Dr Who – what Xmas is all about
Metro is trying to stir up a bit of controversy about the Dr Who Christmas special, but so far has only managed to elicit a predictable quate from Stephen “Dog Shit” Green of the campaign group Stephen Green’s Voice (aka Christian Voice).
The episode shows the doctor saving a futuristic Titanic by persuading passengers that he has magic powers with the aid of two angelic robots.
Speaking of the Time Lord, Russell T Davies said,
The series lends itself to religious iconography because the Doctor is a proper saviour.
He saves the world through the power of his mind and passion.
To which Green responds,
The Doctor would have to do a lot more than the usual prancing around to be a messiah.
He has to save people from their sins.
Interesting idea. It should be well within the capabilities of the series writers to create a fictional character with the power to “save people from their sins”. St Paul did it, after all – and Russell Davies is a better writer.
It’s just not fair to solicit quotes from Green; that’s rather like badger baiting in my book. Metro should be ashamed. At least Dr Who fans know he’s fictional.
And by that I mean that JEBUS is fictional!
Just over a year ago my niece died of leukemia, she was not quite two. The vicar from the local church (my brother and sister-in-law live in a very small village) put a note through their door saying that they shouldn’t be angry at God. My mother at the time said it was like saying we shouldn’t be angry with James Bond. WTF is it with people who can’t separate fact from fiction then go and tell us what to do.
Chris, Vicars like that make me want to go and slap them and see if they turn the other cheek. Just as disgusting is the way our former PM has converted to catholicism; citing the fact that previous people might have thought he was a nutter. This is the guy who (like Dubya in the US) prayed to this invisible, unprovable and highly unlikely entity to see if he should launch an illegal war. Well, Blair, we DO think you’re a nutter.
Thousands of people are dead as a result and the world is little further forward (better of without Saddam to be sure, but that’s a minute advantage compared to other losses).
Now the nausiating Catholic church are making big statements about how wonderful this conversion is. They’re welcome to him.
I’m sorry for your family’s loss, Chris, please take some comfort in knowing that the world isn’t completely full of assholes.
The Doctor Who fan site Outpost Gallifrey has a piece mentioning this MWW entry at http://www.gallifreyone.com/news.php but the story will move down as new stuff is put up, but you can find it by searching on “MediaWatchWatch”.
My mother died last month, and perhaps the biggest shock we got was discovering that there is apparently an entire stratum of parasites who spend their days combing the local paper’s death notices to locate grieving families to whom they can try to flog vile evangelical tat.