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BBC's 'Spooks' sparks Christian backlash

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Market-Day.net
LONDON, Nov. 1
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. . . The controversial episode, which also showed a bishop setting up the assassination of an outspoken Islamic preacher, drew the wrath of the Evangelical Alliance as well.

"I do think that there is a sinister and malicious agenda at work here and that they are trying to plant the seed of the idea through fiction that evangelical Christians are just as likely to carry out terrorism as some members of the Islamic faith," said Don Horrocks, the group's public affairs director . . .

http://www.market-day.net/article_36518/20061101/BBCs-Spooks-sparks-Christian-backlash.php
 

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Fiction with a motive. Not to incite (obviously no reason for that considering recent violence in France and elsewhere) but to pander and to reinforce in weak, adrift minds the notion of moral equivalency. Sorta planting the same seeds Rosie O'Donnell tried to plant last month. It's a favorite theme among wealthy cultural elites in the west. Everybody does it. Who are we to judge? Pay no attention to those rioters in Paris, to the women being stoned to death in Iran, your kindly parish Biship could be plotting an assassination right under your nose.
 
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