America Unearthed--The Ark of the Covenant?

[Dwyer]

Oy vey! My dad (not a Christian) is watching this America Unearthed show… They’ve moved onto pushing the Dan Brown - DaVinci Code “facts” as historical. How the Templar knights secretly brought the Ark (Mary Magdalene… rolls eyes - you know the Dan Brown rubbish)… This is firstly incredibly offensive… Would the History Channel broadcast a show that claimed Jewish authorities secretly hired Hitler to wipe out all those Jews (and Christians) to cover up some secret that the Jewish authorities didn’t want the Jews to know about? I wonder how that would fly?
And, why…if this is a program about unearthing America…are they focusing all their attention on undermining Christ and His Church? Bloody bollocks!!

My question for you dear brothers and sisters is, because I am a Catholic and only practicing Christian in my family, how might I approach my family who watch this show and may buy into it? I feel like a coward because I don’t know what to say and find I am often too quiet and not standing up for our Lord. It really hurts to see this rubbish being spewed and I feel isolated in my faith round my family. Does anyone have any suggestions?

If you are living with your Dad, I don’t think it would be your place to say anything really because it is his house and a man’s house is his Castle, etc.

I think the best you could do if you’re there while he’s watching this is watch it for 5 minutes and just say “I’m not going to watch a show like this one” and get up and leave. You could do this whenever he is watching a program like the one you described. Hopefully he asks you why you’re leaving the room, and that would start a conversation.

I think this whole Mary Magdalene in North America was scientifically debunked some years ago; one of the Cable Networks had a program where they DNA tested some of the so called “descendants the Magdalene and Jesus” and revealed the results at the end and there was no Semitic or French Carolingian blood in them or whatever; I didn’t watch the program but I remembering hearing about it.

A Vaster Wasteland on TV has Never Been.

It really depends on how well you get on with your father and how comfortable you feel talking with him.

You could maybe purchase some of the movies about JP II that were made or some other Catholic documentaries or history programs (the Catholic Media documentaries tend not to have the high budget and entertaining aspect as the junk shows on History or the other Cable Networks; but they contain Catholic Truth and even though they are low budget the programs tend to be made in a creative way ) and ask your Dad / family to watch them with you or ask them to watch shows on Catholic Television Networks like EWTN but the problem is they may not want to watch them.