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RicktheBrick
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The History channel in now running a 10 hour series on the Bible. I have seen a preview of one of the episodes. It is a story about a female named Rahab. So I thought up a more modern version of it. There once was a female Jew who lived in Germany in the late 30's. One night she discovered two Nazi policeman making plans on killing all the Jews in her community. She saw local people patrolling the community so she hid the Nazi police in her home. When it was safe for the Nazi police to leave they gave her a maker so that the police would spare her and her family when they murdered all of the rest of the Jews. After the killings she is seen celebrating with the Nazi police. So who could think this female to be a hero? So why is Rahab a hero when the people being murdered are not Jews? The Bible is barbaric and reading it is a waste of time.
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twilyth
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Oh dear. This is very bad. I thought the History Channel had sunk pretty low years ago when they had so many Hitler and Nazi oriented shows some were calling them the Nazi Channel. But even then, the presentations were at least marginally what could be considered objective, even if sensationalized.
----------------------------------------But this series seems to dispense with even the pretense of being a historically based presentation of events recounted in the bible. Part entertainment, part evangelism , "The Bible" is accompanied by a tremendous commercial push, with trailers in movie theaters and ads across A+E Networks channels, including Lifetime. There are also three books based on the series and a DVD study kit. As Christians who say they believe the Bible is the “living word of God,” Downey and Burnett have partnered with many of the country's biggest churches to promote the production, among them Bishop T.D. Jakes of The Potter's House in Dallas and prominent evangelicals, including Jim Daly of Focus on the Family and Sam Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. The series' website includes lesson plans for pastors who want to incorporate the show into Sunday sermons and study groups.   |
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