RE: Do you think historical accuracy matters much in modern entertainment
September 17, 2022 at 6:39 pm
Talking about the historical accuracy and the news that the TV show MASH is celebrating its 50th anniversary, I remembered reading a long time ago trivia about the show and how they had written out the black surgeon, Spearchucker, already in season one because of "historical accuracy" that no black surgeons served during the Korean War. I thought "wow, was that really necessary?"
And doing some research now, it seems that there were some black surgeons (at least one) serving in Korea, so it wouldn't have been historically inaccurate.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3994465/
And doing some research now, it seems that there were some black surgeons (at least one) serving in Korea, so it wouldn't have been historically inaccurate.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3994465/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
