It's almost as if the word history had a different meaning entirely.

3/14/2013 8:00:38 AM

Soap Box?

3/14/2013 9:04:45 AM

Soap Box?

3/14/2013 9:39:03 AM

In My Entertainment?

3/14/2013 10:51:39 AM

^^^^I was expecting a miniseries about the time period and the probably origins of Biblical texts, but instead it's a straightforward showing of parts of the Protestant scriptures.

3/14/2013 4:45:10 PM

I don't understand where the problem is. The History Channel has made no assertions that this representation of the Bible is actual fact. It is just a literal interpretation of a book put to the screen.

3/14/2013 5:09:13 PM

Because you expect stuff that comes on the "History" channel to be about factual history, you know?

3/14/2013 5:14:40 PM

Given the sheer amount of human history driven by this single document, there's a reasonable case to be made for producing a show that visualizes what's said in it. Think sometimes people forget how violent and messy the Old Testament is for example.

3/14/2013 5:14:48 PM

Forget? Nah.

Most people never read it.

3/14/2013 9:12:40 PM

You expect The "Learning" Channel to help you teach you shit, you know?

3/14/2013 9:53:23 PM

Do they show Lot's daughters tag team him?

I'd watch

3/14/2013 11:15:10 PM

i watched that one actually. Only scenes with Lot showed him peacing out from Abraham and then his fleeing Sodom.

and it didn't even mention that Lot tried to pimp out his daughters.

it was just like, oh Lot has some guests and these crazy Sodomites are trying to "get" them, for some reason. And then they fled the city.

[Edited on March 14, 2013 at 11:29 PM. Reason : .]

3/14/2013 11:26:55 PM

Bullet, explain to me then, what history there is in Swamp People. Or Ax Men. Or Ice Road Truckers. The history of alligator hunting? The history of tree felling? The history of driving big ass trucks over lots of ice and icy roads? Yup. The history channel nailed those.

3/15/2013 8:50:54 AM

Oh, the History channel jumped the shark way before this.

Still, this show is horseshit. I want to see Yahweh get pissed at Samuel for not slaying the Amalekite king in addition to the women and infants he ordered Samuel to slaughter. (1 Sam 1:15)

Or as mentioned before, Lot offering his daughters to the rapey mob and then Lot's daughters raping him. So much good stuff in the Bible.

This is just more of the same: Christians proclaiming the rich narrative of the Bible and completely ignoring the absolutely horrific shit in both the Old and New Testaments.

[Edited on March 15, 2013 at 9:20 AM. Reason : .]

3/15/2013 9:16:19 AM

Yep. This shit should be on HBO.

3/15/2013 10:42:22 AM

thanks to this show i learned that the bible has a ton of white people in it

3/15/2013 10:51:01 AM

If you want to ween someone away from religion, just have them read the holy text(s) of the religion they claim to believe.

The bible is horrific, it's hard to read that book and think that the god in that book is in any way to be admired let alone worshiped.

3/15/2013 11:34:38 AM

christianity follows the new covanent, there is not as much rapey incest in that

3/15/2013 11:43:48 AM

No, but it's still full of magic, bullshit, and inconsistency.

3/15/2013 12:00:23 PM

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"Because you expect stuff that comes on the "History" channel to be about factual history, you know?"

So, they sandwiching this between their documentary about vampires and some reality show about truckers?

3/15/2013 12:03:56 PM

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"It's almost as if the word history had a different meaning entirely"

either you have no idea what else is on the history channel, or you just wanted an excuse to deride the bible.

3/15/2013 1:48:11 PM

Shhhh, I'm trying to watch Monster Quest on The History Channel.

3/15/2013 2:07:10 PM

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"either you have no idea what else is on the history channel, or you just wanted an excuse to deride the bible"

Who needs an excuse?

3/15/2013 4:55:13 PM

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"Monster Quest on The History Channel"

I watched like 2 episodes of this

if they ever find anything, its gonna be on the news that night, not on that show

3/16/2013 9:20:05 AM

Ha, idiots thought that The History Channel was all about factual history. It's a damn TV channel. It's all about entertaining the masses.

3/16/2013 9:29:30 PM

They used to air actual documentaries. Now you have to watch it around Sunday at about 9 AM to see anything related to history, that isn't just entertainment.

3/17/2013 8:59:24 AM

grrr i hate religion rawr rawr rawr

3/17/2013 12:01:01 PM

H2 has all of the good factual history stuff.

I watch that channel all of the time.

3/17/2013 12:30:32 PM

The Bible series has been quite boring so far. It's just another narrative-like depiction of Bible stories that is pretty straightforward. I'm sure someone came up with the idea to produce it just to work it in with a Bible study and line their pockets with cash.

Even though it doesn't cover as much, I'd rather watch the original Ten Commandments movie.

3/17/2013 1:54:54 PM

Why does there have to be an H2? Why not just air documentaries on H1.

3/17/2013 9:52:03 PM

I'm sure disco_stu is just glued to this one.

3/17/2013 10:50:06 PM

So when do we get to see the same kind of production for the Koran?

3/17/2013 11:07:56 PM

as soon as major advertisers are willing to have their product boycotted

3/17/2013 11:44:58 PM

^^^why, it's just more of the same aggrandizement of their fables.

3/18/2013 10:08:07 AM

apparently they cast Obama as Satan?

3/18/2013 10:10:40 AM

It would be difficult for them to produce a show like this for the Koran, primarily b/c the star wouldn't be able to make an appearance. If he did, our state department might have to blame another embassy attack on it.

3/18/2013 10:24:08 AM

Just blur him out, especially while he's having sex with an 9 year old.

Man why the fuck is anyone religious?

3/18/2013 10:43:07 AM

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"Why does there have to be an H2? Why not just air documentaries on H1."

much like MTV2 it won't belong until there is zero history on History. so take what you can get.

3/18/2013 10:59:05 AM

3/18/2013 11:04:11 AM

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"So when do we get to see the same kind of production for the Koran?"

There's not as much actual narrative.

3/18/2013 11:40:53 AM

i feel like roma downey was hotter before she had all the work done...she looks rough

3/19/2013 8:53:22 AM

http://www.amazon.com/Story-God-All-Us-Miniseries/dp/1455525588
They made a novelization of The Bible.

And that's all I have to say about that.

3/26/2013 7:08:10 PM

Holy Shit.

3/26/2013 7:58:02 PM

I seem to remember the commercials saying it was "The greatest story ever told" so obviously they are being upfront about it not being fact but just a book full of stories.

3/27/2013 9:16:05 AM

Lol at the reviews for that book. Lots of reviews from trolls.

3/27/2013 11:04:01 AM