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pfretzschner
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 05/19/2005 : 12:37:25
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Is anyone else out there addicted to Christian talk radio? There's a horrifying local station here in Portland that I listen to every time I'm in the car. It broadcasts a mix of local yokels and national shows, like "Unraveling the New World Order" (with "Dr." Larry Bates and his son, Master Bates) "Politics and Religion" and the local "Warning" with the loony Prophet-Apostle Jonathan Hanson. While I enjoy hearing about how someone has wasted years of their lives worrying about how Mikhail Gorbachev may be the Antichrist, I can't get enough of the voices themselves. It seems that to make it in Christian broadcasting, you need a regional accent that amounts to a speech impediment. Irvin Baxter, of "Politics and Religion" says "eeshew" when he means "issue", "naytional" when he means "national" and, my favorite, "Boosh" when he means "Bush". And then there's the nut who tells about his experience as an Illuminatus while sounding like Dan Ackroyd in "The Blues Brothers": "togedder", "anudder" etc. I hope I don't sound snobbish when I say that hearing this guy say something like "Da Illuminati, togedder wit da Masons and da Trilateral Commission, control everyting" nearly makes me crash the car.
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 05/19/2005 : 14:47:55 [Permalink]
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Shouldn't this be in the religion forum?
Or humor. I got a chuckle out of your last sentence.  |
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pfretzschner
Skeptic Friend
USA
67 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 14:52:33 [Permalink]
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| Ooops! My bad. Uhhh, how does one move a topic? Dave? |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 05/19/2005 : 17:57:27 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by pfretzschner
Ooops! My bad. Uhhh, how does one move a topic? Dave?
Well, you did say you were addicted to Christian radio. Wouldn't addictions fall under health? 
As to listening to it, I can't. When I drive home to Ohio and pass through PA, there are spots in the mountains where all you can get is Christian radio. Scanning through the dial is like "buzzz bzzz Gawd!! brzzz bzzss Jeezus! grrgszzz Sinner!" No way I can listen to that stuff longer than 5 seconds before I want to yank my radio out of the dash.
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| Edited by - H. Humbert on 05/19/2005 17:58:09 |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26021 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 18:18:23 [Permalink]
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| Um, it is in the Religion folder. If some other staff member moved it, shame on them for not putting the proper note in your OP. |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9687 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 20:02:18 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
Um, it is in the Religion folder. If some other staff member moved it, shame on them for not putting the proper note in your OP.
 I'm innocent...
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 01:01:07 [Permalink]
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Having to put up with enough bullshit in the normal course of the day, I don't add to it by listening to any talk radio; not even Air America.
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 06:18:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Um, it is in the Religion folder. If some other staff member moved it, shame on them for not putting the proper note in your OP.
Wasn't me (not like anyone suspected me, what with my inability to actually use any of my mod powers...)! |
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 06:29:29 [Permalink]
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In Baltimore, one of the main Christian stations is 95.1 WRBS (which is funny, what with it sounding like "our b[ull]s[hit]" and all). But they changed tth format somewhat so that it got rid of some of my favorite programs (e.g. The Bible Answerman) and added more sappy Christian music which, like, really! Still, they have Dobson's "Focus on the Family" and D. James Kennedy's "Truths that Transform" and other laughers.
In Oklahoma, I used to listen to KQCV's 800 AM (I just now realized that their FM station is also 95.1!!!). It was more hard core with no music and creepier programs, particularly on the weekend. (Curious-- I see that on Saturday mornings they air Bush's radio address. When I was living there Clinton was in office. I don't seem to recall ever hearing the President's radio address, even though I regularly listened in the morning. What cocksuckers!) Good for many laughs! |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 07:36:25 [Permalink]
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| Living here in Mobile, AL there are plenty of Christian stations with plenty of talk radio. However, I am genetically incapable of listening to any of it. The two halves of my brain have far too many interconnects for me to able to process that "information." ;-) Seriously, listening to that stuff usually makes me too angry to be able to drive efficiently, and I don't listen to the radio at home. |
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 15:01:05 [Permalink]
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| One of our local sports stations changed frequencies, and their old one was taken by Relevant Radio, a catholic bunch. I occasionally stop by for some amusing blather (but in small doses). It's actually quite comical when they rant on about what satan is up to, as if they actually have a freakin' clue about anything. And I heard some priest talking about fasting, and how it hypes up your prayers into super-overdrive or some such nonsense, that made me laugh out loud. All in all, a more deluded herd would be hard to find outside of the psych ward. |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
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