King of the Hill" or "Simpsons." I must admit, I like the latter, but "King of the Hill" drives this non-redneck, non-beer-swilling Pagan lady crazy. For one thing, it's sexist and encourages the lowest common denominator of general human idiocy (Hank Hill had better be glad he's just a cartoon character, or his liver would seriously be in trouble with all the beer he drinks).
Plus, what really has my inner marching band making a lot of warning noises is this paragraph from "Fox Entertainment Group":
>>Fox said Beliefnet will also become a distributor of content from News Corp.'s faith-based businesses, including HarperCollins' Zondervan and HarperOne brands, and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's faith-based programming initiative.<<
Most people would assume from the names mentioned that this is clearly oriented towards the mainstream religious groups, especially Christianity. Where does this leave Muslims, Jews, Buddhists and even Pagans who like to venture over to Beliefnet? Are we non-Christians going to be continually inundated with Christian propaganda--especially that of the right-wing "moralists"--at Beliefnet all on Fox's say-so? I'll have to wait and see, but I'm not getting too good a vibe from this business deal.
Even when I was a Christian, I detested people pushing their idiotic ideas of who was considered acceptable and who was not...or what actions were supposedly okay with the Divine and what were not okay. So why I or any other spiritual folks have to put up with Fox's continual encroachment on our rights to a propaganda-free path to Enlightenment is beyond my understanding.
If this encroachment continues, I will be more than happy to go to other spirituality sites that are not as willing to fall back on support from big entertainment groups who only have the interests of the right-wingers at heart.
Thus endeth my rant.
BB,
Rev. Kat ^.^
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