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And no doubt everyone is waiting with baited breath to see how the Bishop of Down and Dromore evaluates the media.

Really, truly, honestly, I am rendered almost speechless.

Looks like you're going to heaven though William!

Will, I think you need more overt atheist broadcasting on Radio Ulster. I listened to TFTD this morning and almost barfed over my steering wheel!

I dont know what all the fuss is about. Baywatch is on.

Why not watch 'The Long Good Friday'?

The best British gangster film of all time.

My Mom plays 10 commandments every Good Friday/holy week. And she's been doing that since we're young...:)

My mother has told me to record "NCIS" on Five tonight - Doc Martin is on ITV1 at the same time - an indication of a minor improvement in the TV fare from recent Fridays, as we usually watch Five.

The idea of the Bishop that we should turn off our TV sets in protest is a somewhat ludicrous idea to say the least, if he applied this standard of equivalence to the Irish churches this Easter Sunday morning his church and nearly every other church would be empty, for the reason being that the C.O.I. have nothing on offer for the lost sheep, the alienated, the marginalised, the hungry, the thirsty, and the down trodden souls in our society which the churches have forgotten about. That is the reason why the churches are nearly empty on Sunday mornings if they have not already been closed and sold off.

Yes I would like to see my religious appetite fed by the 大象传媒 and other TV companies, but that is not going to happen because the TV companies have a worldly humanistic agenda to feed the sinful desires of man hearts, which is contrary to feeding his spiritual need which is the business of the churches, in which they have miserably failed in their commission, and when the clergy realise this they might consider offering a spiritual nosebag from their pulpits to feed the hungry to quench the thirsty and to bridge the gap between the church and the alienated lost sheep in their parishes.

The Bishop complained that F1 had been given preference on Palm Sunday over the usual Palm Sunday service that may have been the case that the service was kicked off, but one can see the spirituality in the race even if the Bishop can鈥檛, if he spent more time reading the Bible instead of reading the Radio Times, and watching TV, he might discover the spirituality that is in a race.

鈥渁nd let us run with endurance the race that is set before us鈥�

Knowing William Crawley's interest in Abraham Lincoln, here is something that is not a waste of television, C-Span's coverage of the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the Birth of President Lincoln by the President and Congress of the United States at the Capitol Rotuna.



The video clip runs a little over an hour.

There are lots of quotes of Lincoln's words.

Puritan, good to have you back old bean. Yup - nosebags etc. Eminently suitable for the docile domesticated dumb animals that churches like to keep in the spiritual byre. Some of us wild creatures like to forage and hunt for our nutrition in the great wide open, and experience the joy and wonder of freedom.

The sun is shining; it's a beautiful morning. If it's like this next Sunday, don't bother going to church - go up the coast or down to the Mournes or something. "Blueprint" from the Wide Open Spaces was a more meaningful piece of programming to "feed the soul" than any vapid "Songs of Praise" from Boringcaster Cathedral. :-)

Helio

I think you are overcritical of Songs of Praise. I forced myself to watch it yesterday and it was very colourful indeed.
There were loads of blue rinses.

im not a songs of praise fan, but it's very different these days. one evening we'll tune in to find it being presented by Richard Dawkins.