A television format will produce an entertaining and surreal gospel. This is not
misapplication of technology but the out working of its inherent potential. TV cannot
communicate rationally with any amount of depth. It is limited to images and pictures.
This is why common wisdom teaches that "the book is always better than the movie."
Only so much can be accomplished through film and TV. In-depth analysis and critical
thought must be left to the printed and spoken word. TV entertains, TV informs, and has
a limited capacity to educate-do not ask it to do more; it cannot.
a modern day miracle, likening satellites to angles, believing TV fulfills prophecy and
that satellite TV will evangelize the world, or that the electric church is a genuine
Christian fellowship with its own virtual communion wafers, ministers and songs. Is this
not asking too much from the very limited mediums of TV, radio and the Internet?
Assigning divine significance to technology does not treat it as a simple utilitarian tool,
but raises technology to messianic status. It becomes a sort of gift from the gods that
demands reverence and homage.