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NeoGreen

(4,031 posts) Mon Mar 25, 2019, 08:49 AM Mar 2019

Christian Moms Group: TBS Comedy Show Is "Misleading Viewers" About the Bible

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/03/22/christian-moms-group-tbs-comedy-show-is-misleading-viewers-about-the-bible/

Christian Moms Group: TBS Comedy Show Is “Misleading Viewers” About the Bible
By Hemant Mehta, March 22, 2019

The evangelical Christian group One Million Moms (Twitter count: 3,655) is furious that a TV show satirizing God is… satirizing God.

The comedy Miracle Workers treats Heaven as a corporate workplace where God (Steve Buscemi) has lost the desire to work (and gained a desire to destroy His own creations) while an angel (Daniel Radcliffe) has to pick up the slack. Hey, it’s a TV series. You like it or you don’t.

The Moms, still furious over a sexualized Kit Kat commercial, can’t believe a TV show would use Christian mythology as a backdrop.

This show is clearly a mockery!

This disrespectful program mocking God and the Christian faith has now gone too far. TBS executives have crossed a line in misleading viewers about God and belittling the Christian faith with crude jokes and foul language. They would never air a show that defamed Muhammad in a similar fashion for fear of instant and violent reprisals.

“Misleading”? Who the hell is watching this show and expecting to see a reenactment of the Bible? (Wait till they find out God isn’t friending anyone on Facebook, either.)

This show isn’t “mocking” Christianity. It’s taking a well-known myth and using it to talk about larger societal issues. It wouldn’t work as well with any other religion.

Blasphemy or taking a well-known myth and using it to talk about larger societal issues?

Or, both?

You decide.

And if you decide it's Blasphemy...so what?

Don't watch it, go read your book again.
But don't you dare try to stop me, I'm going to watch it anyway.

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Christian Moms Group: TBS Comedy Show Is "Misleading Viewers" About the Bible (Original Post) NeoGreen Mar 2019 OP

What is really being said: "This Program Makes Me Uncomfortable!" MineralMan Mar 2019 #1

Wait till they hear about "Good Omens" coming to Amazon Docreed2003 Mar 2019 #2

Just remember kids, blasphemy is just as bad as racism Major Nikon Mar 2019 #3

I watched about half of the MuseRider Mar 2019 #4

'Yes'... NeoGreen Mar 2019 #5

Thank you! MuseRider Mar 2019 #7

What's next for Hollywood? Or is it Atlanta with TBS? Pope George Ringo II Mar 2019 #6

That's one of the ways you can tell the difference between fundies and liberals. trotsky Mar 2019 #8

MineralMan

(146,331 posts)

1. What is really being said: "This Program Makes Me Uncomfortable!"

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 08:59 AM

Mar 2019

"How dare you do that! I insist that it be taken of the air immediately!"

Docreed2003

(16,876 posts)

2. Wait till they hear about "Good Omens" coming to Amazon

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 09:14 AM

Mar 2019

That will completely blow their mind!

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

3. Just remember kids, blasphemy is just as bad as racism

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 09:49 AM

Mar 2019

MuseRider

(34,120 posts)

4. I watched about half of the

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 10:22 AM

Mar 2019

first show and thought it was just horrible and stopped my TV from recording it. Dreadful is what I thought. None of that had anything to do with religion, I do not care one bit for organized religion.

So, does this mean I should try it again? Is it really good and I was just pissy that night?

NeoGreen

(4,031 posts)

5. 'Yes'...

Reply to MuseRider (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 10:38 AM

Mar 2019

...but, to each their own. If you don't like it, it may just not be your cup of tea.

MuseRider

(34,120 posts)

7. Thank you!

Reply to NeoGreen (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 10:57 AM

Mar 2019

I will try it again. I love Buscemi and wanted to like it. Hopeful it fits, it must have just been a bad evening, lol. Lots of those these days.

Pope George Ringo II

(1,896 posts)

6. What's next for Hollywood? Or is it Atlanta with TBS?

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 10:53 AM

Mar 2019

Are they going to behead xians and throw them off buildings? Is there no end to the persecution xians must endure in America?

trotsky

(49,533 posts)

8. That's one of the ways you can tell the difference between fundies and liberals.

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2019, 11:19 AM

Mar 2019

Fundies and other extremists have no sense of humor.

And it should be noted that one can be a political liberal but a religious extremist. Buscemi knows we've had a few in this group from time to time.

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