After last week's post, I wanted to dive more into this topic and how it actually affects us.  Let’s look at how visual Christian media transmits democratic ideals.  Visual Christian media, especially that created and viewed by believers within a certain faith or belief system, plays an important role in cultural transmission through discussing moral issues. This discussion promotes the voice of the people, a fundamental value of democracy. In his “Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Toward a Democratic Accommodation” Quentin J. Schultze,  “argues that American mass media and the democratic traditions they influence need the leaven of religious believers who use their own media to debate issues overlooked or misunderstood by mainstream media...This "critical moral discourse" is "fundamentally important to the future of democracy.” (351).  Considering complex moral topics, perhaps such as homosexuality, abortion, or racism, from a religious viewpoint pro...