Get ready for a 30-episode “game show” all about the Bible!
In what is being billed as “a first for Facebook Live,” the The National Bible Bee Game Show premieres on Facebook Live tonight and will feature over 70 contestants competing for a total of $270,000 in prizes by showing off their “Scripture-knowledge” and reciting over 800 verses from the Bible which they’ve committed to memory.
No, this is not a joke.
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The “groundbreaking” new game show will be hosted by homophobes Kirk Cameron, Emeal Zwayne, Hanna Leary, and the Benham Brothers and promises edge-of-your-seat entertainment.
“The National Bible Bee Game Show stirs up fun, excitement, and a lot of ‘intended consequences’ in homes worldwide,” Cameron says in a statement.
“It’s a perfect combination of entertainment and edification,” Zwayne adds. “The goal really is to encourage young people in their efforts to understand God’s Word and to inspire them to internalize it, and then to impact their lives.”
The Benham Brothers are also totally stoked about it.
“Watching these young people stand and recite Scripture from memory is incredible,” David Benham says.
“And to do it with that level of boldness and confidence is truly inspiring!” his twinsie Jason adds.
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According to producers, at least 25% of Christians don’t actually read the Bible (Really?! We’re shocked!!), so they wanted to offer an entertaining way for “whole families [to] get into God’s Word to compete together or to cheer on contestants from home.”
As for why the show is premiering on Facebook Live and not, say, a real TV network, producer Bobby Downes says, “Facebook Live is the future of television. It allows us to choose our audience, pick the airtime and, most importantly, engage with the viewers as they watch this incredibly inspiring competition. Over the span of this show we anticipate 30 million people will tune in.”
So far, a Facebook event page for tonight’s big premiere has 234 RVSPs.
Check out the trailer below. Or don’t.
Mandrake
Why the disparagement about the Bible in this article? It provides entertainment for that segment of conservative religious Americans who do read the Bible or are interested. The fact that homophobes are hosting it is another matter.
ChrisK
Where is the disparagement or are you just being overly sensitive? The show is creepy.
mujerado
I see some sarcasm and maybe a little snark around the idea of the game, and of who is hosting it, and of where it’s being shown (and the as-yet disappointing level of response), but I don’t see any disparagement of the Bible. Am I missing something you can see?
dwes09
Always amazed by how regressives are unable to perceive anything without the overlay of their assumptions and imagination. Please find even one word in this article that actually disparages “the Bible” (specifically the Christian Gospels and the Tacked on though conceptually unrelated Tanakh of the Jews). “The segment of conservative religious Americans” you refer to as the audience of this program dislikes homosexual s an thinks us not worthy of either full enfranchisement as Americans or respect on a personal level. And it sees our desire for those things as “special rights”. In fact many of them hope to see our intrinsic nature re-defined as criminal again.
THEY are deserving of disparagement both in forums like this and to their faces. If you don’t understand that, I question what you are doing on this site as you are most likely one of the right wing heterosexuals who come here specifically to harass us.
natekerchel
Mandrake my old friend – where have you been? I have missed our headbutting. I think you are, as ChrisK says, being a bit ‘oversensitive’ . The article is highlighting two things mainly – the fact that the vast majority of ‘committed christians’ have only a selective knowledge of the contents of the bible and that this ‘show’ is headlined by known homophobes. Perfectly reasonable and accurate comments I think.
ChrisK
Barf. I see that religious hate has done wonders for Kirk Cameron. He looks like he’s in his 70s.
dwes09
He really does look bad! Tired and stressed out. But those folks hate the physical world and their physical bodies anyway (physical pleasure being sinful and all that). They only want to get to heaven.
dwes09
Watching this on the webpage of the sponsoring organization. Cameron really does look bad. As if he his suffering from some degenerative or terminal disease. Interesting how Christian faith (or religious faith in general) never actually protects one from anything despite the claims of the fervidly faithful that it does.
greybat
Kirk Cameron…
Didn’t he used to be in Show Business?
paul dorian lord fredine
why shouldn’t they make money off the bible? isn’t that what it’s really for? televangelists do it all the time. after all, religion is big business.
Jack Meoff
Not just televangelists. The catholic church is the richest organisation on earth and they keep their exact wealth a secret. They encourage others to donate to charity yet they hoard their wealth while people starve.
Bad Ass Biker
“25% of Christians don’t actually read the Bible”, but they “know what is in it”.
ChrisK
Pulling quotes out to bash others doesn’t count as “reading the bible”.
gjetatco
winner gets a fancy new bible set . miss 3 questions and you are nailed to a crucifix
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natekerchel
I find it weird that it seems to be acceptable to produce and broadcast a program that encourages us to believe in some all powerful invisible being who is described as ‘loving’ but who also ‘hates homosexuals’ – and Hillary Clinton. What other people choose to believe is their affair – I only object when they try to force their beliefs and life style choices on me. Which is exactly what this kind of broadcast in intended to do. Believing in some invisible ‘creator’ is a choice – being gay is not. People will say I don’t have to listen to or watch the broadcast – well that’s a given. My concern is that it is reinforcing stereotypes, encourages deluded thinking and adds to the acceptance of hate and division.
Jack Meoff
Why does nearly everyone in this video look a little indred and decidedly fashion challenged?
natekerchel
Because they are Jack.
natekerchel
I had forgotten one important point in this – money. Personally, I find the bible one of the most boring books I have ever read. I actually chose to read it in order to understand my opponents who are forever quoting it at me. But if I had not already done so, I would certainly do so now in the hope of winning the rewards. As I looked at the children taking part I wondered what their motivation was. I hope it was for the rewards. If not, then we possibly have the next generation of homophobes being trained right before our eyes.
DAVIDWILSON1
I’m a Christian who happens to be gay and I don’t see why exercising your faith is “Creepy”. Why is the media and the gay community always so down on Christianity? I don’t see Christians throwing gays off rooftops. I don’t see them forbidding women their rights or forcing them to cover their bodies in black shrouds. I don’t see them stoning people to death for adultery. Sure there’s a lot of misunderstanding between Christians and gays but the only way we’ll ever come to a place of understanding is through love. Love goes both ways!
And before I get a lot of hateful remarks, I’d like to explain that I’m a gay Christian who is married to an agnostic man and I’ve even been through the “torturous” reparative therapy program. I don’t think reparative therapy works at all but I’ve been there and done all that and don’t think I’m a Pollyanna or “taking sides” on this issue. I don’t think you have to be gay and demonize Christianity or vice versa. God is Love and we are all God’s children. We can accomplish more together than we can apart.
natekerchel
Go to Africa and look at some of the ‘Christian’ horrors carried out there against gay people. Don’t pretend that Christianity is all about love and peace and acceptance – far from it.