Two Stations Won't Air "Book Of Daniel"

[kurto]

Sigh...

"Conservative Christian groups have condemned the depiction of Jesus as blasphemous, accusing the writers of portraying Christ as tolerant of sin in talks with the priest.

Uh oh... A tolerant Jesus? BOYCOTT BOYCOTT

Man... I hope the show is a huge hit. Cause I love watching extremists get their panties in a twist and make issues about nothing.

[miketurner]

This seems more likely a publicity stunt to get people to watch. I got a forwarded e-mail this mourning from the “American Family Association” urging me to call my local NBC station and tell them to not run the show... basically because it is “blasphemy”.
Well, I had seen the commercials for this show. It didn’t look offensive to me... it just didn’t look entertaining. I had no intentions of watching this show. I am sure NBC knew there was little interest for this show, and decided it needed some “buzz” to get it off the ground. And if you tell conservative Christians that you are planning on blasphemy of their Lord... of coarse they are gonna get upset. And thus, this show will have better ratings. I wouldn’t be surprised if the “American Family Association” was created recently by NBC executives.
I might actually watch now, if I’m not doing other things. See, it worked. My expectations are pretty low, though.
PS. If my “conspiracy theory” is wrong, and NBC is not behind this... they should have been. It was a great plan to improve ratings!

[yukoncpa]

This new television series, which begins tonight, was just discussed on the O'reilly Factor. John Kasich was filling in for O'reilly. It's about an Episcopal priest who's addicted to vicodan, who's daughter smokes and sells pot and who's son is having sex with the bishop's daughter.
Kasich opined that the show will probably be trash and Christian bashing. The Washington Post critic said the show tries hard to be offensive. Kasich's guest, a person from T.V. guide magazine said that his magazine's reviewer's liked it and this negative controversy will do wonders for the shows ratings.

[MidGe]

The real problem is that nobody is forced to watch the show, but some would like to force people not to watch it...

Ah well! This is when I object to interference by religion and why I think militant atheism has a need to make itself heard.

It is the thin edge of fascism or totalitorianism.

[Peter666]

They should be able to play the blasphemous Christ show, as long as Christians can air a show that proclaims things such as: its ok to hate gay people and make their lives as miserable as legally possible because their sin cries to heaven for vengeance.

[MidGe]

I have not seen it, but from the review I thought it was about episcopalian priest, their children, drugs etc...

All thing that have been in the news in a much more flagrant and at time unpalatable way as acts performed by various clergy.

Of course, episcopalian, must be the true ones, and their members could not be guilty of misdeeds.

I have seem plenty of shows where the vilain was an homosexual. No problem with that, as long as it doesn't say all homosexuals are vilains or that homosexuality of itself is an issue.

Always impressed by the bitterness of religious apologists. /images/graemlins/smile.gif I guess it is because they know they can't resist sins without a fear element. You could think that all of them, lol, are predisposed then.

[Peter666]

Hatred feels good.

[miketurner]

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They should be able to play the blasphemous Christ show, as long as Christians can air a show that proclaims things such as: its ok to hate gay people and make their lives as miserable as legally possible because their sin cries to heaven for vengeance.

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I must have missed that show. When does it air?

As for Book Of Daniel... I thought it was ok, but by the end, I decided it was just a little too daytime soaps for me. By time the old man was having an affair with the old church lady, I was rolling my eyes... they just tried to hard in my opinion.
I didn’t really find it offensive though, & still think the whole controversy thing was just a publicity stunt. I just don’t think the show is good enough to live too long past the hype.

[andyfox]

I've seen Pat Robertson's show. So such a thing can be proclaimed on the airwaves.

I hand't heard about the show until tonight, when I saw some blurbs on it when I accidentally walked in on Extra or one of those silly shows Mrs. Fox watches. It seemed entertaining. Would seem like a better movie than a series, but I like Aidan Quinn. Too bad his father isn't still around to play the Devil. That would be great TV.

[JackWhite]

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The real problem is that nobody is forced to watch the show, but some would like to force people not to watch it...

Ah well! This is when I object to interference by religion and why I think militant atheism has a need to make itself heard.

It is the thin edge of fascism or totalitorianism.

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I am sure you felt the same when the gay groups didn't want anybody to be able to choose to watch the Dr. Laura Show. That would have been a good time for militant atheism to stand up to those facists.

[KeysrSoze]

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They should be able to play the blasphemous Christ show, as long as Christians can air a show that proclaims things such as: its ok to hate gay people and make their lives as miserable as legally possible because their sin cries to heaven for vengeance.

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There is a show like that though. Its called the 700 club.

[Peter666]

I don't see Pat Robertson or the 700 Club where I live. They do have a daily Christian show but the people on there are always smiling, happy and really goody goody. Is Pat Robertson the OZ of televangelists? Sounds entertaining to me.

[MidGe]

Whoops I got confused here. I thought "the Fight Club"... /images/graemlins/smile.gif Never heard of P Robertson or the 700 club. Is it something like the mile high club? (maybe 700 ppl doing it together?) /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[JackWhite]

Here is a quote from Washington Post Tom Shales review of the Book of Daniel. Shales does not like Christians, so he says this as one who is not offended by anti-Christian material

Shales: "I cannot recall a series in which a greater number of characters seemed so desperately detestable -- a series with a larger population of loathsome dolts. There ought to be a worse punishment than cancellation for a show that tries this hard to be offensive and, even at that crass task, manages to fail."

To put it mildly, Shales hated every minute of this show. I guess the only people watching will be the 2+2ers who will watch if they think it makes Bill Donahue mad.

[kurto]

Unfortunately, I won't be watching it. It didn't look that interesting to me. (too soapy) Honestly, the most interesting thing about the show is its got sum fundies all agitated... THAT is usually good entertainment.

If, they did a reality show where we watched a bunch of fundies watching and reacting to "Book of Daniel"... (like the crazy fundy from that one episode of Trading Spouses who ranted, "I'm a God Warrior")... I would tape every episode, buy the DVD, wear TV shirts.