Watch Fr. Roderick in Dutch TV-show ‘Wat Nu’?
On July 30, 2007, Fr. Roderick was one of the guests during the premiere of a new summer prime-time tv-show called ‘Wat Nu?’ (’What Now?’). ‘Wat Nu?’ is a talk show about the news of the day, illustrated by internet clips.
You can watch the show online by clicking HERE (choose ‘afspelen’ for the July 30 show).
Thank you for sharing this! I wish I understood Dutch. Your ‘Dutch for Beginners’ segment will have to be extra long today.
But from what I could tell, it went very well. It reminded me of the shows in the US that my family calls “The Talking Heads” shows.
I absolutely love that video of bush and blair “singing” to each other.
great job father.
I don’t speak Dutch, but with my limited German, I could pick out a word here and there since there seem to be similarities between the two tongues.
Fr. Roderick you’re a star!
I watched it and I was SO glad that Fr. Roderick had the same opinion as I have on the EO’s decision to censor certain documentaries. Liked the show, plan to watch it tonight on national TV
Although at first I thought it started of a bit slow. (but what do you expect it was the first episode) I think it got much better towards the end. I also found out that they are doing a rerun of “dat zal ze leren” the back to the fifthies show Fr. Roderick participated in. so major Exposure I think
I think he supprised a lot of people by having a complete different opinion then the EO director on the censoring activities.
The problem is that EO represents the fundamentalists. Most members are fundamentalist evangelicals and therefore most people hear only their opinions, because the majority of the christians (normal evangelicals, liberal christians and catholics) don’t want to be associated with those opinions.
Most people don’t share the fundamentalist opinion, but EO makes it look like they do. That’s really bugging me. I constantly have to defend myself against accusations people make, because those fundamentalists make such a bad PR for christianity.
So therefore I was overjoyed when I heard how Fr. Roderick reacted to it.
Nice site for a nuanced point of view: American Scientific Affiliation. They try to bridge the gap.
Science and religion aren’t opposed to each other. If I discover that what I believe the Bible tells me is scientifically wrong, the probability I interpreted the Bible wrong is bigger than the Bible itself being wrong.
But since fundamentalists claim their interpretation of the Bible is the same as the absolute truth, they get into trouble when scientific discoveries prove otherwise. Instead of being humble and acknowledge they were wrong on their interpretation, they accuse science of being bad and manipulate findings to uphold their theology. That’s bad PR. Augustine did write something about that in his commentary on Genesis…