Week 1 article

"Sex replaces Bible stories on US radio"(dated 29 July 2006) is the title of my article chosen for Week 1. Click on the title of the article for the full story. If it does not work, please click the following link :
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/sl700377.html

Is it good or bad to have sex replacing Bible stories?

Below are my three (3) issues/responses based on the article.

1. "Mummy, I want to listen to the Bible story on radio."
This would most probably be what a child would say to the mother when she turns on the radio and switch it off straight away after finding out that the station now plays sexually suggestive music. Children of Christian families will no longer be able to listen to any Bible stories from that day onwards. It is a good way to educate children by listening to Bible stories because some parents find it difficult to teach their children about religion. A child may not be ready to read but with the radio, the child can listen. This way, the parents would not have to find extra spare time to read to them again. Instead, the child can tell the parents what he/she listened on the radio so that his/her parents will know if their child understood what he/she had just listened.


2. "I was just about to understand and learn more about Christianity."
Knowledge is a never ending process. What more the knowledge of Christianity. A person can be a Christian without knowing much about his/her religion and the station is one way of providing them a platform to learn. Newly converts or those who are planning to adopt Christianity will also be able to learn through the radio sermons and Bible stories. Through radio, even if they have to work extra time at the office, they will still be able to tune in to the channel. Radio allows their listeners to multi task! For example, doctors and nurses. They might not be able to attend Sunday services in church because their job requires them most of the time. Therefore, the station actually provides them with the sermons which they can listen while at the hospital. The sermons and Bible stories could even be recorded so that listeners will be able to listen to it again at any other time that they wish. For our local Malaysian radio station would be IKIM.FM which is an Islamic station. It has already been set in a schedule what will be on. They speak on the religion itself which is Islam, Quran readings, social issues, law and many other.


3. "It is about sex everywhere! So why does it have to be sex again? And it just has to be sex dedicated station."
It cannot be denied. Sex is everywhere! Sex is now all over the print and electronic media. In my opinion, the government should know what is aired on KFWE-FM. Here, the government will then decide if they think that it is not a problem to air sexually suggestive music. To me, even if the station insists to air those kinds of music, the songs should be at least be censored. Through that, the radio would not be promoting itself as a "porn radio" any longer.

All in all, I would say, a religious program cannot be replaced by sexually suggestive music. It is a mockery to the religion.