NBC Draws Fire for Book of Daniel

Agape Press ^ | December 30, 2005 | Allie Martin

[NYer]

(AgapePress) - A pro-family media researcher is blasting NBC for plans to air a controversial series featuring a troubled Episcopal priest and other dysfunctional characters.

The network will air The Book of Daniel on Friday evenings, starting in early January. According to published reports, the weekly show centers around an Episcopal priest named Daniel Webster who talks with a manifestation of Jesus. In addition, the Webster family reportedly includes a 23-year-old homosexual, Republican son; a 16-year-old daughter who is a drug dealer; and an adopted son involved in an improper relationship with the bishop's daughter.

Ed Vitagliano is director of research for the American Family Association. He says the program mocks Christianity.

Ed Vitagliano

"While we certainly recognize that Christians do have problems, and they have problems in their families, it seems that Hollywood consistently wants to focus on those types of Christians and those types of ministers -- when the reality is that many, many more are hard-working," Vitagliano says. "They work hard to have good family lives -- just like a lot of people do -- and are faithful to scripture."

According to the AFA spokesman, advertisers who underwrite the program will be monitored -- and that information will be distributed far and wide.

"We will be reviewing this, and we will be letting AFA supporters know exactly what is on this program," he says. "And [we will be] holding advertisers accountable for what appears to be yet one more show that's going to dog the Christian faith."

AFA is calling on TV viewers to send a letter through its website asking NBC affiliates to refuse to air the show. Dr. Don Wildmon, AFA chairman and founder, contends the network's decision to air the series "reflects the anti-Christian bias which exists at the highest levels of the network."

[napscoordinator]

No I agree with you that it is not a wholesome show at all and I agree that it should not be on the air. My point is that us conservatives always complain when a leftist show comes on and say how the networks always put on smut which in some case that is not true. The problem is when there are wholesome shows on, we don't watch them. That was my main point.

[BigSkyFreeper]

You and I are probably in total agreement that this show is offensive and paints Christians in a bad light. I think that is clearly -- from the initial biography of the family in this show -- what the intent of this show is.

It's probably no coincidence that the worst network on the dial ratings-wise, picked up this show, and ran with it. Probably because the other networks didn't deem it worthy of air.

[BigSkyFreeper]

This show is nothing but a Marxist propaganda. It meets several of the Communist Goals (1963) as presented to the House of Representatives.

Interesting. Hadn't heard of such a thing, but I ran across this.

[Semper Paratus]

I saw the last 15 minutes of it and saw 2 declarations of homosexuality, a drug buy, drug use, and a proposal to have a mafia front company build a church.

Every bit as bad as predicted. My wife and I are emailing the network affiliate this morning.

[seemoAR]

I wonder how many of the media take money from the "Religion of Peace". Both groups would love to destroy the Church.

[Bernard Marx]

They should wait a couple more years until they've gone further with coarsening Society before going ahead with this. In this respect it is ahead of it's time. The Public hasn't been properly dumbed down yet.

It's interesting to find someone else as cynical as me out there. But don't worry: this will be just a minor skirmish in the culture war. The series will be recycled when the time is right. I've watched, politically impotent, as American society has been deconstructed piece by piece since the 1960s. But the work's about done. TV has been a remarkable vector of socialist decadence, a tool Marx and Lenin could only dream about.

[Bear_Slayer]

KCFW, our local NBC affiliate, asked several (three) potential viewers what they thought about TBOD.

All three of them couldn't formulate a complete sentence and blathered briefly about it.

Sadly, the third comment was from a retarded fellow, which makes it pathetic on so many levels.

I have pity for this third fellow, embarrassment for the two others and anger towards KCFW.

[Bear_Slayer]

Satan is the father of hollywood.

The prince and the power of the airwaves

[Bear_Slayer]

Am I dreaming

This is no dream. this is a nightmare.

When asked by Daniel, "Aren't you supposed to comfort me?"

Fake Jesus replies incredulously, "Now where did you read that?"