Posted on 09/12/2006 6:41:27 PM PDT by blam
BBC did not know of 9/11 film's link to religious right
David Leigh
Wednesday September 13, 2006
The Guardian (UK)
The BBC broadcast a controversial docu-drama, The Path to 9/11, this week without realising that it had been made by a member of the US religious right. The three-hour programme, shown over two nights on BBC2 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attack on the twin towers, was purchased from ABC, a subsidiary of Disney. At the last minute the US television company was forced to re-edit sequences after claims of distortion from former president Bill Clinton and members of his administration.
A BBC spokesman said the organisation did not vet film-makers on their political or religious beliefs.
The film's director, David Cunningham, is active in Youth With a Mission (Ywam), a fundamentalist evangelical organisation founded by his father, Loren Cunningham. According to its publications, the group believes in demonic possession, spiritual healing and conservative sexual morality.
Last month David Cunningham addressed a conference in England organised by the group at its UK headquarters in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, on the making of the film. His talk was entitled Christ-like Witness in the Film Industry.
According to one of the group's publications,"David and his wife Judy are the nucleus of an association of more than 40 Ywam alumni who are called to the communications industry in the Los Angeles area ... to create an independent film company whereby he could both influence the Hollywood film industry and produce major motion pictures that would carry a Biblical, values-based message".
Speaking from the Harpenden HQ, where would-be "disciples" pay more than £2,000 for six-month courses, the missionary organisation's international chair, Lynn Green, said that Mr Cunningham's influence in the film was limited. "He was hired by Disney to direct. He was not...
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How about that---
"the triumph of Osama bin Laden"
according the vile, leftwing, muslim promoting Guardian.
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So, the left once more is pure as the driven snow while Christians are assumed to be idots.
So did the BBC check out the religious affiliation of the Brit who made the movie about a Bush assassination?
I saw no Christian overtones or points made in "The Path To 9/11" at all. Plenty of Islam though.
Now they are really in deep doodoo with their Moslem overlords.
Why are the british now anti religion?
Has Prince Big Ears now abdicated his position as protector of the faith and gone full atheist?
How does the Guardian know that Cunnigham is a conservative? It appears from the article that they only know he's an evangelical Christian. There's no information in the article about Cunningham's political views. Perhaps the Guardian considers the term "religous right" to be an effective smear to use against him.
Whatever else David Cunningham is, he's a pretty good director.
"A BBC spokesman said the organisation did not vet film-makers on their political or religious beliefs."
What - are they expected to?
Just checking. This is a post 1984 world afterall.
Rest assured there even had to be some at the BBC that wished they'd
vetted that C.S. Lewis guy before letting him on the radio in WWII.
(the lectures that are the cores of "Mere Christianity")
however theReagans which was written by two agenda driven homosexuals was a-ok for the UK.
I suspect someone at the BBC just wants a chance to torture David
Cunningham into a confession.
You know, some of the BBC staff are probably into that S&M thing.
To me it looks like a large number of Britons are locked in an indeological battle with American conservatives. Then because American conservatives tend to be religious, these same Britons have become reflexively anti-religous. They are now also automatically in a battle with Judaeo-Christian values to some extent because those relgion-based values are the values of Jewish and Christian conservatives in America. This is another example of mindless left-wing herd behavior in western nations.
So his film is bad solely because of his religion...
Anti-Christian bigotry is politically correct.
Hmmm... Mel Gibson's dad is a religious nutjob yet I'm sure they had no problem with Braveheart (other than the Scots kicking the blue blood's butts).
1. We know of Clarke's odd defenses of the Clinton administration during the 9/11 hearings, but that doesn't mean he didn't do a good job.
2. The central focus of heroism in this motion picure is John O'Neil. Apparently, this is quite apt.
Careful, rintense. There is a huge difference between a religious nutjob and a legitimate Jesus freak. You may or may not recognize it, but that is hardly uncommon.
Truth in posting: I'm the latter.
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