It is said one cannot toss a dead squirrel in the air without it landing on a Christian, what with there being so many of them. Do we really know all about the origins of this religion, though? With the Christmas season upon us, CNN will be airing a two-hour documentary, CNN Presents: After Jesus – The First Christians, which will examine the early days of Christianity, including the persecution of early Christians and debates over the direction the religion should take even among its own followers.
I consider myself a non-religious person who's still interested in learning about religion. While I don't subscribe to the Christian faith, I'm always interested in learning about the history behind things, and to fill in what I forgot from my college religion courses. Based on the press release, this sounds like it could actually be rather informative, so I'm looking forward to it. It will air December 20 at 7 and 10 pm, and re-air December 23 and 24 at 7 and 10 pm also.
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12-03-2006 @ 7:26PM
David4 said...
Fun Fact 1! Jesus wasn't born in December, let alone the 25th. All the Christains do are steal Pagan holidays and claim them as their own.
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12-03-2006 @ 7:50PM
Neens said...
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12-03-2006 @ 8:28PM
Cyberphin said...
Pagans converted to Christianity and as they were transformed they transformed their traditions to suit what they saw as the new truth in their lives. Pagans still have their holidays and converts still have theirs, win win, except for the fact that everything is co-opted by corporations that trump all with comercialism.
PS
I was going to post about how ugly it will be to look at those early days, hmm, it's still pretty ugly and I'm a Christin!
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12-03-2006 @ 9:43PM
Mike Farrell said...
While I have no doubt this show will be very interesting, and would be interested in seeing a show like this myself, but I have to ask...what in the heck is this doing on CNN? Is there a way to even disguise this as news? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to have this on Discovery, History, or some other channel?
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12-04-2006 @ 1:20AM
Gary Bourgeault (bizofshowbiz.com) said...
Having it on CNN already makes it suspect and will probably be ignored by most people that may otherwise have been intested.
I agree, it should have been put on another channel. I don't see this working at all for them.
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12-08-2006 @ 5:46PM
james said...
One of the problems you got is you keep claiming the Bible is wrong. How do you know that? What anti-christian literature written by one fallable author with bad reaserch did you get your ideas from? You're basing your beliefs based on those things you read in some anti-christian literature by one fallable author with bad reaserch. You put faith in things that give you a very weak foundation. The Bible is written over 1600+ years by 40 authors in different geographic locations and this was done before a printing press. The other issue is your ideas of Biblical morality. The Bible teaches that you're not a good person. The Bible shows that you do a lot of evil deeds. Such as lying, covetousness, stealing...even your thoughts are abominable. Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the law, psalms and prophets(1600+ years of literature). The Bible teaches Jesus Christ made all things and all things are made for him. Jesus Christ is king of heaven and earth right now as we speak. Jesus Christ is head over all principalities and powers. There is no authority that exsist accept for those Jesus Christ has allowed to be established. You are guilty of doing evil deeds. You do as the Bible says you will do. Such as mocking at amends for sins. Read some proverbs, you do as the Bible says you will do. On Judgement day you will be found guilty because of your evil deeds. That means you do deserve to go to hell forever. Even in our society if a person is convicted of a felony or as a sexual preadator those crimes will follow them as long as they live. do you know Jesus Christ has the power to forgive sins? Jesus Christ says if you humble yourself and turn from your evil deeds that he forgives your evil deeds committed past, present and future. No longer does your conscience have to weighed down by the heavy burdens of all your evil deeds. If you turn from evil and trust Jesus Christ then Jesus will accept you. Jesus Chris won't turn you away and you will have eternal life and righteousness. Please repent, we do care about you and you should flee from the wrath of God that is to come. God's wrath is coming because of all the evil deeds done by man.
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12-09-2006 @ 1:27AM
Jaime a converted to Islam said...
Hey James there are many people nowadays who are open minded and seeking for the truth. Unfortunately, you live in a modern world with freedom to seek the truth, freedom to have comparative study about religions. I think God allow this fate to happen that CNN a worldwide TV channel will broadcast this topic.
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