In an interview with the Daily Telegraph at the end of October, marking 60 years of the Today programme on Radio 4, John Humphrys said that the three-minute Thought for the Day was ‘deeply, deeply boring’ and irrelevant in a country now with few practising Christians.
Both Humphrys and Justin Webb said they were tired of hearing the message that ‘Jesus was really nice’. Webb said that the message always seems to be ‘let’s be nicer to each other’, but that actually many religious people (not just Christians) ‘don’t want to be nice to each other…it really annoys me.’
Charade of neutrality
This is another piece of evidence that the trumpeted ‘neutrality’ of the BBC and its reporting is a mere charade. The BBC is mostly a preacher of secularism, broadcasting continuously to the nation. No wonder, at a human level, the number of believers has shrunk. Faith is given just three minutes each day, but even that is too much for these presenters who seem to look down from the great height of their supposed superiority on anyone with a faith.
What else can we say?
Interestingly, although other religions contribute to Thought for the Day it was Christianity they particularly picked on. Also the complaint that they always hear ‘Jesus was really nice,’ is a travesty. What else would those contributing to the programme be allowed to say? The editors have totally distorted Christ. They would not allow anything of Christ’s message that was not considered politically correct to be broadcast, and definitely not his warnings of judgment and the urgent need to be saved.
Would Jesus be invited?
This ‘nice’ Jesus, who is full of grace and truth, is God become man, claims to be the only way to heaven and is actually the person in the New Testament who has most to say about hell. So convinced about judgment was he that he died to save us.
If he were here in person I can’t see the BBC giving the Lord Jesus an invitation to speak on ‘Thought for the Day’ – can you?’
