Francis Foster

Those advertisers are there because that's who the audience is, right?

If you were selling things that were of interest to young people, it would not be a good investment because there's virtually no one under 40 watching those programs.

In fact, getting information from broadcast television is something that younger people just don't do in any appreciable numbers, yeah.

Absolutely.

Right.

And I think the, is it Tyndale is the first major translator of the Bible into English.

And I think he's burnt alive outside the walls of Oxford in 1557, something like this.

Yeah, these people paid with their lives, but they were a very hardy and determined lot.

And they kept insisting on their right to tell people

about their encounter with God and their views thereby, which were heterodox.

And the more that the state tried to stamp down on them, the more people who didn't share their views developed some sympathy for them.

And also, it made people question things that had not been questioned before.

And this is hard for us to fully imagine because we are living in a post-religious world, especially among educated people.

But religion was a deadly serious subject in the 16th, 17th, 1800s.

And the idea that your baptism might be illegitimate and then you might therefore not be saved and therefore your death might be meaningless and you might just disappear when you die was horrifying.

Because if your death is meaningless in this time period, your life is meaningless.

And if you take away someone's meaning, you might as well have ripped out their spine.

So these were highly fraught issues.

And the idea that because it's such an important and personal issue, you as a matter of conscience have the right to explore your connection to the divine and therefore your connection to the real world as well.

And I'm not saying the divine world isn't real.