PBS: God In America

3:57 pm EST September 3rd, 2010 | History, Religion | 20 Comments

This looks pretty awesome. And since its from PBS/Frontline/American Experience it’ll be an accurate look at faith in America, and not Glenn Beck’s perversion of it.

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20 Responses to “PBS: God In America”

  1. Shopaholic_918 says:
    September 3, 2010 at 4:11 pm

    Looks amazing! Thanks for sharing.

  2. White Whale says:
    September 3, 2010 at 4:40 pm

    So you mean it maybe a balanced look at fait, both GOOD and bad? I am all for that! Maybe people will be able to discuss religion like Marillyne Robinson suggests. Of course it may puncture the idea that all Christians are blood thirsty savages and Christians should approach atheist differently.

  3. eileen says:
    September 3, 2010 at 5:17 pm

    Looks like they put too much thought into this. It’s gonna cause trouble. Has anyone checked into their funding?

  4. Frank DiSalle says:
    September 3, 2010 at 5:19 pm

    Betting on the latter, W W; the former – not so much.
    And PBS leans further to the left than ABC, CBS or NBC

  5. Quaker in a Basement says:
    September 3, 2010 at 6:24 pm

    That’s right, Whale. If it’s on PBS, it just has to be anti-Christian propaganda.

  6. durablend says:
    September 3, 2010 at 7:06 pm

    Complete with Koran pledge drives, don’t forget that!

  7. James E. Powell says:
    September 3, 2010 at 8:01 pm

    I wouldn’t expect anything bold or shocking from PBS. They know that if they offend the fundamentalists their funding will be cut.

  8. eileen says:
    September 3, 2010 at 8:06 pm

    I was being sarcastic. This looks like a really great series. I wish it was on the triumvirate stations – more people would see it and would have something to think about.

  9. SpiderJ says:
    September 3, 2010 at 8:23 pm

    And PBS leans further to the left than ABC, CBS or NBC.

    PBS can do that. It doesn’t have corporate sponsors.

    And I’ll gladly continue to call myself liberal if it means I’m in the company of Sesame Street and Fred Rogers.

  10. The Dark Avenger says:
    September 3, 2010 at 8:28 pm

    Ah, for the good ol’ days:

    The Great American Dream Machine was a weekly satirical variety television series, produced in New York City by WNET and broadcast on PBS from 1971 to 1973. The program was hosted by humorist and commentator Marshall Efron. The show centered around skits and satirical political commentary. The hour and a half long show usually contained at least seven different current event topics. In the second season, the show was trimmed down to an hour.

    Other notable cast members included Chevy Chase. Contributors included Albert Brooks and Andy Rooney.

    There were also occasional short films presented on the show, most of them “experimental” or documentaries about artistic endeavours. Some of these were subtitled.

    Each week there was also a Great American Hero segment. One week was Evel Knievel; played over Evel’s hospital footage was a honky-tonk song about putting body parts back together. [1]

  11. Robert says:
    September 3, 2010 at 8:47 pm

    Curious, I belong to an organization that not only bars atheists from joining, but begins every meeting with a (nondenominational) prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance.

    And yet the sort of people who cheer on Beck and boo the Public Broadcasting System tend, on the whole, to distrust and fear the Masons. It is a puzzlement.

  12. jr says:
    September 4, 2010 at 12:47 am

    “MORE PBS SECULAR HUMANIST PROPAGANDA THAT HAS NETHERLANDSIFIED OUR COUNTRY”-Matt Drudge

  13. SteveCo says:
    September 4, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    If only we could be, just a little, “Netherlandsified”… would go a long way in making this country even better. But alas, “those who know what’s best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.”

  14. Frank DiSalle says:
    September 5, 2010 at 3:41 pm

    And I’ll gladly continue to call myself liberal if it means I’m in the company of Sesame Street and Fred Rogers.
    Apparently, the liberal intellect seeks its own level – a spaced out ex – minister, and a bunch of hand puppets!

    Quaker, feel free to refer me to any PBS presentations which might have cast Christianity in a favorable light. I could be wrong, but betting on PBS to lean left is usually a sure thing.

  15. timmy says:
    September 5, 2010 at 5:50 pm

    I’m curious if FDS will watch the series.

    I’m also curious if they’ll address what many people believe – that Christianity was hijacked by plutocrats that machinate via “the right”.

    In the meantime, a couple liberal Christian websites which are obviously owned and operated by Soros/Satan:

    http://www.jesusisaliberal.org/
    http://www.liberalslikechrist.org/

  16. timmy says:
    September 5, 2010 at 6:23 pm

    OT, but now you’ve got me curious about what an Ayn Rand childrens show would have been like.

    Would the kid who helped others be ostracized?
    Would the bully puppets be the heros (as long as they didn’t outright steal personal property)?
    Would the theme song be “I’m gonna be your rival?”

  17. Zython says:
    September 5, 2010 at 7:44 pm

    pparently, the liberal intellect seeks its own level – a spaced out ex – minister, and a bunch of hand puppets!

    You know, it takes a heart made out of pure ice to insult Sesame Street (childhood incarnate) and Fred Rogers (kindness incarnate).

    It also takes a great deal of arrogance to claim that children’s media holds no intellectual or artistic value.

  18. Southern Quaker says:
    September 6, 2010 at 4:55 pm

    Quaker, feel free to refer me to any PBS presentations which might have cast Christianity in a favorable light. I could be wrong, but betting on PBS to lean left is usually a sure thing.

    Bill Moyers On Faith and Reason

    Charlie Rose also has had some excellent interviews with people of faith, including Francis Collins.

    Not that I believe you were actually interested in an answer, Frank.

  19. Bruce says:
    September 6, 2010 at 7:16 pm

    What, Frank no Christian respect for the deceased Fred Rogers? He wasn’t spaced out, he just talked above your academic level. As for Sesame Street, if wingnuts had produced it Gordon would have been working in the mailroom and addressed Bob as Marse Bob, Oscar the Grouch would have been reading The Fountainhead and quoting it all the same and Big Bird and guest start Ted Nugent would have shot, field-dressed and eaten Mr. Snuffalupagus.

  20. 3D says:
    September 9, 2010 at 3:45 am

    In the meantime, a couple liberal Christian websites which are obviously owned and operated by Soros/Satan:

    http://www.jesusisaliberal.org/
    http://www.liberalslikechrist.org/

    Debating Jesus’s political affiliation is like debating a unicorn’s favorite color. He did not exist.

    Having said that, the Jesus character in the Bible was definitely not anything close to a progressive. He was pro-slavery (Ephesians 6:5-9), anti-women’s rights and equality (Luke 2:23, Romans 1:27, 1 Corinthians 11:3, 14:34-35, 1 Timothy 2:9) and planning to destroy the world in a full-scale terrorist attack. He’s more of an extreme militarist conservative, although the Bible is so inconsistent and self-contradictory that you could probably pick a verse at random and turn him into anything from a libertarian to a Buddhist monk.

    Back to the original point — the claim that Republi-tards have hijacked religion is only half true. Yes — the politicians cynically use religion as a marketing ploy to win votes from the dullards. That’s accurate. But the idea that religion is some pure and sweet thing that has been corrupted by modern right-wing nutbags could not be further from the truth. Read the Bible; the nutbags are the ones who have it right. It’s a truly, truly insane book.