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Steven Barrett
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Posted: Wed Jun 4th, 2008 11:34 pm |
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http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080604/32672.htm
This required a double-take!
Britain's First Interfaith Game Show to Air on Muslim TV
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Ethan Cole
Christian Post Reporter
Wed, Jun. 04 2008 03:23 PM ET
I doubt if the Muslims will have any Vanna's on this show, but if the show's producers stick to this idea below, the show has some fighting (oops) chance of success. Game shows are supposed to include some element of real drama and excitement.
Contestants are not theologians or scholars, but will vary in degree of religious knowledge.
What I want to know is, how will they handle those "touchy" historical questions dealing with topics like the "j word"?
Hint: Indiscriminate killing on behalf of Allah. (No doubt only men from a very large Middle Eastern persuasion will be allowed to answer this question, along with anything to do with cartoons of a certain well-known author in Muslim history.)
What are the "winnings"? Material pleasures and Vanna strutting some diamond-lined gown, and vacation spots where people aren't ashamed of their semi-clad sensuousness aren't going to entice everyone; nor a chance to ride on a cattle drive please most Hindus.
Well, maybe they'll find a Brit Muslim Vanna wanna a nice resplendant Burkha bejeweled so dazzilingly as to cause even the Taliban and Irans' Ayatollahs to stop and smile. (As for Saudi royalty, the dazziling Fatimas they've already had before at the Hypocrites Harem.
No doubt some good hearted Anglicans will take a dare and challenge their Catholic Christian brethern contestants. Shortly after all those Anglicans will realize they haven't just lost the match, they've also made their minds up to "Pope out." This leaves the Evangelicals the rest of the pickin's, which ought to be interesting in and of itself, esp. if Ian Paisley still has any say.
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jacki
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Posted: Thu Jun 5th, 2008 06:56 pm |
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| sounds interesting considering most of the jewish children I meet know more about Catholicity than some of my candidates for confirmation
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Steven Barrett
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Posted: Fri Jun 6th, 2008 05:07 pm |
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 Jacki, I knew you'd find this interesting!
What I can't figure out is this: with all the hyper materialism of our unique Sunbelt megachurch style of the "pray it/claim it" variety of evangelical Christianity that seems to be spreading over here, a faith-based game show (promising no doubt, financial winnings) starts in Britain!
It's as if Amway infiltrated both a Mosque, brainwashed a very faithfull entrepreneural Muslim and voila! a materialist's dream of providing both riches of heaven and earth on earth materializes (out of what a lot of Yanks over here would rather parochially consider "thin air" if this notion didn't originate from Hollywood.
Having been in Amway for a while, I can definitely say that while it's not a purely bad or good thing, (yes--of course, I'm trying to be VERY diplomatic and discrete, a challenge indeed) it sure gave me a heads up preview of what happens when churches, mosques, synagogues and temples embrace a form of materialism that's more than seemingly enhanced by new form of $pirituali$tic $teroid$.
Wow, now to think that the Hummer some guy worked n' prayed his buns off to get, and was "rewarded by the Lord" (to which he gave ample amplified testimony about receiving) is now a BUMMER at $4 a gallon.
Those contestants better watch what they play and pray for. They might get them. Then what if they can't even sell them if after reading Luke?
We just can't get enough Mammon. And we only seem to smarten up when we're faced with going "belly up" or Somebody we'd better pay attention to takes a biblical version of our proverbial 2 x 4 to the tables of iniquity. I'd be delighted if Jesus started out with Wall Street, and oil-market speculators, in particular. Then a visit to our infamous "Gucci Gulch" -- Washington DC's "K-Street" where lobbyists do their speculating at the public's wide expense as well. Only that's where our nation's soul gets traded for thirty pieces every second. 
Last edited on Fri Jun 6th, 2008 05:12 pm by Steven Barrett
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Posted: Sun Jun 8th, 2008 01:31 pm |
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| mm I dunno cant find what the prize is. I may have this very wrong here but our society seems much more accepting of others than the US which is why we have state paid for church schools, islamic schools and yesterday our first ever state sponsored hindu school. And whilst there are no such thing as ghettos we kind of all rub along beside each other not knowing much about each other - I think its a good idea lets see what it looks like in practice.
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Steven Barrett
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Posted: Tue Jun 10th, 2008 06:03 am |
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Oh, it's not that we don't break down barriers and avoid rubbing shoulders. It's just that our tribalism is a little more "pronounced" on this side of the pond. No moreso than in Boston. Wow, could I tell you stories about that place and all the wonderful examples of folks mixing together. NOT! I could certainly tell you quite the opposite, and not just about Boston, but places out side of it in New England and Florida. (That's another planet by itself.)
But I laugh everytime I read this quote by Saul Alinsky, a deceased radical guru to a generation of rads, including, if our mouthpieces of what a lady once famously called the "vast right wing conspiracy" -- was until recently, a former First Lady who got the most votes in American Primary history yet lost. (Sound familiar? only this time to a younger member of a vast left wing conspiracy, if you listened to her husband.) We like to mix things up over here as you can see.
Here's Alinsky's quote about integration, American style and it cracks me up when I think of what a self-fulfilling prophecy it's become. It's not entirely funny, but it sure has a way of describing us like Oscar Wilde d id when he said we know the price of everything but the value of nothi ng.
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
Saul Alinsky Chris Rock, Will Smith, Dick Gregory or Lenny Bruce couldn't have put it any better! Not even those fruitcakes, Rev'd Wright and Fr. Pfleger!
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