If I didn’t like the first episode of the Channel 4 series because it is shoddy, I love the second episode because I am shoddy. Portillo’s documentary on the Constantinian arrangement is so close to my sentiments and I am so loaded with bias by my weird dissenter theology that my review would be useless.
Your Correspondent, Portillo even handles Nicea well…
Hey. Scathingly critical reviews are not the only useful reviews.
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ah go on go on go on go on go on go on go on. you will.
you will i know you will.
BTW 101 in 1001 is over mate. Any highlights?
This reference describes the REAL history of the church as a would be world-conquering power and control seeking political institution.
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com
The power and control seeking drive thus described is very much alive in 2009, especially as and via the applied politics of right-wing religiosity
i’ve actually watched 7 from 8 of these now online. i presumed i’d hate it and it would annoy me but actually.. i thought it was reasonably balanced. I presumed like all these things the history would be told by those with a vested interested… ie theologians and ‘believers’. But actually the presenters were quite varied.
i guess you preferred the episodes presented by Christians, yeah? not so much the jew and the non-believer? i suppose they were ’shoddy’
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/christianity-a-history/episode-guide/series-1