So is it really easy to get into television production or what? This show makes me think yes, yes it is.

Except the Bible specifically states that only Noah and his family survived the Flood. If we take the Bible at its word, as Christians are expected and encouraged to do, then incest is the only option to repopulate the Earth.

And the Bible mostly talks about them commiting fornication in general. Homosexuality was only mentioned when the men of the city of Sodom wanted to have sex with the angels.

It's also hilarious to visualize that all the men of Sodom (the young and the very old) were surrounding Lot's house and clamoring for a go at the angels, yet no one wanted to so much as touch his virgin daughters. The girls must've been ugly as hell to be virgins in that city.

...and there lies the problem. People take that shit literary like it's the last word on anything.



LOL Yeah, that desert weather can really fuck your skin up. Their skin was probably all weathered and dried up.

Man all I know about this stuff is from classic rock. I was ready for Abraham to say Man you must be putting me on.

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I can't decide if it supports your point or not, but the producer of this series is also the producer of Survivor, The Voice, and Celebrity Apprentice.

samson was a jew and they made him black?

That was a stretch but my hunch is that the producers wanted an African-American actor to appear relatively early in the series in a primary role, to market it towards the large Christian community among African-Americans.

Sammy Davis Jr was black and he was a jew.

And, if you think about it people living in the desert would be a few shades darker than those like the Vikings living in Scandinavia.

Now that we are thru 2 episodes, and people have trashed the show beyond reason maybe some of them will drop off and those of us who enjoy the show can continue without all of the disparaging remarks and actually discuss the show.

i wouldn't say trashed. i didn't like that they didn't follow the bible to the letter.
the production is good and the acting and casting of david and saul was very good.

We are church people, and we stopped watching after the first episode. If you want a cool, Bible-based television show, watch "Kings", which is a contemporary retelling of the story of David and Saul.

He was a jew by religion, not by blood...as far as I know.

My favourite part so far were the ninja angels in the Sodom part of the story. The way they went all Matrix on the perverts was awesome...though that didn't happen in real life. And yes...I'm aware that some people here don't believe that anything in the bible happened in real life. So what ?

They make it sound like History did something wrong. Satan is Satan no matter the Earthly form he takes.

Or, is it a case that all black men look alike? And viewers can't tell the difference.

It was Mark Burnett's call on what he'd look like, I guess they could have gone with Dick Cheney but that'd just be over the top hilarious.

Long story short, this isn't a news story and nobody cares.

Well let's be fair - a vocal hypersensitive fringe on social media cares. Isn't the internet awesome? In the past, these people would have been offended and would have written letters or called the network and it would have gone nowhere. Now we all have to hear about it.

I'll still watch the show, but then what about that lame backlash on GOT, when GWB's head was on a pike? That was such a non-issue that the rightwing whackos went nuts on and HBO placated and removed the insert and commentary mention from all future pressings.

Just sayin'.

Honestly, it was likely done on purpose by the producers so the media firestorm would generate press for the show.

Burnett employs publicity stunts in all of his reality shows.

The History Channel says in a statement Monday:

“The Bible” Executive Producers, Mark Burnett & Roma Downey said Monday:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczyn...e-barack-obama

Is that really Satan or the Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars?

So they did not have to use what actors they had lying around?

I'm just waiting for "The Justice Bros...Jesse & Al" to call for protest against "The Bible" and saying having a Black Man as satan is racist. It's only a matter of time we hear from the dear Rev. Farrakhan or Rev Wright.

The controversial episode actually ended up being the best entry in the series yet. Though apparently Daniel was hitting the gym quite frequently before he got thrown into the lion's den.

What really pissed me off was the Romans using kopis' instead of gladius. How friggin' hard is that to get right, HISTORY CHANNEL? Sheesh!