@edgarblythe,
Quote:One can find studies to prove any point.
Maybe, but they can hardly be scientific studies if they are that flexible. The constantly rumbling row here over the disuse of playing fields in schools is not applicable to the denominational schools. That sort of fact is easily studied objectively. In some schools I know about the three Rs are religion, rugby and writing.
Some scientists reckon that the stagnation of the primal juices in injurious to health. And the expression "military service fades" can also mean, and usually does, getting older and lazier.
Does one ever become a civilian?
What is at stake here Ed is not personal. I am pointing to the inconsistency of media in attacking religious observances and not the sporting temperment which are intimately linked. This hypocrisy, a word I use to avoid patronising those involved by assuming they are unaware of it, I would claim is because media can make very little money out of religious observances and it can make plenty of money out of the sporting temperment and also because media lacks the guts to attack the sporting temperment and attacking religious devotion is dead easy.
As soon as tobacco advertising was banned (i.e. media can make no money out of the smoking habit) it was obvious that media would then engage in the villification of smoking for the very simple reason that expenditure on tobacco reduces expenditure on products it is still allowed to advertise.
Media is amoral. Television is another matter. Televsion is a scientific device raising binoculars to a new level and that is all it is. Seeing at a greater distance. Media is your new priesthood and it requires no vows to be taken.
