By Robert Spencer “Would the BBC have dared spoof Islam?,” by Julian Mann, Christian Today, December 24, 2020 (thanks to Henry): The...
By Robert Spencer
The Goes Wrong Show on BBC 1 the other night pretended to be
satirising a badly organised Nativity play. Harmless fun you might say but
actually this poor attempt at comedy was mocking the message of Christmas
itself – the Incarnation of the one true God in Jesus Christ.
The real intention of its makers was quite clear in their
ridicule of the Annunciation, the account in Luke’s Gospel of the Angel Gabriel
telling the Virgin Mary that she would become pregnant by the Holy Spirit and
give birth to Jesus who ‘shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the
Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David’
(Luke 1v32 – Authorised Version).
Am I calling for this sort of programme to be banned?
Certainly not. The cancel culture should not be pandered to, least of all by
orthodox Christians. They are the very people most likely to be silenced if the
forces of the neo-Marxist totalitarianism behind the cancel culture is allowed
to prevail. If there were a commercial broadcaster which thought it could make
money out of such blasphemous rubbish as The Goes Wrong Show – The Nativity,
then good luck to them.
But does it not speak volumes about the real viability of
such anti-Christian propaganda in Christmas week that it was the licence-fee
cocooned State broadcaster that was responsible for it and not a commercial
operator?
The shame I feel about this broadcast, which I did not set
out to watch (a member of my family drew my attention to it), arises from the
fact that I helped to fund it by paying the BBC licence fee last February. It
may have become a truism to point this out given the BBC’s blatant
anti-Christian bias in the past couple of decades, but does anyone seriously
think that the corporation would dream of broadcasting a spoof on an essential
tenet of Islam during Ramadan?…
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