My TV has got religion...

Mar 14, 2008 17:04

My television (or possibly the freeview box) appears to have converted to Christianity. American evangelical Christianity, to be specific. Quite often I'd be watching a channel, switch off the telly and then when I switch it back on again the next day, it has mysteriously changed itself to a digital radio channel (the Prayer Channel or somesuch) ( Read more... )

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*snort* wryelle March 14 2008, 17:47:48 UTC
Nope - still wracking my brains for a non-supernatural explanation. Unless a zealous engineer in the freeview box factory is trying to spread the Gospel by tinkering... Or the Prayer Channel have figured out a way to broadcast something that overrides channel controls...

Naturally I prefer the idea that God is messing with your TV though!

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Re: *snort* pellegrina March 14 2008, 18:37:48 UTC
After the Jerry Falwells and co., I'd have hoped God knew better than to endorse televangelists...

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Re: *snort* wryelle March 14 2008, 19:50:11 UTC
Now I've got that Savage Garden song on the brain. :)

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Re: *snort* eledonecirrhosa March 16 2008, 11:36:32 UTC
Savage Garden song?

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viala_qilarre March 15 2008, 10:40:21 UTC
I have seen some of those American evangelical channels in bored moments late at night. With all possible respect to people who find this style of worship/evangelism (in the tactful words of a dear good friend from Oxford) 'helpful', I would have thought that they were more likely to make people run screaming!

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