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Staff Pick: Mini Monsters - The Nature of Things

Mini Monsters - The Nature of Things

A look at the astonishing and complex relationships of the "mini monsters", insects of the Membracidae family - treehoppers that live amid one of the richest ecosystems on the planet, one so mysterious most people don't even know that it exists.
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Thursday October 22 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld

Watch clip: http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Nature_of_Things_Promos/ID=1290146965

CDC Docs- the Pagan Christ

A controversial documentary that questions the existence of the historical Jesus. (Part 1 of 5) http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/paganchrist/

Author: CBCtv
Keywords: Doc Zone Jesus Christ documentary christianity

There are 2.1 billion Christians on the planet - roughly one third of the entire human population. At the heart of their religion is the New Testament and the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. To Christianity, the written word is the glue that binds the faith of its followers.

So, what if it could be proven that Jesus never existed? What if there was evidence that every word of the New Testament - the cornerstone of Christianity - is based on myth and metaphor?

Based on Tom Harpur's national bestseller, The Pagan Christ examines these very questions. During his research, Harpur discovered that the New Testament is wholly based on Egyptian mythology, that Jesus Christ never lived, and that - indeed - the text was always meant to be read allegorically. It was the founders of the Church who duped the world into taking a literal approach to the scriptures. And, according to Harpur, this was their fatal error - and the very reason Christianity is struggling today.

The mission of The Pagan Christ is not to accelerate Christianity's slow demise, but to breathe new life into its holy book and, in the process, bring the world a richer, more spiritual faith.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7StcxGM5KcA&eurl=http://www.google.com/ig&feature=player_embedded

George Goes Green, Author Chris Hedges

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George Stroumboulopoulos has a snapshot of the news each night.   http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/content/about.html

George and The Hour want to mobilize Canadians to do One Million Acts of Green. Thousands of people have already added their Acts.  http://green.cbc.ca/default.aspx

George Interviews Author, Chris Hedges-

Best-selling author and award-winning journalist Chris Hedges wades into the debate over the existence of God with his new book, "I Don't Believe In Atheists". The book is a sharp rejoinder to the likes of Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris - the "new atheists" who Hedges sees as dangerously close to the religious fundamentalists they seek to oppose. The discussion is bound to be an eye-opening one, particularly as Hedges himself has been deeply critical of organized religion in the past - particularly in his book about the Christian right, "American Fascists".( CBC George)

Author Bio
Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges is the author of the bestseller American Fascists and National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He is a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lannan Literary Fellow and has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University.(Mosaicbooks)

Video

Chris Hedges on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos: ( Persistant Link )http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/includes/player.php?id=689020389