Religious Media!

Religious channels, be it Islamic or based on Christianity focus only on religion and the whole world means nothing to them! Their target audeince are those who are not interested in other wordly things as well, and they reach out and connect to those human beings that want to know more and learn about their religion. I have seen two religious channels, one was Christian T.V and the other one was Islamic, but i cant recall the name correctly since it was in Arabic.
Viewing these channels, even though it was only once, made me observe how their sole purpose is to preach, show what the people of "their" religion practice and make people more aware about it! They do not care about money, popularity or fame like other media channels! It is not about politics for such channels, instead it is truly about faith, beliefs and "Imaan" (arabic for faith and belief)!!

If someone is genuinely interested in knowing more about a certain religion there are million of ways they can find out, religious books, articles, magazines, radio stations, so why not Television too? This is the best way to get across to us social beings! So... religious channels create a religious mood, enticing their audeince into watching their channel if and only if they want to and are sincerely interetsed in religion and learning more about it.
I agree with the second option, Proffessor Abeer states : They advocate judgement and lead to polarization. All religious channels do, do that! This is just the way it is! If my channel is about Christianity i will seriously not be promoting Islam, or even vice versa! My aim would be to spread Christian beliefs and teachings. It is wrong to degrade any other religion, and they do not do that. Though i have noticed that sometimes Islamic channels have a tone of negativity to other religions. This is very obvious when Islamic scholars are talking alone, and the camera is focused upon them, like a sermon!

One thing i succintly remember watching is a program on a christian channel ,where there is a priest who heals people. He heals all sorts of illnesses and physical disorders. This was one show that was aired on a religious channel to prove that miracles still happen!

Each religion has some basic values and principles, all the religious channels just revolve around those values and principles and run their channels, hoping to teach, preach and spread their religious point of views, to those who are already in their religion, and to those who are not but are interested!

Good readings:
"The rival conceptions of God" by C.S Lewishttp://petermg.com/writings33/5-03_concept.html

"The divine revolution" by Vaclav Havel
http://www.utne.com/issues/1999_88/features/309-1.html