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Vel Frost's avatar

alas, this is far too true. Curious how they have their imaginary friend on the money, have thousands of churches (of which each hates the rest) and about a quarter of radio stations are religions in the US.

"Faith-based radio stations make up a considerable part of the media landscape in the United States. More than 4,000 terrestrial religious stations broadcast throughout the country, according to a Pew Research Center analysis from the Pew-Knight Initiative – that’s about a quarter of the more than 17,000 FCC-licensed AM and FM stations in the United States. Anywhere people live across the country, there’s probably at least one religious station they can tune in to." - "Religious Radio Across America" Pew Research Center

Also, ""Almost all U.S. adults – 98% – live within the local coverage range of at least one religious radio station." in the same study.

Info on tv stations is far harder to find, but there are at least 24 groups, that include CBN, Daystar, EWTN, TBN, GODTV, etc. On my cable system, Xfinity/Comcast, there are at least a dozen, both christian and jewish.

"Hartford Institute estimates there are roughly 373,000 religious congregations in the United States. This figure is midway between the lower US Religion Census 2020 count of 356,642 religious congregations and the higher estimate of 384,000 by Simon G. Brauer (2017, “How Many Congregations Are There? Updating a Survey-Based Estimate,” in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 438-448). Within this estimate of 373,000, approximately 335,000 are Protestant and other Christian churches, 23,000 are Catholic and Orthodox churches, and about 15,000 are religious congregations or communities of other faiths." - "Fast Facts on American Religion" Hartford International University for Religion and Peace (fancy name for a reformed protestant seminary)

Cindi Lynch's avatar

"Dwight Privilege"? Seriously? Is that a pseudonym for White Privilege?

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