Blue Streak wrote:
This may be a dumb-assed question to ask but why are there so many
fundamentalist Christian broadcasts in English on shortwave?

Many good (and serious) answers else-thread. I'll add that Christianity
is a proselytizing religion, so there is a moral imperative in many
expressions of fundamentalist Christianity to Go Forth And Spread The Word.

Since Islam is also a proselytizing religion, we should expect a fair
amount of similar sorts of shows. In my limited experience, this seems
to be the case. If you hunt around different parts of the world you can
pick up more than a few similar Islamic stations, mostly out of North
and East Africa, and the Middle East. I am, of course, assuming that
these stations provide the same purpose as their Christian counterparts
in spreading The Word. Which might be untrue, since I don't understand
Arabic. The French stations out of North and West Africa certainly
covered much the same ground with respect to the One True Religion.

Many of the strongest Christian stations I pick up are in North America
or English-speaking areas of the northern hemisphere; so easier to pick
up by folks living where those commonly propagate. So, there might be
some self-selecting going on since it is so easy for most of us to hear
these guys. There might be a little bit of preaching to the converted
going on, maybe.
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