Tuesday, March 2, 2010

BBC's Story of God

From the Tomb of Abraham, to Mount Sinai, a BBC production team had traveled great distances in location and in time, to produce a documentary they call 'The Story of God'. This particular episode was filmed in several places which are of significance to the three monotheistic religion which are explored - Judaism, Christianity and Islam. These places include The Western Wall and Holy Sepulchre Church in Jerusalem; Lakhish in Israel; St Peter's Square, San Clemente and Capitoline in Rome; Abalfazl Mosque and Imam Mosque in Isfahan; and Mecca in Saudi Arabia. They've also interviewed several prominent persons in respective religions like The Chief Rabbi and Ayatollah Mahdavi; and of course historians and authors.

Obviously any documentary wouldn't appeal to a prejudiced audience to argue its case and a version of history it wants to present. In this case, I hope we would learn much about what some call the Abrahamic Faiths from the perspective of BBC. At least the message that I'd really hope all its audience would grasp at the end of the show is that we all have to agree to disagree. Otherwise we'd be expecting another 9/11, mosque bombings and holocaust.

Does everyone wants peace? Yes? Well at least now we have a mutual agreement, let's start from there.

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