Sunday, January 15, 2006
File this one in the "No, THAT'S not hypocracy!" pile.
There's this new show on the tube called the Book of Daniel. Maybe you saw it. My sister recorded it for me and I watched it. I was exhausted at the end. Every character is dysfunctional. Drug addiction. Drug selling. Alcohol abuse. Sexual hyperactivity. Sexual dysfunction. Alzheimer's. And on and on. There is no family pet because they couldn't figure out what kind of mental illness to give it.
Big deal. Oh, wait. It IS a big deal. Because the whole thing is set in a Christian frame: the lead of the show is a preacher (and a codeine fiend).
So, America being the land of the free and the home of the protesters, many Upright Christians have protested the show, saying it BLASPHEMES! I'm ok with all that. It's tradition in this country that if you say anything about Christians that doesn't being with Jesus Is My Savior and end with Amen you're a sinner and yer goin' to hell.
What gets me is Arkansas. The station carrying the show in this one little podunk town (I know that's a little redundant: podunk, Arkansas - hey I've BEEN THERE.) bowed to the rantings of their local cult (look up the definition - all organized religions are cults, doesn't matter if they serve Kool-Aid or not) and dropped the show. So another station picked it up. AND THEN CAME THE DEATH THREATS!!!
This is a brand of Christianity at its most oxymoronic. Cancel this show that offends my God or I will kill you to defend my God!
Sheesh...go take a Vicodin.
There's this new show on the tube called the Book of Daniel. Maybe you saw it. My sister recorded it for me and I watched it. I was exhausted at the end. Every character is dysfunctional. Drug addiction. Drug selling. Alcohol abuse. Sexual hyperactivity. Sexual dysfunction. Alzheimer's. And on and on. There is no family pet because they couldn't figure out what kind of mental illness to give it.
Big deal. Oh, wait. It IS a big deal. Because the whole thing is set in a Christian frame: the lead of the show is a preacher (and a codeine fiend).
So, America being the land of the free and the home of the protesters, many Upright Christians have protested the show, saying it BLASPHEMES! I'm ok with all that. It's tradition in this country that if you say anything about Christians that doesn't being with Jesus Is My Savior and end with Amen you're a sinner and yer goin' to hell.
What gets me is Arkansas. The station carrying the show in this one little podunk town (I know that's a little redundant: podunk, Arkansas - hey I've BEEN THERE.) bowed to the rantings of their local cult (look up the definition - all organized religions are cults, doesn't matter if they serve Kool-Aid or not) and dropped the show. So another station picked it up. AND THEN CAME THE DEATH THREATS!!!
This is a brand of Christianity at its most oxymoronic. Cancel this show that offends my God or I will kill you to defend my God!
Sheesh...go take a Vicodin.
# posted by Carol : 1:40 PM
