British docs on TV

They have some amazing documentaries on TV here, and I am not just saying so cause I find no fault with their culture as usual(Dickens check, Austen check, Brontes check, David Lean check, free museums check, Vivienne Westwood check etc you get my point). I watched alternatively "The Lost Children of China" and "The End of the World Cult" both fascinating in their own way.
The Lost Children was a re-run I was happy to catch as we had intense discussions at school of the Madeleine McCann case in the beginning of the term and why there's nothing much on other children who go missing. Not case in point the Channel 4 doc. The film presents a chilling fact of contemporary China, a country whose one-child per family policy led it into the gripes of a crisis in female population. Mature men - and not just the grossly old - have to pay for brides and traffickers have it quite easy as poor families have no means of finding them or feed them. In some cases it seems like a win-win situation for both adult parties. We don't really know how hard some of the kidnapped kids have it. The lucky ones are sold for work and not sexual slavery. And just like one brave detective who tracks these children says, it's dangerous to try rescuing them because the abductors see them as their property - poverty erases any moral issues. The more shocking scene, at least to me and if they translated it correctly, is this guy who was a former convict who muses while on camera that maybe he should do some traficking here and again because he heard one could fetch a much better price than when he was in the business. I found the cold bloodness absolutely horrifying. Imagine these people live among us too , it's not something endemic to Chineses society. And they have no qualms of making a buck off someone else's misery.
The other doc was fairly brave in penetrating the world of a so-called Messiah in Idaho (of course, as always they have all the answers in the States) and spending three weeks with him and his followers as they wait for the end of the world on October 31, 2007. Yeah, you guessed what happened to that prophecy. Michael Travesser promised a bunch of people that the end of the world will come and they will live without sin forever. The group of 56 has been living in a compound called Strong City separate from the world. Their irritating permanent smiles seem to hide something deeper than blind stupidity. It's understandable being disappointed with the world and distancing yourself from it. Honestly. What is wrong here is how children-now teenagers who have been born on the compound stubbornly refuse to stay with their parents (who had made that choice for them in the first place but realized what was really going on) and go back to Strong City like courier pigeons thinking that it was actually an active choice.
Also ridiculous is the moment Michael explains why he had to "consumate" several times with his son's wife. Apprently God forced him to. In the meantime, the clever cameraman catches the son leaning his head against the wall as he hears his father talking about this act of adultery. His faith has clearly been crushed more than a few times in his life by a man whose ego is too big to let go of those who worship him. After the obviouls failure during the first End of the World, Michael set a new date - 15 December 2007 - in less than two days. Let's see how that goes. I wish the producers of this material had stuck around for a bit more and gotten the believers' comments after the second deadline. What excuses could they come up with? At least they didn't commit suicide like the journalists were worried they would.
Conclusion: too much faith in the word of God through the voice of Man is bad and too little faith in God is not so much of a picnic either. Deep, eh? Ne c'est pas, mon petit grenouille?
PS: I could not bear putting the publicity images related to those two docs, so instead I picked a photo of a cat that looks a bit lost in the night.