Is National Geographic deliberately undermining Christianity?
For the last month, on National Geographic channel Asia I've had to put up with constant commercials about "The Judas Gospel"...is everything we knew about Judas wrong?
The short commercial implies that there was a coverup of Judas and NOW WE KNOW.
Before then, it was short commercials about "The DaVinci Code"...again implying that the gospels were wrong.
Today they started a commercial "Hidden Gospels"....were there other Messiahs?
Is the National Geographic channel deliberatly warring against Christianity, or is it merely their advertising agency that is deliberately being provocative to get more viewers, and never mind if it deliberatly hints against Catholicism...
People just don't realize how these things are being absorbed here in the Philippines.
Here faith is deep, but often mixed with paganism (by the less sophisticated, mainly Catholics) or it is poorly understood on an intellectual level (by protestants and by Charismatics/Pentecostals of all churches).
Now these people are being told that they are wrong...and alas, they don't have the intellectual background in history to be able to know what is fantasy, what is cutting edge biblical scholarship, and what is a resurgence of anti Christian gnosticism that is going directly against the Catholic church.
Even the defenders of Christianity here get it wrong: At least two articles discussing this assumed these gospels were historically accurate, not gnostic philosophy that give little historical details...and one even said that we should stick to the bible, after saying Catholics were forbidden to read the bible...(sounds like the anti Catholic southern baptists got hold of her)...overlookin of course that if it wasn't for the Catholic idea that the church holds the story of salvation that the church was able to judge what books belong in the bible.
Jenkin's book on the Hidden Gospels is probably the best one to explain what's going on...LINK is to canada Amazon...
The short commercial implies that there was a coverup of Judas and NOW WE KNOW.
Before then, it was short commercials about "The DaVinci Code"...again implying that the gospels were wrong.
Today they started a commercial "Hidden Gospels"....were there other Messiahs?
Is the National Geographic channel deliberatly warring against Christianity, or is it merely their advertising agency that is deliberately being provocative to get more viewers, and never mind if it deliberatly hints against Catholicism...
People just don't realize how these things are being absorbed here in the Philippines.
Here faith is deep, but often mixed with paganism (by the less sophisticated, mainly Catholics) or it is poorly understood on an intellectual level (by protestants and by Charismatics/Pentecostals of all churches).
Now these people are being told that they are wrong...and alas, they don't have the intellectual background in history to be able to know what is fantasy, what is cutting edge biblical scholarship, and what is a resurgence of anti Christian gnosticism that is going directly against the Catholic church.
Even the defenders of Christianity here get it wrong: At least two articles discussing this assumed these gospels were historically accurate, not gnostic philosophy that give little historical details...and one even said that we should stick to the bible, after saying Catholics were forbidden to read the bible...(sounds like the anti Catholic southern baptists got hold of her)...overlookin of course that if it wasn't for the Catholic idea that the church holds the story of salvation that the church was able to judge what books belong in the bible.
Jenkin's book on the Hidden Gospels is probably the best one to explain what's going on...LINK is to canada Amazon...


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