PBS attack on Bible

The liberal media is at it again. But this time their attack is so old that as we used to say in the Old Country, "It came out of the woods on petrified crutches." Note the following quotation about the program from AFA:

The Public Broadcasting System (PBS), probably the most liberal network in America, will present a program this fall that says the Old Testament is a bunch of made-up stories that never happened. "The Bible's Buried Secrets" says the Bible is not true. It is scheduled to air on November 18.

Producer Paula Apsell said: "...It's (The Bible's Buried Secrets) designed for intelligent people who are willing to change their mind. …it will give intelligent people who want to read the Bible in a modern way a chance. If we insist on reading the Bible literally, in 25 years, nobody will read it any longer."

Among highlights of "The Bible's Buried Secrets":

• The Old Testament was written in the sixth century BC and hundreds of authors contributed.
• Abraham, Sarah and their offspring didn't exist.
• There is no archaeological evidence of the Exodus.
• Monotheism was a process that took hundreds of years.
• The Israelites were actually Canaanites.
• The Israelites believed that God had a wife.

Bible scholars will recognize the antiquity of these arguments which have been successfully defended a long time ago. I will not waste my time or yours dealing with the specifics.

Instead, I would like to suggest that PBS, National Geographic, The New York Times, and the Washington Post do an expose of the Quran or the sacred books of the Hindus. The results would be horrific. Riots would occur around the world. American embassies would burn. Each of these agencies would be forced to apologize for offending Muslims and Hindus.

But it is kosher to attack Judeo-Christianity with all the zeal of an apocalyptic evangelist. Fortunately, our God is not so small that we have to kill, maim, and burn to defend him.