Posted on 01/06/2006 2:56:53 PM PST by wagglebee
Three Kansas NBC affiliates have announced they will not be carrying NBC’s "The Book of Daniel.” KSNG in Garden City, KSNC in Great Bend and KSNK in Oberlin have responded to community concern and will not air the program.
They join KNSW-TV in Wichita, Kan., KARK-TV in Little Rock, Ark. and WTWO in Terre Haute, Ind., in refusing to carry NBC’s new series.
American Family Association (AFA) says that NBC has received more than 600,000 emails protesting the program.
After viewing the first episode at WBIR in Knoxville, several religious leaders gave their views on the program. Brian Kearns, minister at Lighthouse Christian Church, said, "I think it’s very demeaning to Christianity. It’s an assault on the Christian faith.”
Rev. Tom Seay of the Bearden United Methodist Church, described it as "just a pretty sorry piece of work.” Dale Powers of the Catholic Diocese of Knoxville said "You’re portraying something as normal that is just absurd.” And Rev. John Stuart said, "What the show has done is demean my faith. You’ve diminished the person I worship ... you’ve wounded me.”
Donald E. Wildmon, chairman of AFA, said NBC is running the program despite the loss of millions of dollars in advertising revenue. "Advertisers are shying away from the program,” Wildmon stated. "But NBC’s hostility to Christians and Christianity runs deep.”
The program’s main characters include Daniel Webster, a drug-addicted Episcopal priest; his alcoholic wife; his son, a 23-year-old homosexual Republican; his daughter, a 16-year-old drug dealer; a 16-year-old adopted son who is having sex with the bishop's daughter; his lesbian secretary who is sleeping with his sister-in-law; and a very unconventional white-robed, bearded Jesus who reassures the priest that his drug-dealing daughter and promiscuous son are good kids.
According to media reports, it is written by Jack Kenny, a practicing homosexual, who describes himself as being "in Catholic recovery,” interested in Buddhist teachings about reincarnation, and not sure exactly how he defines God and/or Jesus. "I don't necessarily know that all the myth surrounding him (Jesus) is true,” he said.
Well, maybe I can clear this up for him:
1. Homosexuality is a sin.
2. Secular humanism is the myth, not Christianity.
3. He is probably going to Hell.
Why bother boycotting it? The reviews are lousy, and it could finish NBC as a network. Let them fail, don't give them more publicity.
Fox News has been promoting it all day.....
Good news! More NBC affiliates are dropping the blasphemous, pro-homosexual, morally depraved "Book of Daniel."
"2. Secular humanism is the myth, not Christianity."
Prove it.
And yet, WBIR (mentioned above) decided to air it anyway. Here is a copy of my signed email to the General Manager:
"Re: Book of Daniel
What was the point of the poll and asking the viewership for our opinions, only to disregard the results? It is my understanding some 60% of roughly 6,000 respondents stated they were offended by the promos and didn't want it to air locally.
Turning off the t.v. or changing channels don't seem to be very effective in swaying programming locally or nationally. The larger issue is that there seems to be an open season on Christian beliefs in the entertainment community. Make no mistake, I do "vote" with my dollar when going to the movies or buying products by sponsors of television shows. Frankly, if the characters were changed to a Muslim cleric's family or a rabbi's family or a Buddist monk's family, I would be just as disgusted. Hollywood calls this genre edgy and reflective of our culture. God help us if this is true. Do you remember in history class how during the rise of the Nazi propaganda machine Jews and their beliefs were mocked (for German entertainment) in much same way. It was a very subtle (albeit, increasingly unsubtle) method of acclimating the German society against the Jews that went unchecked.
There are, at this time (2 pm Friday), already six stations that have declined to air the Book of Daniel. I'm so very disappointed with your decision."
I presume then that you agree with my statements in numbers 1 and 3?
To hell with this show.
I know that my childhood friend up in Vermont will most likely be watching it. Since she converted to Judaism, and her husband's ex was a Deacon in the Episcopal Church, and said ex is a certified loonie, she will watch the show to laugh at my faith, and those in it, as well as at this program.
I am not thrilled. At least she had the manners to NOT ask me about it today. I plan on not discussing it with her at all. It's another one of those topics that when she brings it up, I will have a deaf eat.
However, I wrote an email to the director of programs for the local affiliate of NBC in Panama City, WVHG, and amazingly, he wrote back the nicest email, asking me to simply watch it, and if I did, to let him know. I had admitted that I only knew of the show by what I had read, and that I didn't intend to watch it all, ever.
He was polite, sincere and honored my beliefs, since I am an Episcopalian and am especially wary of any show coming out of TV-land or Hollyweird that points it's pen and/or actors at my faith.
May we all hope for a quick death for this thing?
The writing is on the wall for "The Book of Daniel."
;)
I agree. Their promotion of vice and blasphemy is so transparent that I hope - I HOPE - that more and more people are "getting it".
I threw my TV away years ago. I also don't sprinkle my food with rat poison.
Just saw Bill McCuddy talking it up on John Gibson's show. Said that stations shouldn't refuse to show it, it's a really good show, let people make up their own minds, yada, yada, yada. I wanted to slap him :-(
"Since she converted to Judaism, and her husband's ex was a Deacon in the Episcopal Church, and said ex is a certified loonie, she will watch the show to laugh at my faith, and those in it, as well as at this program."
Huh?
I think it's actually FROM hell...
Why, of all programs out there, did they go with this one? What were they thinking at NBC? Surely they test this stuff before putting it on the air - or perhaps not.
And conversely, if advertisers want to sell their wares to consumers in the red bits, maybe they should think about doing what they used to do in the good old days of TV and sponsoring their own shows. Then they could better control the contents instead of leaving it to Hollyweird to decide what everyone else should want to see.
Nuff said.
McCuddy has been chirping like this all day.....thank goodness for mute!
LOL!!!! LMAO!!!! Laying it on a little thick, doncha think??? LOL! I swear I'm in tears.
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