I've been listening to Christian radio for the last several months, part of my willingness to try anything as I strive after holiness (not for, never for my glory but for His). All three of the contemporary Christian music stations that come in clearly, i.e., without static are non-commercial & all three have conducted pledge drives over the last several months. Pledge drives are always annoying, but these were honestly less irksome that the National Public Radio pledge drives I've heard. The biggest difference? I cannot say that this is an N.P.R.-wide practice, but at least on Michigan Radio the pitch is often a scold, an obligation. "Pay for the service you use" is one common formulation. (It does not seem to bother them at Michigan Radio that they are supported by tax dollars of folks who do not listen to N.P.R. at all. Why is is O.K. for them to admonish their listeners to pay for a service those listeners use when they are perfectly comfortable accepting payment from persons who never use the service? Double-dealing knaves!) There is none of this appeal to guilt from the disc jockeys on Family Life Radio, K-Love, & Smile F.M. (I know, the names are regrettable.) We are told over & over again in the left-wing media narrative that Christianity stifles individuals' freedom to live the way they want to live, that it uses guilt & shame to compel individuals to conform to externally imposed standards, & yet here we see the very pushers of that narrative trying to shame individuals into conformity, while the Christians take the more permissive approach, literally saying, "Anything you can give helps. God bless." Pledge drives are annoying, but much less pervasively so than radio advertisements, which are the dregs of our culture, being even more loathsome than television advertisements. I still change the station during Christian radio pledge drives, just as I did during "public" radio pledge drives, but when I'm stuck & the pledge drive is the only option, it is so much less unpleasant to hear the non-N.P.R. pledge drives.
The Rebel Black Dot Wake Up Song of the Day
MxPx, "Yuri Wakes Up Screaming" from the Renaissance E.P. (T.L.A.M.)
Commentary:
"Yuri needs a lot of sleep!
Yuri needs a lot of sleep!
Yuri needs a lot of sleep,
Or he might die!
Or he might die!"
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―Betty White on The Simpsons
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