From George Carlin’s book ‘When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?’
‘Granted, the world of UFO-belief has its share of kooks, nuts and fringe people, but have you ever listened to some of these religious true-believers? Have you ever heard of any extreme, bizarre behavior and outlandish claims associated with religious zealots? Could any of them be considered kooks, nuts, or dingbats? A fair person would have to say yes. But the marginal people in these two groups don’t matter in this argument. What matters is the prejudice and superstition built into the media coverage of the two sets of beliefs. One is treated reverently and accepted as received truth, the other is treated laughingly and dismissed out of hand. As evidence of the above premise, I offer one version of a typical television news story heard each year on the final Friday of Lent:
“Today is Good Friday, observed by Christians worldwide as a day that commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, whose death redeemed the sins of mankind”
Here is the way it should be written:
“Today is Good Friday, observed worldwide by Jesus buffs as the day on which the popular, bearded cultural figure, sometimes referred to as The Messiah, was allegedly crucified and — according to legend — died for mankind’s so-called sins. Today kicks off a ‘holy’ weekend that culminates on Easter Sunday, when, it is widely believed, this dead ‘savior’, — who also, by the way, claimed to be the son of a sky-dwelling, invisible being known as God — mysteriously ‘rose from the dead’. According to the legend, by volunteering to be killed and actually going through with it, Jesus saved every person who has ever lived — and every person who ever will live — from an eternity of suffering in a fiery region popularly known as hell, providing — so the story goes — that the person to be ‘saved’ firmly believes this rather fanciful tale.”
That would be an example of unbiased news reporting. Don’t wait around for it to happen. The aliens will land first.’
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