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Bishop angered by Good Friday TV

The Bishop of Down and Dromore in Northern Ireland has said people should boycott television on Good Friday.
Reverend Harold Miller said he was "stunned" at broadcasters' offerings after reading TV listings for Easter.
He claimed that there were no additional religious programmes in the schedules, and those listed would "do little to feed our souls".
The BBC said it was committed to offering a wide range of religious programming at Easter.
After reading the Radio Times, the Church of Ireland bishop said he was alarmed to see broadcasters had not made any attempt to produce new religious programmes.
He said the best thing to do "is turn off our television on Good Friday".
Formula One
Bishop Miller said he would have liked to have seen more in depth religious schedules running from Palm Sunday to Good Friday, but instead "pretty well nothing" was on offer.
He pointed out that the morning service which was usually shown on Palm Sunday was "kicked off by the Formula One".
The Bishop stressed that he "no longer expects anything of religious depth from ITV," however "the BBC, as our primary public broadcaster really ought to find some way of recognising and painting the story of Good Friday".
However, he praised the output of Radio Ulster as "almost perfection when it comes to religious broadcasting".
A spokesperson for the BBC said the corporation was offering the same amount of religious output as Easter last year.
Highlights on TV include Joyful Eastertide - a Eucharist for Easter Day, followed by Pope Benedict XVI's traditional Easter message and blessing and an hour-long film for BBC Two from Howard Goodall marking the anniversary of Handel's death.
Radio 3 is broadcasting Festal Evensong live from the Queen's Free Chapel of St George in Windsor. At BBC Northern Ireland there are dedicated religious programmes over Easter on Radio Ulster including at The Cross on Holy Friday and a special edition of Sounds Classical featuring The Priests in Concert.

Well we watched a long film called "The greatest story ever told" on Channel 5 and it was the life of Jesus and the crucifixion and resurrection and was very moving.

We did not eat any meat today for Good Friday since it was the way we were brought up.

However the younger generation in our family have no such qualms and I am sorry to say hardly recognise the religious time other than to buy Easter eggs for the children. We brought them up in the Christian way but although they still believe they choose not to worship very often. At least that is the good thing about the Western world they do give people the freedom to choose how they worship or not and religion is a free choice.

At least the stores all have to close for Easter Sunday in respect.

Jan

An earlier view on the occasion for all you pagans out there:

CHOCOLATE, CHOCOLATE AND MORE CHOCOLATE!!!!!

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Flow gently, sweet Afton! amang thy green braes,
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