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TechnoratiMany, however, are very skeptical of the film and one group is even taking their protest over the film to Congress.
“PBS is knowingly choosing to insult and attack Christianity by airing a program that declares the Bible ‘isn't true and a bunch of stories that never happened,’” states a petition being circulated by the conservative American Family Association, which is urging Congress to stop using tax dollars to fund PBS.
“I have often said that PBS should not receive tax dollars,” says AFA founder and chairman Donald E. Wildmon, noting that Congress gives PBS hundreds of millions of tax dollars to help support the network.
"’The Bible's Buried Secrets’ is simply one more reason Congress should stop supporting PBS with our tax dollars.”
Aspell, however, argues that Nova is not out to disprove the Bible or to denigrate anyone's religious convictions.
“Our approach is simply to present the results of mainstream, peer-reviewed biblical archeology and let viewers draw their own conclusions,” she said in an interview.
Among the claims reportedly presented through "The Bible's Buried Secrets," as highlighted by the AFA, are:
• The Old Testament was written in the sixth century BC and hundreds of authors contributed.
• Abraham, Sarah and their offspring didn't exist.
• There is no archaeological evidence of the Exodus.
• Monotheism was a process that took hundreds of years.
• The Israelites were actually Canaanites.
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