New Meaning to the term ECUMENICAL
It seems there is a new game show in Turkey. It is very ecumenical. In fact I can imagine why an American company didn't think of it first. Here it is, as described by the Washington Monthly:
Reader R.K. alerted me to a very strange new gameshow in Turkey in which a Muslim imam, a Christian priest, a rabbi, and a Buddhist monk try to convert a group of atheists. "The prize for converts will be a pilgrimage to a holy site of their chosen religion -- Mecca for Muslims, the Vatican for Christians, Jerusalem for Jews and Tibet for Buddhists." The name of the show is "Penitents Compete," and is expected to begin airing in September.
Must be a last ditch effort to make the EU accept them as Europeans.
Hi Birsen!
posted by Clemens @ 1:36 PM
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I'm pretty darn sure I read about this game show in the Russian Primary Chronicle. Isn't this how Vladimir the Russian Viking chose to covert himself (and this all the Kievan Rus)to Orthodox Christianity? As I recall, it was the unmatched splendor of Byzantine art that sealed the deal for him.
Now that you mention it - it also sounds like the story of how the Khazars became Jewish.
I'll write a post about it.
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