TV News: The Lectionary of Olympianity

Television is the Bible of Olympianity in our day. Not only is it the normative source of our society’s shared beliefs, values, norms, and goals. Not only is it the normative structure of the Olympian personality that smolders darkly inside us all. It is also the source of the Grand Narrative: the master story through which we understand our world and in which we all have our place.

TV: The Bible of Olympianity

The Bible, both Old and New Testaments, is our normative witness to Jesus Christ.
   
Jesus talks to us today. All he says to us today, however, is consistent with what he said to the prophets and apostles yesterday.
   
This means, of course, that to discern and affirm what Jesus is saying to us today, we need to read the Bible. Sadly, we Christians have largely abandoned it.

Witness to Jesus Becomes Morality

Jesus freed us human beings from religion. He freed us from the six false gods of power, from the Olympian worldview based on them, and from the sacred world expressing it. The writers of the New Testament all witness to this.

Gradually, however, their faithful witness to Jesus was subverted and became Christianity.

Not only that. Jesus freed us human beings from morality. Gradually, however, faithful witness to Jesus was subverted and became Christian morality.