We'll have the Doctor back on our screens this Christmas Day, in The Voyage of the Damned, set on the Titanic. However, it's being criticized before it's even aired. Christian groups have, quote from The Times, "expressed concern that the imagery employed was inappropriate for a BBC One Christmas evening show." Apparently at one point, he ascends through the ship's decks, carried by a pair of robotic angels. Russel T. Davies, writer and executive producer said "The series lends itself to religious iconography because the Doctor is a proper saviour", yet Stephen Green of the evangelical group Christian Voice said that "The Doctor would have to do a lot more than the usual prancing around to be a messiah. He has to save people from their sins."
So basically, these people think that a science-fiction TV shows might mislead people on issues concerning the messiah and Christianity... Do they just sit at home thinking up things to complain about? Seriously, don't they have anything better to do? There is no way that Doctor Who could ever possibly mislead kids about religion - they might well get the reference, but it doesn't mean they'll start worshiping the BBC as a religion...
Voyage of the Damned is on BBC One on Christmas Day. If you didn't know already. Which is unlikely.
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Dear god humans are idiots, especially the Bible bashing ones.
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