I help fund the BBC through my licence fee and I don't object to them showing religious bullshit, which usually gives me a bit of a laugh anyway.....if you watch just a bit of Songs of Praise and see with how much gusto the congregation ( no doubt heavily inflated cause of the tv cameras ) sing along with an eerie look of joy on their little faces ) you'll see what I mean.
The beeb also gives Dawkins a good go, so balance is there.
On a related matter, I recently scored a small hit for militant atheism on our local BBC news programme. The trailer said that one of the items was about the latest religios artefact doing the rounds, namely a bit of wood that the trailer said " was thought " to be from Christ's crown of thorns.
I promptly emailed saying that it would be more accurate to say it was " claimed " to be etc. etc.
When it went out a short time later " thought " had become " said " to be. Not as strong as " claimed " I grant you but a small result!
The beeb also gives Dawkins a good go, so balance is there.
On a related matter, I recently scored a small hit for militant atheism on our local BBC news programme. The trailer said that one of the items was about the latest religios artefact doing the rounds, namely a bit of wood that the trailer said " was thought " to be from Christ's crown of thorns.
I promptly emailed saying that it would be more accurate to say it was " claimed " to be etc. etc.
When it went out a short time later " thought " had become " said " to be. Not as strong as " claimed " I grant you but a small result!
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
