Ted Baehr is Wrong About Everything

According to Newsmax, a survey showed that 70 percent of people the UK doubted the biblical account of the birth of Jesus Christ. But, says "Bigoted" Ted Baehr, we are all, "gravely mistaken"

Excuse me while I recover from the paroxysm of laughter there.

Baehr, founder of The Christian Film & Television Commission ministry goes on to say:

"Christianity is true as well as historical, factual and intellectually sound"

Now excuse me for wondering, but where do these people get off making statements like this? It's pretty obvious that if people realist they're been sold a bottle of snake oil, they're going to go elsewhere - and that means that Baehr's network would be in trouble. He's hardly a impartial witness: quite the opposite.

He's also apparently a complete buffoon as this quote from the same article implies:

"Not only can you have complete faith in the New Testament documents and what they say about the virgin birth, divinity, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and teachings of Jesus Christ, but you can also rely on what they say about non-Christian places, people, and events, such as the names and titles of Roman government officials."

There's a small matter of several articles of pure faith in that sentence - not to mention and this is a brilliant clincher - the recent discovery that the original NT documents do not contain any reference to the resurrection. Uh oh. Sort of buggers that argument. The earliest text that we know of stops well short of anything about Jesus coming back to life, and stops at the bit where the disciples found the empty tomb.

The bit about resurrection was added later.

In more right-wing bollocks, Good News Daily reports that Disney is dropping the nauseating Narnia movies due to budgetary constraints, but goes on to say:

"The franchise stems from the classic, beloved, seven-part young fiction series THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA written by acclaimed Christian author C.S. Lewis, who defended the Faith against atheists and other pseudo-intellectuals."

So now they're saying if you don't have faith, you're dim. Oh yeah, that really works just like the straw man. Guess who wrote that... none other than, Ted Baehr. Yes folks, Baehr isn't just ignorant, he's actually a flag waving bigot to boot. He should try and practice a bit more of what he preaches.

PLOT SPOILER

If you are enjoying the Narnia books/films, then you won't want to know that they end with the children discovering they are all dead and in heaven. The lion was Jesus all the time - well who knew?

Depressing. Truly depressing.