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.
Ditto
And he is strange looking....plastic face....
Ping.
Absolutely, 100% correct. Lifetime is the equivelant of the trashy romance pulps of yesteryear. It's geared for the fat housewife eating her bonbons, pretending she is Murphy Brown or Dixie Carter, and whining that her husband isn't as caring and mysterious as Lorenzo Lamas or Paul Reiser.
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New name for the media agenda: Promo-sexual?
Exactly. A quiet little note to the network expressing cool disdain rather than outrage might be OK...they're expecting the outrage, but not ho-hums of boredom. I had a really fun time deflating a PC nutcase who signed on just to screech at some of my comments about the PC police lacking humor. I told him he was adolescent, predictable and just too boring to post here. And he faded away.
Agreed. But who's the kingdom that is going to come over the wall tonight ?
I don't believe anything significant from Bhuddism, Hinduism or Islam, but that doesn't mean I would feel I had license to mock everything the believers of those faiths stand for. First and foremost, this guy is just a jerk.
I have so many fascinating things to do that I never get all done I don't miss TV at all.
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WLBT Jackson Mississippi has a poll on "Daniel"
Go here to vote.
http://www.wlbt.com/default.asp?Scraper=1&pass=1#poll51609
Right now 62% say it shouldn't be shown
Read "More Than A Carpenter" by Josh MacDowell. He proves beyond reasonable doubt that the Resurrection occurred. Please note for the record that MacDowell was a secular humanist who set out to disprove the Resurrection and instead he ended up converting and making a career out of apologetics.
And if the Resurrection occurred...Christianity is true...and if Christianity is true, secular humanism is a myth.
Feel free to provide any "beyond a reasonable doubt" evidence that secular humanism is true.
Promo-sexual. Very good.
"Quirky" is a code word for perverted. Like "cozy" is a realtor's code word for tiny, and "quaint" is a code word for run-down.
"MANY MANY RATINGS TANKHARDIN"
I heard some idiot say it had to have all this anxst in order to have longevity. What about shows like Highway to Heaven or 7th Heaven? They lasted for a long time and didn't make a mockery of Christianity. This is just another assault on the life of Christ.
"Daniel Webster" is not an accidental name either. Frankly this whole thing is way over the top.
Me too, if it isn't on Animal Planet, I probably won't ever see it.
So far it's been:
Rooms To Go
Toyota
Papa John's
Just For Men
Bill Dance Chevrolet (Orlando, Fl dealership)
Our Central Florida NBC affiliate is airing it and these are the advertisers I've seen so far.
Censorship is bad.
People never censor things they agree with.
If you don't like it, don't watch it, its a revolutionary concept.
Direct hit!
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