29 January 2006

Book of Daniel

An interesting take on the Book of Daniel fiasco, including this:


THERE IS ANOTHER DETAIL in Book of Daniel which rings untrue: Daniel's church is packed with people every Sunday. The Episcopal Church is actually dwindling in size, a decline accelerated by recent controversies over sex and theology.
Episcopalians are an increasingly tiny minority in America. But because the church of the chronically well-heeled has been on top of the American social, economic, and political heap for much of the last 400 years, Episcopalians have always been considered fair game for mockery.

Book of Daniel only accelerated that mockery. Canceled after only a few episodes, the aborted series at least chronicled one of America's most famously failed experiments in liberal religion.

 

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