vovat | Divine Ignorance

As I accidentally previewed on my blog, I'm going to say something related to that Banned from the Bible special on the History Channel. If you recall, I mentioned watching and enjoying it, and someone found my blog by searching for information about it. When I looked at their search results, I noticed this page, where people were objecting to the special. The guy who started it all says, "Whether it’s Easter or Christmas we are bombarded with documentaries that try to debunk our faith." I'm sorry, but I saw most of the program, and I don't recall anything trying to debunk anyone's faith. Maybe that was in the few minutes I missed. :P He claims that "[t]he documentary treats the Gnostic Gospels and other pseudo-Scriptural books as equalivalent to the Bible, ignoring the supernatural reality of divine authorship, and even gives credence to some of the stories that these books purport to tell." So saying that these books could have been in the Bible "gives credence" to them? I fail to see how that's the case. Since the guy goes on to accuse such documentaries as "sow[ing] doubt in people's minds," I'm inclined to believe that he would prefer that people not know that these rejected books even exist, thereby keeping the religious faithful ignorant. Now, I'm not religious, but, if God DOES exist, doesn't it seem like He'd be more impressed by someone who did research, weighed the evidence, considered the options, and THEN decided to believe than by someone who believes simply because that's all they know? Oh, well. Mysterious ways and all that, I guess.