Bishop （人命などを）奪う，主張するs the TRUE meaning of Christmas is sitting around the telly with the family watching the depressing Eastenders festive special?

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A bishop has （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the true meaning of Christmas is sitting around the television with family and watching Eastenders and other soap オペラ characters' depressing storylines.

The Rt Rev Nick Baines, Bishop of 物陰／風下d, said rather than 集会 around the Christmas tree or pulling crackers over a turkey dinner, the season of 好意／親善 is 促進するd through families 密談する／（身体を）寄せ集めるd around the small 審査する.

He even compared the experience of people watching television together to the shepherds and wise men of the Bible travelling to see the baby Jesus.

The Rt Rev Nick Baines, Bishop of 物陰／風下d, left, said Christmas episodes of Eastenders, 権利, and other festive specials can 現実に bring families closer together as they 社債 while sitting around the television

The Bishop also compared watching Christmas telly, 含むing 載冠（式）／即位（式） Street, pictured, to the experi ences of the shepherds and wise men of the Bible travelling to 会合，会う baby Jesus?

Bishop Baines, who 議長，司会を務めるs the St ツバメ 信用 which 促進するs 宗教的な broadcasting, 勧めるd the people of the UK to put 負かす／撃墜する their phones and tablets this year and join in an activity - whether it is carol singing in the street or 審議ing the 最新の '大災害 on Eastenders'.

令状ing in the 無線で通信する Times, he said; 'In a world where anyone under 40 has to be surgically 除去するd from their 動きやすい or tablet, the 審査する on the 塀で囲む?or in the corner still has the 力／強力にする to get people to sit together and watch together.

‘Indeed, in a 最近の 投票 of 2,000 parents, watching television was seen as one of the 最高の，を越す activities for family 社債ing.’

Mrs Brown's Boys has been the Christmas ratings 勝利者 for 選び出す／独身 programmes for the past two years

Christmas specials have become a British tradition and go 支援する １０年間s, such as with Mr Bean, pictured, although millions more people used to tune in during the 1980s and 90s than do now

He 追加するd: '株d experience is always more powerful than 私的な browsing. In a world of instant news, multiplat form 見解（をとる）ing, privatised experience and customised catch-up, let’s hear it for the telly at Christmas: there’s life in the old 審査する yet.’?

The bishop said the Christmas story itself shows how people can come together, whether shepherds on a hillside or wise men from the East, and have a more enjoyable experience.

It is not the first time the Bible has been について言及するd in the same breath as Eastenders after one of the show's former 生産者s told a 2012 BBC 会議／協議会 that the 宗教上の text was an 影響（力） on the soap's storylines.

Britain's biggest television shows, 含むing Dr Who, pictured, put 抱擁する 成果／努力 into Christmas specials

Jennifer コマドリs said writers were often 奮起させるd to 令状 about redemption, sin and love by tales from the Bible such as David and Goliath, and even compared Albert Square to the Garden of Eden.

Soap オペラs 定期的に bring in big numbers of テレビ視聴者s every year, with more than 30million people watching the Eastenders Christmas episode in 1986.

But more recently those 人物／姿／数字s have dropped 意味ありげに, with Mrs Brown's Boys topping the 選び出す／独身 programme stats for the past two years with 7.6million テレビ視聴者s in 2014 and 9.4million in 2013, although the comedy was beaten by the Queen's message last year which drew in 7.8million テレビ視聴者s.