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Title: "48 hours mystery" "The story of Christmas" a 48 hours production
Post by: Stand_watie on December 16, 2006, 06:39:33 PM
A pre-preface to  Christians who think exactly as I do on matters of religious philosophy, those of other faiths, those of un-faith, those of anti-christian faith or those of christian anti-literalist christian beliefs...IF your opinions on the subject require you to state things obcenely, vulgarly, profanely or unkindly to people who believe differently than you, please give this thread a pass. I don't mean this to ask posters of differing philosophical opinion than I not to post (As examples, people saying "I don't believe Jesus Christ ever actually existed..." or "I believe Joshua Ben Joseph was a false prophet" aren't asked not to participate, but rather "Jesus [insert vulgar expletives here] Christ never existed you retard, religionist freaks !" types of people are asked not to participate.

































 












Let me preface this by saying that this television program is not pro-literal New Testament Scriptural account of the version of the birth of Christ laid out in the gospels. That said, I think it's well worth seeing.

Grounded literalist Christians won't have their faith shaken, despite challenges to their beliefs. Un-literalist Christians will probably be the most receptive to this program, but reasonable people of all faiths or non-faith who are interested in religious history may likely also like it.

Two great quotes that I liked from the very introduction to the  program...

"Christianity stands or falls on a certain amount of irreducable events"..

 "If you can't get excited about this, you're a Christian without a pulse..."

Both of these quotes from the first couple moments of the program.
Title: Re: "48 hours mystery" "The story of Christmas" a 48 hours production
Post by: Felonious Monk/Fignozzle on December 17, 2006, 10:18:00 AM
I missed it.  undecided

FWIW, you can read the entire transcript here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/19/48hours/main1135330.shtml
Title: Re: "48 hours mystery" "The story of Christmas" a 48 hours production
Post by: Desertdog on December 17, 2006, 03:11:20 PM
Next Friday, 12/22, ABC has a two hour Nativity Special that sounds interesting to me.