Every year the CBC offers up this garbage at Christmas with our money.

THE PAGAN CHRIST

Thursday December 6, 2007 at 9pm on CBC-TV
repeating Saturday February 9 at 10pm ET on CBC Newsworld
There are 2.1 billion Christians on the planet – roughly one third of the entire human population. At the heart of their religion is the New Testament and the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. To Christianity, the written word is the glue that binds the faith of its followers.

So, what if it could be proven that Jesus never existed? What if there was evidence that every word of the New Testament – the cornerstone of Christianity – is based on myth and metaphor?

Based on Tom Harpur’s national bestseller, The Pagan Christ examines these very questions. During his research, Harpur discovered that the New Testament is wholly based on Egyptian mythology, that Jesus Christ never lived, and that – indeed – the text was always meant to be read allegorically. It was the founders of the Church who duped the world into taking a literal approach to the scriptures. And, according to Harpur, this was their fatal error – and the very reason Christianity is struggling today.

The mission of The Pagan Christ is not to accelerate Christianity’s slow demise, but to breath new life into its holy book and, in the process, bring the world a richer, more spiritual faith.
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Sick Daze at CBC

According to government Access to Information documents obtained by Sunmedia, CBC spent $15 Million for employee sick days in 2006/07. A majority of those sick days went to the French CBC radio and TV staff in Quebec.
Canadians pay approximately $500 each per year for 'cultural concepts' like museums, libraries, etc. but around 80% of that money goes to the CBC, CRTC and Can. Television Fund.
Studies have shown that cultural spending is overwhelmingly consumed by the well-to-do and paid for by the masses of poorer people who don't even listen to or watch the wasteful public broadcaster.
Snubbing its’ nose at rural Canada, CBC is well known for promoting 'alternate' and radical feminist life choices in its’ broadcasts such as airing the first live homosexual 'wedding' on a cold Sabbath day in Feb/04 and avoiding equal time for differing opinions.
We're happy for the 6% of Canadian elites who actually view CBC but the majority of us are fed up with our public funds going to pay for utter stupidity, biased, agenda-driven reporting, huge salaries and in case I didn't mention it, biased, agenda-driven reporting. On top of all that we have Public Television with its’ own agendas.
CBC may have been relevant 50 years ago when there was a shortage of information networks but today, with a broad variety of providers, plus the internet, the CBC has become a Billion dollar a year, obsolete and unnecessary yoke on Canadian taxpayers who prefer to spend their money on their own choices, like any other charity.
Since when is it the publics responsibility to support a socialist enterprise that losses hundreds of millions of dollars every year? At a time when the real market industry is looking for financial support, it is irresponsible for our government to be pouring our money into frivolous enterprises like the arts and entertainment world.
CBC content is made in the big cities, for the big cities and, like all of the pollution they send us, is unneeded and unwanted by most rural citizens.
If our cultural elites want to listen to classical radio and watch 'Steve and Chris' every day, let them pay for it, sick days included.

The Women Who Have Abortions, and the Love They Need

by Dr. Jeff Mirus At Catholic Culture

The November/December issue of Envoy Magazine includes an article by Jane Brennan, entitled “How Could She Do That?”, about what motivates a woman to have an abortion. Jane herself had two abortions, worked with Planned Parenthood, and helped her sister get an abortion before she finally began to reevaluate everything she believed. Now she does pro-life counseling.

The article is not a statistical analysis; it is simply Jane’s own story. For Jane, feminist ideology, the lies of abortionists and their advertisements, limited understanding of the biological and metaphysical issues, widespread social acceptance, abusive relationships both as a child and as an adult, and a deep fear that each of her first two pregnancies would ruin her life all combined to drive her into the abortion culture. After her second abortion, Jane divorced an abusive husband. She later met and married a man who treated her well. Unfortunately, she needed counseling and chose to get it from a radical feminist counselor. The result was that she generally made her husband’s life a kind of hell. But when he moved out, she was shocked and upset enough to begin questioning everything the counselor had been telling her. Jane realized she had to change. Her husband moved back in. And Jane did change, ultimately finding relief and new life in a Catholic Church.

The point of Jane Brennan’s article is that pro-lifers need to try to understand the mindset of women who get abortions, as well as the problems they experience afterwards. She feels that many pro-lifers find the decision to abort incomprehensible, and that this limits their ability to reach these women. Brennan recommends that the pro-life movement make better use of women who have had abortions (such as those in the group Silent No More) to make presentations at parishes and elsewhere which will encourage other post-abortive women to begin to turn their lives around, and help pre-abortive women to do the same. As she says in her conclusion:

Then the grim reality of how abortion shatters lives would be heard, and soon it would not be thought of as a clinical procedure or a fundamental right but the tragedy it is. This might cause people to say, “I don’t want that to happen to my daughter, my sister, my girlfriend, or to me. In fact I don’t want abortion to happen at all.”
Brennan’s story is powerful and moving. While I think most people who work in pro-life counseling are far more sympathetic to the plight of women seeking abortions than Brennan tends to believe, there is no arguing with her recommendation that the pro-life movement should make greater use of personal testimony from those who have had abortions.

The pro-life movement also needs to make use of men who can get out the message of what it means to love. Brennan reveals this need in her own story when she notes that it was the departure of a man who actually treated her well that finally jolted her out of her self-centered, self-defeating philosophy of life. I have long argued that too many problems of contemporary women (especially the kind of problems that drive them to abortion) are caused by men who either do not know how to be men, or who refuse to be men—men who use women as toys, abandoning them when they no longer find them fun. Fathers who abuse and/or abandon their daughters; lovers and husbands who abuse and/or abandon their wives: These men are architects of insecurity and anger in women, both of which fuel feminism and a culture of death.

It is no coincidence that the wildly popular film Bella makes precisely this point; the film's hero ought to become a role model for males. My own prescription, therefore, is that in addition to inviting post-abortive women to become increasingly involved in pro-life work, we also need to recruit good men who can help spread the message of what it really means to love. Men must not only explain but demonstrate with their lives what it means to love a woman as Christ loves the Church. There will always be exceptions, and some good men have been devastated by a wife's decision to abort. Nonetheless, I think it is not too much to say that the single most important force in ending the epidemic of abortion is something men have the power to do: Love.

Our Kangaroo Courts in the Media

Is the media a credible source for information anymore?

Suppose, for a moment, that unborn babies started growing outside a woman’s womb instead of the inside. Connected by the umbilical cord until full maturity the mother could watch its progress. At any time she could cut the umbilical cord with a quick slash of a knife, killing the child. Only the mother would be personally responsible for the death.

I don’t think we would have many abortions. That difference of a few inches from the inside to the outside of the womb is literally a matter of life and death for a young child. God made the womb to be a place of holy protection for a child yet it has become a tomb for many.

Pro-abortion people have taken full advantage of the hidden child by calling it a piece of flesh but science has exposed this fraud with ultrasound pictures inside the womb. Women can now see the development of their child yet this is not enough for the pro-death media who still perpetuate the lies. If life, at any stage, has no meaning to these people, then neither does knowledge, truth and wisdom.