Art Vs Religion (1-20-22)

Bryan Ronald Wilson wrote in 1966:

* The technical achievement in itself was sufficient to confer interest and stimulate enthusiasm. Its detachment from the agencies of social control, its competitiveness, and its profit-seeking meant that from the outset it appealed to immediate appetites and emotions. There was never any inbuilt or implicit restraint about what it might offer, and it was not in the service of any particular class, national, political or governmental agency. It was ideologically uncommitted, prepared to test the market to discover what people would pay to see as entertainment, and prepared to defy social conventions and accepted morality, whenever it appeared to be in the interests of profits to do so, and until governmental interference might occur. Thus the entertainment industry—and it became an industry in the full sense only with the development of advanced technical means of presentation—was from the outset a challenge to religion, offering diversion, other reinterpretations of daily life, and competing for the time, attention and money of the public. In its actual content it may be seen as more than an alternative way of spending time, but also as an alternative set of norms and values. It replaced religion’s attempt to awaken public sentiments by offering titillation of private emotions.
In this whole development, and it is necessarily a complex one,
relating to the expansion of literacy and the development of a secular
Press, as well as to the cinema and subsequently to the radio and
television, the Church was steadily losing its near-monopoly, and at
least its dominance, of the media of communication. From the when public communication was largely from the pulpit or by notices
appended to the church door, when intellectual stimulation was
almost necessarily religious exhortation, the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries saw the Church’s influence as a source of information
rapidly eroded as the relative significance and effectiveness of its
channels of communication were reduced. From being a very powerful
voice in the local community, the clergyman became one of several
voices with divergent religious messages, and subsequently competed
further with the increasingly effective voices using the new technical
means of mass communication offering non-religious distractions. https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=141986

Academic: Why there is no way back for religion in the West, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=142143
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