CAMERON DENOUNCES “BOOK OF DANIEL”
Pro-family Leader Faults Homosexual Writer for Blasphemy/Pro-gay Portrayals:
Dr. Paul Cameron, chairman of Family Research Institute, Inc. of Colorado Springs, is conducting Talk Show interviews, denouncing NBC’s new television show, “The Book of Daniel” and calling upon NBC to cancel the program and issue a letter of apology to all Americans for trying to corrupt our society.
NBC’s Daniel is a far cry from the biblical hero Daniel of the Bible who was an undefiled, devoted follower of God who chose to be thrown into the lion’s den rather than bow to King Nebuchadnezzar’s statue.
The message of the program is simple: Christians are bad and homosexuals are good. Sub-theme: Christians are hypocrites whose preaching does not translate into their daily lives. In contrast, the new “super gender”, the homosexuals, are persecuted simply for being true to who they are.
Dr. Cameron rhetorically asked, “Given the theme of this show, is it any surprise that it was written by a homosexual?”
ABOUT DR. PAUL CAMERON…
Dr. Paul Cameron is a Researcher/Clinician and a reviewer for the prestigious Canadian Medical Association Journal and has been a Reviewer for: American Psychologist and British Medical Journal. He has advance expertise in philosophic, economic, and sexual factors as they bear upon personal & collective health and cultural viability.
Having received his Ph.D from The University of Colorado in Social Personality Psychology, Dr. Cameron is a leading expert on sexual and homosexual research, trends and behavior.
Since 1982 Dr. Cameron has been the chairman of Family Research Institute, Inc. of Colorado Springs. He has taught courses on human sexuality, counseling, marriage & the family, personality and gerontology.
SYNOPSIS/CRITIQUE OF EPISODE ONE OF “THE BOOK OF DANIEL”:
Right off the bat, pill-popping Episcopal Priest Daniel Webster is at the police station, posting bond for his pot-selling daughter named Grace.
Parenthetically, his other children are named Adam and Peter. Notice how Jack Kenny, the homosexual writer, purposely chose very Biblical names for the various sin-celebrating characters as a way to suggest that all Christians are wild-eyed hypocrites.
When the policeman on duty makes a wisecrack, suggesting that Daniel Webster, a founding father, is posting bond for his lawbreaking daughter, Webster clarifies that he wasn’t one of the founding fathers.
He’s right. That was Noah Webster.
But Daniel Webster was one of our five greatest senators, served three presidents as secretary of state and was arguably America's finest orators around the time of the Civil War.
Ironically, in light of the sacrilegious, un biblical fictional TV character, the real Daniel Webster had this to say:
* "If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity."
* "Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary."
* "If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy, If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end."
The real Daniel Webster is a far cry from the NBC fictional Daniel Webster who cusses like a sailor, and, despite being a pastor, uses the Lord’s name in vain with not one thread of contrition.
I counted a fair amount of profanity. They featured the “d” word 6-8 times, the Lord’s name taken in vain several times, the “a” word a couple of times and the “b” word 3 times.
When Rev. Webster expresses his anger about the fact that his brother-in-law had stolen $3.5 million from the church treasury, he says, “I’m the one who hired that [Lord name in vain] guy. No, I am not taking the Lord’s name in vain. I actually want God to damn him.”
Toward the end of the first episode, Rev. Webster’s daughter Grace, startled that her father knocked on her bedroom door to talk with her, uses the Lord’s name in vain. Momentarily, Webster thinks that Grace can see Jesus standing in the hallway.
In his pulpit, Father Webster says, “If temptation comes to us, maybe we shouldn’t beat ourselves up. Maybe we shouldn’t ask for forgiveness from the church, from God until we can forgive ourselves.”
Not very sound theology. No, we do need to repent, asking God to forgive us first and foremost.
Father Webster says, “It’s unrealistic to expect people not to give in to temptation.”
Unrealistic? Not with the power of the Holy Spirit whom Jesus sent for precisely that reason.
Certainly every family member is giving in to temptation, and in a big way. Adam is having sex with the Bishop’s 15-year-old daughter in the back of the car. Peter is having sex with his homosexual partner. Grace is selling marijuana. Rev. Webster is popping pain pills. His wife is a drunk. And his lesbian secretary is having sex with his sister-in-law.
I have no objection to the depiction of Christians who struggle with and give in to sin. But this Pastor appears to be rationalizing his collective dysfunctional family’s choice to sin. There is no remorse, no sorrow, no repentance. Just bold, unashamed sin. What happened to the plumb line of Scripture and its call upon our lives as Christians?
This pastor also approves of euthanasia.
After the church service, Rosemary, a parishioner, says, “I hate seeing her suffer like this. I’m going to make them turn off those d--- machines.” Father Webster says to his adopted Chinese son Adam, “Mrs. Barlow’s mom has to be taken off life support.” Later at the hospital, after they have “pulled the plug” she clearly opens her eyes, recognizes the priest, as Webster says, “It’s okay Jean. You can let go now.”
So much for the Biblical sanctity of human life! How sad!
Take a closer look at the misguided theology of Rev. Daniel Webster.
At the memorial service for his embezzling brother-in-law, Father Webster says, “Life’s hard for everyone. That’s why there’s such a nice reward at the end of it. Charlie is at his reward now. And may God rest his soul.
Amen.”
Implying that everyone gets to heaven whether they have accepted Christ as Savior or not.
So much for John 14:6 which says “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
There’s no sense of Biblical balance from those in spiritual authority over Rev. Webster.
The Vicar’s office features a HUGE display of alcohol in the middle of her office in fancy glassware, much as you’d see on a soap opera set. Then, she indicates that after dinner, she and a church colleague are going to see “Hairspray” – a musical which celebrates cross-dressing.
Not to mention the fact that when Rev. Webster expresses an interest in discussing the Bible, she cites her liberal Ivy League academic credentials over any reference or belief in the inerrancy of the Holy Scripture.
The dysfunctional collection of characters is not limited to the church officials, but include his immediate family in some dramatic ways.
After Adam, the Chinese adopted teenage son has finished having sex with 15-year-old Caroline in the back of the family car while parked in the garage, his sister Grace opens the kitchen door into the garage as Caroline is putting back on her shirt.
Grace asks, “Magic with the ladies?”
Incredibly, he responds by replying, “Want to find out? We’re not actually related,” says Adam, implying an incestuous proposal.
Pretty funny, huh? Aren’t you laughing out loud?
Homosexual writer Jack Kenny’s hedonistic worldview comes through perhaps his favorite character, the 23-year-old Republican homosexual son named Peter.
Not surprisingly, Rev. Webster approves of and gives his blessing to Peter ’s choice to have homosexual sex. In fact, later in the second episode which aired Friday night, Rev. Webster essentially states that If the Episcopalian New Hampshire bishop is open about his homosexual preference, then son Peter has nothing to be ashamed of.
So much for the Biblical prohibition against homosexual behavior articulated in Leviticus 18:22, I Corinthians 6:9 and Romans 1.
When Peter asks, “Am I going to have to come out to you at every family meal?” his father, Rev. Webster, simply laughs.
Later Peter, the homosexual son, says “I’m driving into the city to meet Tim.”
Webster asks, “Is he someone you’re seeing?”
Peter indicates that he’s just a study buddy.
Mother says, “I never liked Josh.”
Webster says, with clear parental approval, “Maybe you’ll meet someone, maybe a male nurse.”
The mother says, “You’re young, good looking and well-off. No need to settle.” I guess he’s settling for a life-long commitment to sin against his own body prohibited by Scripture.
In a later scene, the mother says, that homosexuality is genetic. And concludes, “Peter’s happy. He’s a good boy.”
Well, as long as someone is content in their own sin, I guess that’s the only real concern. So much for the demands of Almighty God.
Homosexual writer Jack Kenny seems to revel in the details of the homosexual lifestyle.
When his brother-in-law is found, who stole $3.5 million worth of the church building budget, they indicate that he was found naked in a hotel room with “several diverse objects found in his rectum” implying that he ran off with the money with some homosexual partner.
Webster’s wife asks, “Did they at least find the money?”
Webster says, “No, and apparently they looked everywhere.”
Oh my. More side-splitting NBC humor!
But what about the way NBC treats the character of Jesus?
There is one positive note. This particular dialogue was refreshing.
“Why do you talk to me?” asks Webster of Jesus.
“I talk to everybody, but most don’t listen,” says Jesus.
But sadly the Jesus invented by NBC is not the Jesus of the Bible. He does not appear to have omniscience, the knowledge of all.
For example, when Rev. Webster asks Jesus where the church’s embezzled money is, Jesus says, “I’m not a fortune teller. Let it play out.”
Fortune tellers are either frauds or satanically inspired. In that sense, Jesus is neither.
At the end of the pilot, Father Webster is startled that his sister-in-law and her husband’s presumed mistress are giggling over coffee at the sister-in-law’s kitchen table. Webster peaks in the window and does a double take.
Jesus appears in the driveway next to Webster and says, “You never know, do you?” – implying again that He, Jesus, is not omniscient, doesn’t seem to have a clue about what’s going to happen next.
There’s no doubt. NBC’s “Book of Daniel” is “Desperate Housewives”
dressed up in a clerical collar. And, in my view, a direct attack on the body of Christ.
NOTE: A special thanks to Adam McManus for the above review/synopsis of The Book of Daniel.