[chicagolady]

PETER JENNINGS HAS IT ALL WRONG PING.

[chicagolady]

PING ALERT!

[Just mythoughts]

""Jennings repeatedly refers to 'the Jesus movement' as if it were just another political party or faction," Focus on the Family's Tom Neven writes in his review of the special. "They also pit Paul against Jesus, as if the apostle taught things that contradicted Jesus, and some refer to Paul as 'the founder of Christianity.' " "


Secularism is a religion and those who are secularist oppose Christianity. For some it will take Christ Himself to open their eyes, and then some will still not follow Christ.

Christ "fits" the profile of a "right wing extremist" and He was put to death. Christians should not expect better treatment than Christ received.

[Labyrinthos]

Perhaps the easiest way to show protest would have been not watch the show in the first place, because the people who pay the bills -- the sponsors -- don't care whether you like or hate the program as long as you watch it.

[GirlShortstop]

PETER JENNINGS HAS IT ALL WRONG PING.

Now what's wrong with me.... why didn't my jaw drop wide open?!  :-)  A note to ABC would be worthwhile despite the boycott of this production.  Thank you for the ping chicagolady!
FReegards.

[chicagolady]

PING.

[Desdemona]

Didn't watch it. Didn't have any intention of watching it.

Is there a transcript available anywhere to use for rebuttal?

[smith288]

Apparently, to Peter Jennings and the "thinkers" on his show say that Christianity mainly broke from Judaism because of circumcision. Paul was an ugly twit and none of Jesus original followers liked him.

Well, on to Islam for me then! Petah has spoken.

[Savage Beast]

Jennings built a career on telegenicity. He looks good on TV. As far as I can tell, that's all he had, that and a talent for building a career on telegenicity.

Some people are dumb enough to mistake telegenicity for something else--like wisdom, intelligence, sound judgment, even heroism and greatness.

Evidently many people are.

[vandykelastone]

Bishop Spong!!!BISHOP SPONG??? Who does ABC believe it is kidding? Certainly not the Freepers.

[syriacus]

The other day Jennings didn't have an answer for Larry King's question (paraphrased), "Why did Saul change his name to Paul."

I thought that was odd.

[hawkaw]

I am not a big fan of Jennings and I wish the Americans would export him back to my country, Canada. He has no right to make the commentary about Bush43 that he does on that the news casts for that major American Network. That really annoys the he!! out of me.

However in the USA and Canada people have the right to hold and express their points of view on religion. There are various different types of Christianity if memory serves. I really don't need a specific religion or religious group to get by in life (ie. I don't need someone telling me what to do). But I do respect people who believe in Jesus Christ etc. just like I respect those who believe in the Jewish faith and other faiths.

So I guess when it comes to this show that Jennings hosted, (whether he has it all wrong or not) I respect what the people had to say and I am really not all that cranked up about it since ALL people have the right to holds and offer their beliefs.

[genefromjersey]

I'll skip over the theology-(That's a matter for people of differing views to debate) - but the stupid "music" was totally inappropriate,regardless of one's beliefs !!

Can anyone imagine doing a presentation on Buddha,Mohammed,or Moses using such a sound track ?

The message here seemed to be : "We are going to spend 3 hours (of which about an hour will be commercial interruptions) trashing and trivializing the beliefs of a large segment of our viewing audience-and we're going to have the cojones to claim we're honoring Easter."

[MEGoody]

Peter Jennings is an idiot. Surprised so many haven't figured that out yet.

[MizSterious]

I almost hate to write on this one. I wouldn't want them to think they had one more viewer than they had.

[pray boy]

To ABC


Why am I not surprised?

Again we parade the "scholars" in front of the TV camera. And again they are scholars with an axe to grind.

Mr. Jennings has a beef with Christians, just like Joseph Goebbels had a beef with the Jews.

"Propaganda has only one object - to conquer the masses. Every means that furthers this aim is good; every means that hinders it is bad."

[aruanan]

Here you go. The part with links intact:

• To call or send an e-mail to ABC, click here.

• You also can express your displeasure to the executives at your local ABC affiliate -- in fact, that might be the most effective way to protest. To find contact information, including phone and fax numbers and an easy-to-use e-mail form, click here and then type your ZIP code into the space provided.

[reed_inthe_wind]

I tuned in just as the focus shifted to Paul. I learned that Christianity means anything you want it to. Paul had no concept of dogma, and either should we. Why, it is perfectly right for all Christians to be divided and separated on every topic. After all, what is truth? Gee willikers ABC, thanks for untying my bound hands it feels so good.

[AD from SpringBay]

It's called deconstruction and it's an academic process by which you can make things mean nothing. Since the success of The Passion we'll see even more of this. For example, - how many Law & Order criminals have some stripe of perverted Christianity in them. Or where, as a history lesson, are all the people concerned about violence in our movies? Were they among the casualties caused by the nasty Mel Gibson movie?

[GailA]

Tthe left are pulling out all the hate GOD & JESUS stops along with the hate Bush ones.

Jesus scares the day lights out of them

I didn't watch it...knew if peter jennings had anything to do with it it would be a liberal hit piece.

Tune out, turn off, hit them in their pockets...abc, cbs, nbc, holywierd purveyors of filth and lies.

[tang-soo]

I watched it in the background while I worked on some material for a Bible study. Just a few things I noticed ...

A claim was made by Pastor Jennings that Paul was greek for the name Saul - huh? never heard that before.

One of the more horrible sections focused on Christ praying in the garden. "They read the passage Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me." and left out the following clause "yet not my will, but yours be done." This implied Christ was only looking for a way out - rather than being obedient to His Father. By the way, I believe it's possible that the cup Christ was praying about was the eventual seperation from His eternal Father and not neccessarily the physical death - but that's another topic.

And of course, the nonsense about the "gospel of thomas". christ the "zen master". Never talks about the diety of Christ or the plan of salvation - yet it gets held up because it has the word "gospel" in its title.

There was one guy who implied the letters by Paul were in err because Paul (as a human) was prone to error. Guess this guy never heard what the word "Inspired" means.

I did notice the only time someone with a conservative bent was portrayed, it was the "god hates f*gs" idiots. That and the silly Pauline parade and the head bounce story (three times) seemed to serve its purpose for the reverend jennings of making Christians look silly.

I thought the music was really distracting and not appropriate at all.