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[Sir_Knight]

historychannel.com/global/listings/episode_detail_date.jsp?hp=THC&netwCode=THC&asof=12%2F27%2F2004+09%3A00PM …

HISTORY Channel airing Monday - December 27, 2004 @ 9PM EST

**Hell: The Devil’s Domain **

An in-depth History of Hades begins with the story of a negative near-death experience, in which a man thinks he went to Hell after being declared clinically dead and before resuscitation. Following Lucifer’s trail from cave paintings in France circa 6,000 BC to current portrayals in popular culture, the 2-hour exploration shows how Hell and the Devil remain powerful forces–at a church in Texas, where souls are delivered from Satan’s grip; in talks with a survivor of the 1980s recovered memory craze, who “recalled” attending Witches’ Sabbaths that practiced cannibalism; and at the modern Church of Satan. We review literary landmarks that expanded our ideas of the Underworld, from Dante’s Inferno and Milton’s Paradise Lost to Mark Twain’s anti-hero, and trace development of Christian, Moslem, Jewish, and Buddhist conceptions of the afterlife.

… Sounds like it might be interesting.

 

[Sir_Knight]

Bump … starts in a few minutes.

 

[Detroit_Sue]

I think it will rerun at 11 pm EST. I’m watching it now. Thanks!!

 

[dumspirospero]

Thank goodness for DVR…I have recorded it and i am about to watch it.

historychannel.com/global/listings/episode_detail_date.jsp?hp=THC&netwCode=THC&asof=12%2F27%2F2004+09%3A00PM … … Sounds like it might be interesting.

 

[Shiann]

I watched a good chunk of it. It seemed pretty good, it never relied on any particular religious version of hell, and went into some depth in talking about how many of the stories and descriptions of hell came from “poets not prophets”.

It embraced many religious perspectives from the evangelical to the Catholic. It did speak of Catholic issues in particular Inquisition, heretical popes, etc. So it was tainted against Catholicism a little. I guess I noticed it because I was looking for it- I was curious.

This may not have been the impression of others. Again, I watched only a part of it.

 

[gus]

Whether their agenda is it’s certainly not Historic.
I find this network extemely anti-Catholic.
In fact this channel should be renamed.

1. The Revsionsist History Channel
2. The Almost History Channel
3. The Myth Channel
4. The Hitler Channel (not mine)