Fox most 'anti-religious' network

ok seriously wtf?
just because none of the characters are openly religious does not mean that the network is anti-religion...
if those religious nuts wanted more religion on TV maybe they should stop all this unnecessary babling about what is on TV that shouldnt be there...
so there are more Gay / Lesbian characters on TV than religious ones, get the frig over it

I know I'm a little late, but I had to respond to Brodie's comments in #51.

"In God We Trust" wasn't added to the currency until the 1950s, the same time period "under God" was inserted into the Pledge of Allegiance (which, BTW, was written by a socialist). It was all about contrasting the American way of life with the godless commies in the USSR.

As for seperation of church and state, strict constructionists argue that we need to look at the original intent of the founders. Well, none other than Thomas Jefferson wrote that there should be "a wall of seperation" between church and state, and advised his nephew to "question boldly even the existance of God."

Thomas Paine (the brilliant pamphleteer behind the pro-independence Common Sense) wrote The Age of Reason, which is basically a booklength denunciation of religion. Benjamin Franklin speculated that perhaps what we think of and worship as God is little more than a branch manager of this part of the Universe and answers to a still-higher god. (that is, when Franklin wasn't boinking basically anything in a skirt)

BTW, the Constitution has no reference to the god (and indeed says no religious test shall be required to hold an office of the United States). Nor does the Declaration of Independence (the closest the Declaration of Independence gets is "Creator" and "Nature's God," both of which were deist concepts). And if the founders of this country were such on-fire Christians, don't you think they would have put such references into the founding documents?

did anybody know that in a catholic wedding on a tv show, or in movies, they play that "here comes the bride" song? but in a REAL catholic wedding they WON"T because of rumors that the song's composer was an "anti semite"? those producers of those soap operas, and movies, better wise up! and stop playing it if the scene is a catholic wedding. but it's ok to play it for a christian wedding scene.

Jesus loves me, but he doesn't giva a fuck about you.
JJW

If people were more tolerant and didn't push "humor" so far, then there would be no problems. Borat, I didn't see that movie but I know he made fun of every religious, ethnic, racial whatever and I don't find it funny. Book of Daniel, Jesus wouldn't tell someone to the type of crap they had him playing out to be. That wasn't funny.

If you're a Christian, you're not supposed to be intolerant. You can feel something's wrong but i doesn't mean you hate the person.

About these PTC people, they need a life. Who cares about this? They have a right to their opinion. What, is the US 80% Christian. There's a small percentage of atheists and others who don't care. Shows like House and Bones have smartly written anti-religion into their script. For example, House hates God because he couldn't control getting his leg whatever happened to it. The explanation's somewhere but I forgot (it's just a great show with alot of rude and funny jokes) but there's a reason. Bones in the show Bones doesn't believe in God because she's too much of a scientist to believe in God. Anything that's more comdey to me mocks God because just going to church every Sunday does not give you a ride to heaven. You might actually go to hell alittle faster actually for pretending to be a Christian.

Thanks to twisted freaks like James Dobson and Ralph Reed, Christianity has become associated with inolerance, cruelty, hypocrisy and greed.

If TV is a means to expose these vipers, then God bless TV!
JP

MYTHS, LEGENDS & SUPERSTITIONS are not a basis for my life, shouldn't be for anyone.
I watched the Simpson's for the first time in years last night while waiting for 24 to start. I really liked it and will watch again, great social commentary [homer joins the Army]- by the way COMEDY CENTRAL has to the most critical network for all the followers of mass delusions - Daily Shows, has This Week in Religion, South Park has hit them all, Mencia and in the Deity World Wrestling Scientology beat Mohammed.
I am a battalion chief in the War on Xmas and we are expanding to War on Easter too
Xians beware, your days are numbered!

The biggest flaw that I see in regard to TV shows and religion is the sheer ABSENCE of religion, particularly in drama series. For example, there will be a show where a character is lingering near death in a hospital, and yet no one will be shown praying. That's just unrealistic. If you knew nothing about American culture, you could watch a whole lot of TV, and never get a clue that anyone in this country ever prays or goes to church.
One notable exception to this trend was the show "NYPD Blue" - while neither the show itself, nor any of the main characters, was "overtly" religious, still, when personal crises loomed, there would often be, say, a scene in a church, with a character talking out loud to God. And even in non-crisis moments, an occasional scene of Andy's son saying his prayers before bedtime. THAT's an accurate reflection of American society.
A show like "The Book of Daniel" failed because it was just idiotic - especially purporting to be a show with religion as its major theme. Rather than go with a believable picture of religious people with ordinary (and hopefully comic) human problems/failings, it was more like a contest to see which character could "out-sin" the others. The priest is a drug addict, his wife is a drunk, their daughter's a drug DEALER, their adopted son is banging the bishop's daughter, and the priest's secretary is a lesbian. I mean, come on - give me a break.

MrWeen stop spreading the dogma of separation of church and state.

It is not in the constitution but used as an agenda by activist liberal judges

the idea you are referring to is simply not to allow the government to establish a national religion, not that religion cant be part of our government body

wake up, the founding fathers wouldn't have put prayer in if they didn't want God(with a capital G) as part of the country, besides, you can see what the last 4 decades of a secular style government has produced, garbage.

Aren't TV shows like Family Guy, the Simpsons, and House mainly meant for an adult audience? Family Guy and the Simpsons are comedies and have a right to make fun of anything they want. House is much more complicated than that. There may be atheist characters such as Dr. House and Dr. Cameron, Dr. Chase and Dr. Foreman have both proven to be religious. If parents want to shelter their children from sarcastic comedies and deep dramas, why don't they? If parents want their children to be ignorant of the satire of society, then just don't let them watch TV14 and MA ratings!