Britain’s MPs to discuss religious literacy in the media

May 5, 2016 by

From Lapido Media:

TONIGHT sees the launch of a new All Party Parliamentary Group on Religion and the Media.

Chaired by Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss and moderated by Bishop of Leeds, Rt Revd Nick Baines, it is part of a range of responses to the Living with Difference Report published earlier this year by the Woolf Institute’s Commission on Religion and Belief in Public Life in Britain.

The theme of tonight’s round table is ‘Is there a perceived lack of religious literacy in the media?’ – a question that will be addressed by Lapido Media’s founder Dr Jenny Taylor, who gave evidence to the Commission.

She will say:  ‘It was not until my own eyes as a journalist became religiously attuned that I realized the West had become a menace to the whole world because of its secularist blinkers.

‘The world is full of religion – and we meddle at our peril unless we understand that.

‘Where the media do not ‘get religion’ they pose a serious threat to democracy and ultimately to the well-being of the country, through misinterpretation and bias which governments then feed off.

‘The media tell a nation’s stories. Where there are lacunae in Britain as vast as we have at present, whole communities remain ghostlike, their reality a chimera.’

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