Postaman talks about the religion show in TV. He claims that TV changes everything including religion into an entertainment. He gives some examples like Pat Roberson preacher in 700 club on the religious TV show. Postman claims that TV has favoring theatrical, emotional effect and those religious shows also using these effects on the public, eventually everything becomes an entertainment. Postman also claims that what is seen on television could be transformed into something else, meaning that the original meaning to convey would be delivered differently. Postman talks about a condolence card, how the meaning of card will be different comparing sending it by mail and directly presenting it with a word by face to face. Postman also claims that religious TV show features sparkling stages, fantastic displays, etc. far from the holiness of synagogue. Also Postman claims that TV screen itself has psychology power leading to secularism. Whenever people watch TV screen, their memories are filled with worldly things, commercials, entertainment and they know they can always change channels to other TV shows.

However, ironically, Billy Graham wrote, “Television is the most powerful tool of communication ever devised by man. Each of my prime-time ‘specials’ is now carried by nearly 300 stations across the U.S. and Canada, so that in a single telecast I preach to millions more than Christ did in his lifetime.”(postman 118)

Pat Robertson added , “To say that the church shouldn’t be involved with television is utter folly. The needs are the same, the message is the same, but the delivery can change….It would be folly for the church not to get involved with the most formative force in America.”(Postman 118).

The followings are Postman’s quotes, I strongly agree.

”Television’s strongest point is that it brings personalities into our hearts, not abstractions into our heads.”(Postman123)

“I think it both fair and obvious to say that on television, God is a vague and subordinate character. Though His name is invoked repeatedly, the concreteness and persistence of the image of the preacher carries the clear message that it is he, not He, who must be worshipped.” (Postman122)

“Television is, after all, a form of graven imagery far more alluring than a golden calf”(Postman 123)

“This state of affairs, which indeed is equaled nowhere else in the world, can properly be called mass culture; its promoters are neither the masses nor their entertainers, but are those who try to entertain the masses with what once was an authentic object of culture, or to persuade them that Hamlet can be as entertaining as My Fair Lady, and educational as well. The danger of mass education is precisely that it may become very entertaining indeed; there are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say”(Postman 123-124)