Ang Tamang Daan (2001)

Country

Philippines

How it feels

A religious organization hosts a program that first debated the claims of another group about its beliefs. It later shifted to answering emailed questions about its doctrines.

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What happens

Ang Tamang Daan (lit. 'The Right Path') is a program produced by the Philippine-based religious organization, Iglesia ni Cristo, and aired over their television stations, NET25 and Iglesia ni Cristo Television. Originally, the Iglesia ni Cristo debates and rebukes claims made by fellow Philippine religious organization Ang Dating Daan or MCGI and their presiding minister, Eliseo Soriano, about the beliefs of the Iglesia ni Cristo, primarily regarding the deity of Jesus Christ. Currently, it became a question and answer program about the doctrines of the INC through by e-mail messages by non-members. The name of the program is probably meant to be a pun of the name of Ang Dating Daan, which is Tagalog for "The Old Path", with the INC claiming their program, Ang Tamang Daan is "The Right Path". Relations between the two groups have been perennially strained, and both organizations use their respective television programs as well as other media to present "evidence" which they believe shows contradictions in each other's teachings. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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