TV always presents religious people as out of touch with the modern world, do you agree?

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TV always presents religious people as out of touch with the modern world, do you agree?

In this essay I will be considering the ways that television programmes portrays different religious people and will consider whether they are realistic or just stereotypes.

The majority of television programmes watched today is mainly soaps & dramas.

Soaps contain religious people as they are meant to reflect real life and include real-life situations including rape, adultery and teenage pregnancy.

Two soaps that show this are Hollyoaks and Coronation Street.

Coronation street was the most recent to show a teenage pregnancy with Sarah Platt, this is a good topic as Almost 1 million teenagers become pregnant each year, and more than 512,000 give birth.

Hollyoaks however was the first soap to deal with a male rape victim; the episode was so realistic had to be televised at 11 o’clock.

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Both these programmes showed the emotions of the characters very well and also helped the viewers by offering support numbers to phone if needed.

We also find religious people in everyday life that’s why soaps also have religious characters as over 80% of the population believes in God.

In programmes they also show religious ceremonies, Funerals, Christenings, weddings. These ceremonies such as weddings are not just shown as traditional but show wedding receptions and marriage of a forbidden nature, e.g. the registry office wedding of Nick and Leighanne Platt which showed viewers how a couple of love struck teenagers ran ...

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