Fury Over BBC's Nativity Insult

Express UK ^ | 12.29.10 | David Stephenson

[narses]

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[stevem]

The BBC has angered Christians with a TV drama in which the Virgin Mary is branded a prostitute and sex cheat.

The way to properly deal with the BBC is simply don't watch. They will go away just like media in the United States.

“Don’t forget that those who wrote the gospels were doing so from a distance of 200 years.

I always understood the synoptic gospels were written much earlier with Mark about 45 (Year of our Lord) and Matthew and Luke at about 60 (Anno Domini). Now this means lots of friends and neighbors were still extant.

John (my personal favorite) took more investigative reporting, although I suspect John was a better reporter than anyone hired by the BBC. Anyway, John published his story at about 90, so many of his sources were still first hand.

[xzins]

Don’t forget that those who wrote the gospels were doing so from a distance of 200 years.

Simply not a fact. In fact, a bold telling of a big lie that absolutely violates the truth that the gospels were the in-their-lifetime record of the Apostles and/or their amanuensis.

Why in the word is it considered "daring" to denigrate those who will not strike back at you?

Next, we'll hear them applauding their courage for taking advantage of little kids. They, too, can't strike back.

[samtheman]

Actress Tatiana Maslany, 25, who plays Mary, said: “If you took the names Mary and Joseph out, it could be a story about any two people in love.

Just goes to show you how abysmally stupid the average "actress" is.

[Mrs. Don-o]

RD, I read that a papyrologist named Thiede has found fragments of Greek texts in the caves at Qumran from the New Testament – specifically 7Q5 [from "Mark"] and P46 [from "Matthew"] – and datable to before the 60s AD. People who date these things post-70 AD do so by imposing their unsupported assumption that the prophecies about the first Jewish War, thr destruction of the Temple, and persecution in its wake mentioned in the Gospels must have been written after those events, i.e. they insisted a priori that prophecies could not have been prophecies.

The critical date is 49 AD, since Claudius expelled all Jews from Rome (Christian and non-Christian Jews) at that date. John Mark was a Jew so he hardly stayed behind if Peter was expelled at this time. The earliest time for their return was after Claudius died in 54 AD. Apparently the Gospel of Mark is from this period and very likely written in Rome, or at least for Jewish-diaspora Latin speakers since it has so many Latinisms in the text; and was very probably sourced from Pater, for whom Mark acted as scribe.

I am by no means an expert on these details. It's just what I've read.

[AliVeritas]

Just goes to show, without God, they’re lost. If they didn’t have him to attack, what would they do?

They prove his existence more stridently than any timid, ‘I wouldn’t want to insult ________, ‘All ways are the same’, no one will go to hell, fellow Christian brothers and sisters.

[BonRad]

The old Talmudic hatred is the only thing being ‘updated’ here.

[MinuteGal]

" 'Jordan's adaptation presents a gritty interpretation of the events of the first Christmas', a CHURCH OF ENGLAND SPOKESMAN said, 'We hope it will bring home the story of Jesus being born in a humble stable to many new viewers.' "

These asinine words by a church leader, no less, is pathetic on so many levels. Weak, spineless, foppish, fearful and scarcely a statement delivered by a bible-believing Defender of the Faith.

No wonder the Church of England is losing membership head-over-heels. So much so that if present trends continue, by 2050, attendees at Sunday services is predicted to be approximately 88,000.....NATIONWIDE!

And if the Church's timorous leaders had been doing their jobs, the fact that Jesus was born in a humble stable should not be touted as a brand new revelation "brought home" to "new BBC viewers" watching this blasphemous program.

Good grief! Are there no more St. George's left in Christendom?

Leni

[jimt]

“Tony Jordan’s adaptation presents a gritty interpretation of the events of the first Christmas."

The guy misspelled it. That "gr" should be sh.

Somebody (or several somebodies) at BBC should be fired.

[Mr. Lucky]

C'mon, show some sensitivity.

Mohamed married his 7 year old girlfriend so, of course it's not OK to call him a pedophile.

[The_Reader_David]

Oh, that’s exciting. I didn’t know there were any New Testament texts, even fragmentary ones at Qumran. I was citing the date for the oldest complete manuscripts.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Hmm.. like I said, I'm no authority.

Mousing around a bit, I found this explanation in Wikipedia(Link) (which is no authority either!) which says that the fragment, which is only about the size of a postage stamp and has less than 20 legible letters on it, only "might" be from Mark, and only "might" be that early.

Of course, discoverer Thiede argues otherwise; there are pro's and con's elsewhere on the Internet; and controversy will never cease!

[Mrs. Frogjerk]

Nice catch on your part. I think that that is exactly what this blithering idiot is referring to. The conception of our Lord is not referred to as the “Immaculate Conception”. I don’t even think that that term was used by the Church until after the miracle at Lourdes for crying out loud!