Monday 26 May 2008

"Jesus: The Missing History" - Discovery Channel documentary

I'd caught this documentary ("Jesus: The Missing History") on Discovery Channel (Asia) today, and was very impressed by the host, biblical scholar Kent Dobson, raising very important topics that critically questions the authenticity of the scriptures concerning Jesus. The documentary even ended with Dobson talking about how his study into Jesus' history had made him cast doubt on his beliefs, and even challenged his faith, which I felt was very remarkable for Dobson to do on a globally syndicated program.

I googled the net trying to see if the video of this documentary is available on YouTube. I couldn't find any, but instead learnt an unexpected piece of news. Apparently, after this documentary was broadcast in the US on March 16, Kent Dobson was forced by his school, the Northpointe Christian High School, to resign from his teaching post on March 27:

http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/04/on_historical_jesus_video_oust.html

Dobson's unfortunate experience seems to resemble a Christian version of "Expelled".

Although Dobson is a man of faith, as a teacher, he is not afraid to teach his students to think critically and to ask hard questions. On the documentary, he comes across as an honest, sincere and earnest person, and I think that one day, he will have an epiphany like Prof Bart Erhman or ex-Reverend Dan Barker, and realise that we can all be moral and good people without having to believe that Jesus is a god.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is a tremendously useful documentary for all people to see. It helps to have real history to support our beliefs, not just the dogma foisted upon us by religionists. Bravo to the producers!