The Apostles' Creed (Not the Nine O'Clock News)

Hilarious! Pretty much sums up my own mental reservations when saying the Creed. (not sure I believe in the Loch Ness Monster though...!)

Also, this sketch does show how much English society has changed in the last 30 years. I doubt if you would get a sketch about the Apostles' Creed and the BCP on prime time TV nowadays. You might as well make a sketch about a finer point of Moonie or Scientology doctrine for all the 'relevance' it would have to contemporary British audiences.

Nice and hilarious! :)

Probably the best known edited version of the Bible is that of Thomas Jefferson. His idea was to drop the prescientific whoppers and preserve the heart of Jesus' teaching.

I think you will find that that was done by the Eastern Churches as much as by the Western ones in the days before the great schism. First translation was into Syriac, long before Latin.

The Catholic Church put together an EDITED version of the Bible, which emmited several 'controversial' gospels and twisted it to suit their views. Ever heard of Thekla? Emmited from the Bible because it empowered women and did not portray men in a flattering light.

People believing the Bible is the word of God- especially as it contradicts itself at every turn- is frankly ludicrous in this day and age. It belongs in the time when we burnt people as witches and thought the earth was flat

This is simply not true. Even secular literary scholars do not agree with this rhetoric. Unfortunately, this kind of thing is closer to fiction like the Da Vinci Code than a well reasoned opinion. It is also very close minded.

You're correct. I don't know why people had given you 4 thumbs down.  They must not like the truth.

Um, dude.  The Catholic Church was the church that compiled the Bible. The Bible did not exist as such until the Church chose which books of which it should consist. You make it sound as though the completed Bible was in existence before the Catholic Church and the Church made changes. Not so.

By the way, it's "omitted" not "emitted." To emit means something very different to omit. To emit means to exude or release, to omit means to leave out.

This sketch is not mocking God, but pointing out a change in language in the different versions of the Prayer Book. 1547, 1550, 1660, 1928 (the first modern rendering of Elizabethan/restoration English) then in the 60s and 70s Series1, series 2 and Series 3. It was quite common for churchgoers to joke that the Lord's Prayer in Series 10 would be "Hiya, God" and the General Cofession reduced to "Sorry, Father".More widely, the issue is the rôle of the Church in world concerns, women priests etc

This is hilarious. I love Anglicans, if for nothing else than a good laugh.

Props to you, btw, for the defense. ;)