An investigation of the methods for advocating the Christian Zionism - 2

Courses on the study of Bible in the "Liberty University" shows the courses, including: The Jewish history, the Old and New Testament, the Hebrew language and literature, Israel and its current situation.
The university has a number of Jewish scholars and professors such as: Harvey Hartman, educated in Israel and has joined their faculty. Jerry Falwell says about the university: "Many of the leaders of the next generation are trained in it." In addition to the university, a large number of primary and secondary schools also have been established and by some statistics about the numbers, they are up to ten thousand. However, Falwell, in 1980, said that the number was about eighteen thousands. Education at these schools is mainly based on the beliefs of fundamentalist Christian Zionism. Other activities by the Baptist Church centers and associations are in support of youth and children, and activities like forming summer camps, supporting and helping drug addicts, women who are pregnant illicitly ..., in this area, more than two thousands of employees operate in these centers.
Rev. Falwell started the most important television programs as "hourly with Gospel Time" through 392 television transmitters and five radio transmitters, which is broadcast every day around the United States. In 1978, the program had about sixty million dollars over five million and six hundred thousand of its viewers (5/600/00) the estimated per month, but Jerry Falwell is of the opinion that the program has about seventeen to twenty-five million people.
There is, however, another TV program which he calls "Jerry Falwell directly on the waves," which is broadcast every week on Sunday night and 34 million families watch it.
Falwell has always asserted through Mainstream churches that "the reestablishment of the Jewish state, from the viewpoint of the fundamentalist Christians is regarded the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies. Thus, every American must be obliged on the premise that all his efforts must be applied to the full support of Israel."
In 1979, with the establishment of political and non-religious organization which was called the "moral majority," he pursued his most important programs and activities through it. The organization, published numerous books and publications, the most important of which is a monthly report entitled "Report of the moral majority." The magazine is sent every month for 11.5 million US subscribers as well as members of Congress and governors of 82 states and thousands of religious dignitaries and media barons and heads of news channels. The cost of making each issue of this report is about one million and two hundred thousand dollars.
The goals and programs of the "moral majority" are the support of the Zionist regime. His broad and coherent organization by their organizations and their attractive and popular programs has been able to largely affect the public opinion in America.
According to The New York Times, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson's American TV programs are more attractive and popular than the pornographic magazines and videos in the US. Even the viewers of the programs are more in number than the readers of the Time magazine and Newsweek and the Washington Post and New York Times and Los Angeles Times.
It also goes without saying that the range of activities of a passionate adventurer such as Falwell, having all facilities and close links with Israel and with communications with the politicians and the ideas of radical fundamentalism, cannot be limited to things we alluded to.
Also on the eighth of October 2002, over sixty-minute television programs (CBS) broadcast many coordinated programs against the Prophet of Islam (Peace be upon him) calling the prophet the harbinger of the merciful terrorism!

Bishop Patrick Robertson

He was one of the first men of the fundamentalist Church that realized the necessity and importance of "the Church of television", in 1961 as a transmitter of television City (Portsmouth) in Virginia purchased that are already and he’s now using these satellite networks to send his programs to a wide range of applications on radio and television across the United States and other countries.
He has a plurality of network television viewers of the Church in the United States of America which is the fourth largest television network as considered by the viewers. The net income of his business in the year 1985 was about $ 233 million. He has four television transmitters and a cable channel and a demo program called seven associations that can be watched throughout the United States and most countries in the world.
Robertson is the second priest in the history of the United States who like Jaycee Jackson who, in 1984, became a candidate for the presidential elections, tried in 1988 to become a candidate for this position.
In 1977, he established a private university called C.BN that accepts students in social communication, science, education, business, law, culture and education, and biblical studies up to the Master’s Degrees.
He always emphasized the fact that (Israel is the greatest nation of God), he knows the Arabs as enemies of God and says: As long as the establishment of the State of Israel belongs to the will of God, respect for the justice for the Palestinians is meaningless.
On the other hand, to try to draw attention of the Zionists, he seems to say that Muslims are even worse than the Nazis and uses his warning to the Jews saying that Muslims have a lot of dangers and he has openly declared that Adolf Hitler was certainly a villain, but what Muslims are trying to do against the Jews is worse.

Bishop George Otis

He is the most prominent figure of Christian Zionism in the early seventies (of the twentieth century) known through television Churches in California, attempting to run the program.
After Israel invaded southern Lebanon in the summer of 1978 and occupied parts of the country and Saad Haddad, an officer in the rebel army was stationed there George Otis called the region as a "free Lebanon" in ninth September 1979 AD. He established a radio transmitter in the area known as the "the safe voice” so that in addition to news and political analysis and the statement of Saad Haddad, the idea of Christian Zionism was also released in the area.
Otis in his remarks on Israel's role in the establishment of the radio transmitter, said:
The action of Israel was a miracle, no one could imagine that one day the Jews would help us establish a Christian transmitter?

Bishop Michael Evans

He alone among his peers was born to a Jewish mother and a Christian fundamentalist, above all, emphasizing the link with Israel and the United States of America and stimulated Israel for a mutual collaboration, claiming that God himself has a divine mission which he knows. He has close ties with the leaders of Israel and, in two years, he succeeded to visit Menachem Begin, the Israeli prime minister for nine times.
His most famous television program is "Israel is the key to the survival of America" in which usually the prominent figures of Zionism (Christian and Jewish) are invited, and the impact and critical role of Israel is discussed among the intellectuals and the political situation and the fate of the United States of America is also debated with regard to Israel.
Every day this program is broadcast for an hour through fifty television transmitters and covers more than 25 states of America (1985).
Evans has his programs, sometimes in Hebrew, and calls himself the chief of the population known as the Israel's lovers.
In August 1984, by the Church of television and periodicals and media outlets America, he issued a statement in which the United States caused the economic problems in Israel, and was criticized and blamed, because the advice and encouragement of the United States of America about the evacuation of the Sinai peninsula by Israel, led to damages for this regime by about seven billion and one hundred million dollars which Israel suffered. While Israel has always defended the interests of America in the Middle East.
Evans has broadcast a TV movie called "Jerusalem, DC" and the current situation of the Jews, Israel and Jerusalem and the visible signs of the end of the “Armageddon war” are introduced and associated by this movies.
As can be seen in the film, letters USA that are the first letters of the name of the United States of America is shown in bold alphabet in the word Jerusalem to highlighted and show that America is inextricably bound to Jerusalem and does not separate from it.
The two letters D & C stand for (David’s Capital) which means the capital of David to form in the American mind a relationship between the capital of America (Washington, DC) and (Jerusalem DC).

Bishop Jimmy Swaggert

He is one of the most prominent figures of the Christian Zionist movement whose preaching are broadcast by the television network, and has nearly nine million viewers and on Sundays the number reaches 9.5 million. This figure makes up a tenth of television viewers in the United States.
Swaggart’s programs have a political nature and a budget of twenty million dollars runs at the frequency of the world such as South Africa, the Philippines and South Korea where his programs are visible. His teaching curriculum is called "Lessons of the word" is broadcast every Sunday morning runs with a particular manner when giving lessons and lectures he speaks, laughs, beats on the floor, jumps madly, and hold the microphone in hand and along the way as he walks, he speaks about the age of nuclear war and the advent of Christ and the need to protect and support Israel during the Armageddon war.

Bishop Billy Graham

"He was the most prominent religious leaders in the seventies in America. He believed that there is a special relationship between God and the Jews of Israel. "One of his actions was to write the scenario and produced a film called" Land of God "in 1975, the Zionist Organization" Jewish Committee of America "with that of time Israel has been established, the film's biggest technical project was in accordance with the policies of this regime. That is why the award of the "common religion" for his role in supporting and confirmed Israel had been presented to him.
The film is based on the promise of the land of Palestine to Israel by God. In the film, some scenes of the artificial prosperity of cities and deserts monument are depicted. The film is the first US interpretation of the establishment of the Zionist regime and explains it very simple and in a language accessible to everyone’s understanding. The film has been made in a way that any US citizen can easily understand its message.
It is worth recalling that more than twenty million Americans watched the film. Bill Graham knew the victory in the June 1967 war of Israel against the Arabs as the accuracy of the Old Testament and its authenticity.
The magazine “Christianity Today” which is affiliated with Billy Graham, on 21 July 1967 wrote: Now, after two thousand years, for the first time, Jerusalem is entirely in the hands of the Jews. This makes the faithful readers of the Torah to be renewed and strengthened in the accuracy of the content of this book.

The television Church

The fundamental church of America tried to adopt modern methods of propaganda to attract more people to their side and using satellite TV this church has made numerous efforts to take the level of the advertising ranges more widespread and beyond the United States.
An American citizen, while resting in his home or while he was lying on his bed, could participate in the television Church prayer ceremony and other religious programs without going to church. With his or her meager subscription to this church, in addition to the use of such programs, he also receives various publications. This publication contains not only recommendations and religious ethics, but all the other cases that are attractive to people.
Of elections and political issues, taxes, abortion, the role of women, prayer in schools and family, nuclear war, communism and the approval and support of the policies of Israel, as God's satisfaction.
The surveys and polls of the Gallup Institute have shown that about seventy million Americans make use of the Network "television Church» and their numbers reaches 104 transmitters. In addition, one thousand and six cable television channels offer Christian programs.
On the other hand, the number of the publishers who publish Christian books is about 1300 and seven thousand books sales have the duty of the distribution and sales of these books published by them for over three billion dollars a year. The TV Church, with its charming church, attracts different kinds of people, of various ages, and even children are engaged. Studies have shown that 30% of viewers of the "Hour of Gospel Time" by Bishop Jerry Falwell are indeed children.
In order to attract more viewers, the television Church is not just limited to broadcasting various programs through radio and television transmitters alone, but also buys other attractive programs from the broadcasting networks with numerous audiences, tries to keep the scope of its acceptance by the members of the public. The influence of television programs of the Church thought on the character of American citizens is so much that after press which is widely known as the fourth pivots, it has also been considered the fifth pivot.
The research institute of Gallup in 1981 reported that in a month, about 52 million Americans view, usually one or more times, the TV church. The figure in 1983 was more than six million people and in 1984 to 25 million a week.
Whatever the case, what is certain is that the TV program, in the eighties, experienced the development of quantitative and qualitative points that artists as a new phenomenon in everyday life of the people of America are imported. The sender of the television stations in 1985 was over 1500 stations. In addition to the information that the magazine “Christianity Today” has provided in collaboration with the Institute of Gallup in 1980, 26% of the viewers of the television Church dedicate more than 10% of their income to support and strengthen the audio and visual program of the TV Church.
The data indicate that 85% of listeners and viewers of the Church media turned to the field of religion by the plans of the church.
In addition, the information adds that: the annual revenues of the churches from donations from the supporters is more than a billion dollars which seems that if we add the revenues from advertising and other things, the figure reaches two billion dollars a year.
Newer studies indicate that in America, the average time that high school students spend in front of TV is more time they attend school, but adults spend half of their leisure time to spend watching television. Meanwhile, Billy Graham Bishop program is the oldest religious programs and by the title "the time of decision”, it was broadcast since 1950 and is carried out by radio and television stations. The program which is called the "Bible study" is also spread by a thousand radio stations in the world, and the daily program "Day of Discovery" has seven million viewers.
Pat Robertson program called "the seven hundred Club" around the world, has more than a million viewers. The CBN television network also broadcasts these programs in sixty countries and in forty different languages plays. James Dobson’s organization runs a radio program which is entitled as "care for family," which is broadcast from eight different stations, with about $ 114 million annual cost while about five million people a week listen to the program.
In addition to the well-known figures of Christian Zionism, a host of diverse applications of religious fundamentalists is held in the United States continuously by eight hundred pastors through more than a thousand of audio and visual media.
The Christian fundamentalists in the United States, in addition to a special advertising message that are spread by the television Church which are broadcast by radio, cassettes, CDs, computer games, the Internet, books, magazines, and various publications, there are also other forms of propaganda spread around on shirts, hats, kitchen furniture, travel goods that are used as well to fulfill this duty.

An investigation of the media tools used by the church

Priests make use of various instruments and especially the mass media to promote their evangelism. It must be said that the communication links between media and religion has been established for a long time and, in this regard, the first stories of myths and painting lines carved on the walls are such examples of communication strategies as used by religions. Writing the Torah was the initiator of thousands of years of this link between the Judeo-Christian traditions and communications. The first radio broadcast (on Christmas Eve, 1906) was related to a religious radio station, from the perspective of many Christian scholars, this is strengthening the relationship between media and religion. Now, we start to check each of the media tool used by the Christian Zionist propaganda tools.

Television

Bobby Alexander examines television from the angle of religious preaching and ceremonies and goes on to argue that the audiences of television sermons use these programs to meet their social needs through a religious ceremony which is held throughout the programs. He expresses his claims by a careful study of the following four programs:
Jerry Falwell’s program entitled "Gospel hours of the old days", Pat Robertson's "700 Club" program, Jimmy Swaggart’s program and Jim and Tommy Becker program entitled "Club P.T.L.".
In any case, he says that participation in religious ceremonies through programs and also the features of the participation in such events create in the viewers a deeper sense of solidarity to avoid social marginalization. This is the same thing that conservative Christians in the United States feel that they must get. In other words, having participation in the program "helps the viewers with their religion, religious identity and their religious groups in response to the opposition of the threats against them which is posed by the very secular American society which is the main body of the community and, hence they legitimize their religion and get credit from it." Now this is a serious question as to how and why watching these programs have such an impact on the audience?
A group of subjects who were selected from among the students had watched four of these television preachers and according to various estimates based relational intimacy, they had recorded points that were related to similarity in depth, direct relationship, attachment and the acceptance, and trust in the researchers. There was a positive correlation between the intimacy and desire to meet the financial demands of the group.
If the audience has a strong understanding with the television preacher, they identify more with the dimensions of the relationship when watching the program. By increasing the hours watching the TV programs, the social learning relationship between the preacher and the audience is further developed. Therefore, it is more likely for the audience to buy the products offered by the preacher's or the contribute financially to program.
Interestingly, the impact of television on the Christian fundamentalists on the issue of abortion, the death penalty and gay marriage has emerged in a stronger shape.

Radio

Researchers continue to study the history of religious radio programs. In this study, the activity of Father Charles Coughlin, who was a controversial figure, on the radio in the United States was investigated. Since 1926, he began his activity and continued until he was forced into silence by the Catholic Church in 1942.
Coughlin's religious message was coupled with a message that was more political in nature and firstly uses his radio program to support President Franklin Roosevelt and his policies during the recession and then used to attack his policy. And he went so far as to organize a rival political party.
Coughlin was successful in forming the network of independent stations to broadcast its programs and increased his influence in the United States. In the early days of radio activity, Coughlin began to create a new kind of public figure and helped the public discourse. He proposed his political, economic and even religious thought by the modern commercial techniques, which is a necessary trick for the consumerism culture of the United States.