In the US recently, I found myself 'channel-hopping' in an effort to locate a serious programme.
Eventually, I came across one that seemed to be what I was looking for: three newsreaders giving an oversweep on the week's world events. However, the longer I watched, the clearer it became that this programme was not quite what I had expected.
Fair enough, it carried plenty of news items, but I soon realised that straightforward news and analysis were not the main agenda. In fact, when all the three presenters were really on about was identifying particular world happenings as fulfilments of various biblical prophecies and therefore as signs of the end times. The claims ranged from the obviously wrong to the downright stupid.
