{"id":1526,"date":"2006-11-04T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/11\/the-bbc-is-living-in-the-dark.html"},"modified":"2006-11-04T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T09:30:00","slug":"the-bbc-is-living-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/11\/the-bbc-is-living-in-the-dark.html","title":{"rendered":"The BBC is Living in the Dark Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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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. <\/p>\n

The programme also depicted a rogue Bishop, who was also a government advisor, organising the assassination of a radical Islamic preacher.\n<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

“Throughout the show’s five series we have featured a wide variety fictional terror threats<\/span> which are all derived from our script-writers’ imaginations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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<\/a> them. Or they send their missionaries<\/a> (here’s<\/a> 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:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Link via Verum Serum<\/a>)
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