The end of the world show

Abstract

"On Wednesday evening, 28 July 1999, an unprecedented event occurred. A program entitled "Seven Signs of Christ's Return" was broadcast during prime time by Australia's leading commercial television network. People who do not live in Australia and who do not have an experiential awareness of the particular brand of secularism that is endemic in Australian culture and society may not find that event particularly noteworthy. Those of us who have lived there most of our lives have found it mind boggling. Religious programming just does not happen during prime time on the major commercial networks in Australia."