Earlier this week, CNN ran a three part, six hour series called God’s Warriors. I haven’t heard or read anything about it didn’t know about it at all until intrepid commenter Bill from Dover tipped me about it today.
The network is running encore presentations this weekend at 9 p.m. EDT each evening; last night’s presentation on Judaism is lost to the aether for now, but you can still catch tonight’s on Islam and tomorrow’s on Christianity.
I’m not sure why CNN chose to present the Abrahamic cults in the order they have. It could be because Judaism, Islam and Christianity are ordered from the least number of worldwide adherents to the most, or possibly because the producers believe that Judaism is less insane than Islam, etc. Regardless, I don’t know how more faith-driven stupidity I can take, so I don’t know that I’ll be watching myself.
God’s Warriors on CNN
Advertisement
- Doc Bushwell is a biochemist and a medical writer who serves as a slavering minion of the dark lords of Big and Little Pharma; Jim is an engineering professor with a fondness for running shoes and drumsticks; and Kevin Beck is a self-exiled member of the clan who refuses to stay gone.
<-- Subscribe to our dreck
What Hominids are Saying
Sort by Tribe Member
kemibe
docbushwell
jim
#1 by firdaus janoos on August 25, 2007 - 9:11 pm
the program in fact is about faith driven stupidity. they talk of the violence that is being perpetrated in the name of god. it’s quite a good watch – with perspective given to it by considering at history and the current geo-political situation. i’m rather surprised that cnn has actually produced a show of this quality and honesty.
#2 by coturnix on August 25, 2007 - 9:19 pm
I watched the first 20 seconds and decided I had better things to do, like twiddle my thumbs energetically.
#3 by Mac on August 25, 2007 - 10:54 pm
Know why you should watch it? “Know your enemy” — Sun Tzu. That’s why it’s even good to watch a little Fox And Friends every now and then, assuming you can suppress your gag reflex enough.
#4 by bigTom on August 26, 2007 - 12:08 am
I know Mac is right, but I am old, and have a tendency towards high blood pressure. I watched a few minutes of the Cristian warriors, then reverted to my emperor Palpatine imitation “kill them, kill them all”. This whole thing has me pretty concerned about the future.
#5 by Rev.BigDumbChimp on August 27, 2007 - 8:07 am
I watched the section on Christianity last night (or at least part of it, I came in after it started). I’ll have to say Amanpour does mostly a good job on the interviews. She didn’t challenge too much but she didn’t roll over on her back either. It was all the same players you would expect to see there Hagee, Scarborough, Falwell, Luce as well as many others. I thought that it hinted at the insanity on the side of the Christian Fundamentalists and occasionally came out with some specific examples of the danger they pose (highlighting what would happen if Stevens and Bader Ginsberg were replaced with Alito / Roberts clones comes to mind), but didn’t cross that line I wanted it to to show the real depth of how the Christianists threaten us.
The section on the Battle Cry movement was actually pretty good and I appreciated how Amanpour made the obvious Taliban comparison which Luce of course hand waved off with the clasic “but they are extremists” defense so often used by those who hold zero ability to look in the mirror.