Posted on 12/01/2007 5:01:01 PM PST by Coleus
Canada's government funded National Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has offered its annual Christmas season refutation of Christianity, this year in the form of a documentary entitled, "The Pagan Christ" based on the book of the same name by popular Canadian liberal "theologian" Tom Harpur. The CBC webpage for the documentary asks, "So, what if it could be proven that Jesus never existed? What if there was evidence that every word of the New Testament - the cornerstone of Christianity - is based on myth and metaphor?" The idea was popularized by radical feminist and lesbian writers like the self-styled "witch" Miriam Simos, who goes by the nom de plume of "Starhawk", and is one of the foremost voices of ecofeminism. These writers were instrumental in founding a "goddess" worshipping neo-paganism in the 1970's and '80's that was zealously anti-Christian and particularly hostile to Catholicism and has grown in popularity in Canada and the US.
Harpur continues this tradition in his book and the CBC takes up the cause in the documentary saying, "During his research, Harpur discovered that the New Testament is wholly based on Egyptian mythology, that Jesus Christ never lived, and that - indeed - the text was always meant to be read allegorically. It was the founders of the Church who duped the world into taking a literal approach to the scriptures." Harpur asserts that it is Christianity's "blind faith in [Biblical] literalism" that accounts for the impending demise of Christianity. The promotional page for the book says, "What began as a universal belief system has become a ritualistic institution headed by ultraconservative literalists."
The taxpayer-funded CBC has made no secret of its institutionalized dislike of biblical Christianity and conservative Christians. While self-identified Christians continue to make up about 70 per cent of Canada's population, the CBC has for years produced annual attacks on Christian beliefs in the form of such documentaries as The Pagan Christ. So obvious is the CBC's dislike of Catholicism that the National Post blasted "Mothercorp" for its blatant biases in its coverage of Pope John Paul II's visit to Toronto for World Youth Day 2002. The Post cited the CBC's lengthy coverage of the "marginal story of anti-Catholic political activism as though it were of roughly equal scale and importance," as the visit of the spiritual leader of the world's billion Catholics.
The Post wrote, that the phenomenon of thousands of pilgrims responding to a papal invitation to deepen their spiritual lives, "does not compute in the mind of those middle aged bien pensants for whom the idea of moral certainty is alien and traditional institutional religion abhorrent." In April 2005, on the day of the election to the papacy of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, CBC radio host Michael Enright hosted anti-Catholic "Catholic" New Times editor and Catholic school teacher Ted Schmidt to comment. Schmidt called Cardinal Ratzinger, the "great defect" of Pope John Paul II's papacy.
In May this year, CBC television offered a show depicting the Catholic Mass as a backdrop for drug and gang-related activities, including the use of the consecrated Host, that Catholics believe is literally the body and blood of Christ, as a vehicle for LSD. Over the years, the CBC has promoted euthanasia, abortion, same-sex marriage, recreational adultery, embryonic stem cell research and has been particularly venomous towards the pro-life movement. In 1999 Campaign Life Coalition, Canada's leading pro-life organization, made a presentation to a Parliamentary committee citing the CBC's persistent anti-pro-life bias.
CLC told Parliamentarians that news coverage by the CBC "is biased against pro-life people of Canada". They asked that the government "examine the role the CBC plays in influencing Canadians with presentations which incorrectly portray the pro-life message and unfairly depict pro-life individuals"
Too “smart” for his own good. Even your most ardent anti-Christian zealot will acknowledge that Christ existed—only deny his Deity. When you take it upon yourself to deny even his existence, then you put yourself in the same category as those who claim the Earth is flat.
Christ didn’t exist? Tell that to the apostles, who went to their deaths for preaching the words of there friend who they just, according to this guy, imagined.
A Canadian buddy of mine sent me an email cartoon from a Canadian “friend” after The Passion movie opened, showing a theater patron eating hosts out of a popcorn bag. Something strange a’stirin in Canada the last decade or so.
As long as the non-believers of Christ believe in Muhammad or his existence, every thing will be fine and they will be praised for their works.
We christians are very tolerant.
just wait until Christmas; they’ll be coming out of the woodwork by then, re-starting their rumors that His bones have been found along with mary magdalene’s in an underground tomb somewhere. (unless, of course, there are no more manger displays; their objective to begin with.)
(obnoxious punks)
‘The idea was popularized by radical feminist and lesbian writers like the self-styled “witch” Miriam Simos, who goes by the nom de plume of “Starhawk”’
The defense rests...
God laughs last.
And to think that in the past the CBC actually had many Christian shows. No more. They are an embarrassment to all decent people. To make it worse, they squeeze a billion dollars a year of our tax money to churn out shows like “The Little Mosque on the Prairie” and “stars” like Rick Mercer an avowed America-Hater. We should have pulled the plug on these communists years ago.
As an Alaskan I have traveled through Canada many times. I despise NPR with a passion, but it doesn’t come across nearly as out in the weeds leftist and antichrist as CBC. CBC gives me the creeps. I don’t know how Canadians endure it.
to bad,
they used to burn someone like this for heresy.
I’ve seen this kind of intense antichristian focus before. People get so bent out of shape over Christ that they throw out all of recorded history.
Historia Will Durant: “In the enthusiasm of its discoveries the Higher Criticism has applied to the New Testament tests of authenticity so severe that by them a hundred ancient worthies—e.g., Hammurabi, David, Socrates—would fade into legend. Despite the prejudices and theological preconceptions of the evangelists, they record many incidents that mere inventors would have concealed—the competition of the apostles for high places in the Kingdom, their flight after Jesus’ arrest, Peter’s denial . . . No one reading these scenes can doubt the reality of the figure behind them.”
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Why the smart money is on Duncan Hunter
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Posted on 11/15/2007 3:43:17 AM PST by Kevmo
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