Saturday, November 04, 2006

The BBC is Living in the Dark Ages

That is the only way to explain how in the world they could produce a show about terrorism where the terrorists are Christians who want to start a holy war against Muslims. Talk about the opposite of what's going on:

Christians were outraged by the episode of the drama, which showed a group of evangelical terrorists who carry out a number of attacks on the Muslim community and attempt to spark a religious war in the UK.

The programme also depicted a rogue Bishop, who was also a government advisor, organising the assassination of a radical Islamic preacher.

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In the programme the Christian terrorist group was seen carrying out a hand-grenade attack on Muslims and planing to blow up a Mosque in Manchester.

It featured a video broadcast by the fictional group saying: "Britain is a nation under Christ - we will no longer tolerate the Muslims in our ranks - this is a declaration of war against Islam."

The programme showed the group as a "network of devoted killers prepared die for their cause" and its leader was depicted as a man who had wanted to train for the priesthood. In the programme he was seen saying he was doing "God's will" and that he was going to restore "God's Kingdom".

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A spokeswoman for the show said: "Spooks is an award-winning drama series which is based entirely on fiction and we are confident our viewers understand that episodes do not portray real events.

"Throughout the show's five series we have featured a wide variety fictional terror threats which are all derived from our script-writers' imaginations.

But wouldn't you want your show to be at least plausible? What do Christians do when faced with Muslim extremists who want to fight a holy war? They forgive them. Or they send their missionaries (here's an interesting article about Chinese missionaries to Muslim countries) to share the love of God with them. Christians know something that the BBC doesn't:

2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments 5 and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ

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