6. "I Remember The Original Between You And Me What Really Happened..."
In the Easter special Planet Of The Dead, the Tenth Doctor complains that the movable Christian feast isn't his favourite festive time of the year before implying that the first Easter (in the Christian sense) didn't happen the way tradition records it. Queue furious complaints from some quarters that this was an unnecessary attack on the Christian belief in the death and resurrection of Jesus. Some cited Russell T Davies' open atheism and even claimed there was a hidden agenda in play. The old wounds reopened when in last year's Christmas special, Father Christmas was allowed to be real for fear of dashing childhood dreams. Does the show treat religious beliefs disrespectfully by comparison? Of course there isn't a singular historical record of the first Easter, only multiple religious interpretations and the Doctor doesn't actually say what "really" happened, leaving it completely open-ended. At least Christians can take heart that in the Doctor Who universe there is a historical Jesus, since the Doctor was apparently there at his birth too (Voyage Of The Damned).