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AlanFromWichita
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Now I remember why I don’t watch much tv.
I have an old TV and the other day I turned it on and it won’t turn off so I’ve just left it on EWTN for a couple days and listened when I was in that room. I heard some really good sermons.
Anyway this morning there was a show on with children who were acting out a hypothetical newscast from the “World Darwin Conference,” God-forbid such a conference would take place.
First they blatantly equated belief in evolution with atheism, as if evolution absolutely implied atheism and vice versa.
Then they used obvious charactures to make the pro-Darwin scientist look klutsy, socially unaware, and physically unattractive including huge hair that moved a lot when she shook her head. The pro-Darwin scientist sported comical coke-bottle glasses and so many accoutrements that things fell off of her when she spoke. It was a gross characture that reminded me of the kind of charactures that were in vogue in Al Jolsen’s era.
Of course when the pro-God scientist came on to refute the pro-Darwin scientist she was all prim and proper and intelligent.
This broadcast was a slap in the face to people who are of lower intelligence first of all, by using charactures of them as bumbling fools, and it teaches Christian children to look at those whose beliefs differ as some kind of makeover-needed basket case. It also compared intellectual reasonableness with physical attractiveness, and did not even preserve basic dignity due any human being.
If evolution is so foolish, then educational shows might consider presenting some substantive content other than finger pointing, and characturization of other human beings who have just as much a right to their political or “scientific” opinions as the makers of this show as virtually non-human and without anything important to say.
Matt 5:22:
Alan
I have an old TV and the other day I turned it on and it won’t turn off so I’ve just left it on EWTN for a couple days and listened when I was in that room. I heard some really good sermons.
Anyway this morning there was a show on with children who were acting out a hypothetical newscast from the “World Darwin Conference,” God-forbid such a conference would take place.
First they blatantly equated belief in evolution with atheism, as if evolution absolutely implied atheism and vice versa.
Then they used obvious charactures to make the pro-Darwin scientist look klutsy, socially unaware, and physically unattractive including huge hair that moved a lot when she shook her head. The pro-Darwin scientist sported comical coke-bottle glasses and so many accoutrements that things fell off of her when she spoke. It was a gross characture that reminded me of the kind of charactures that were in vogue in Al Jolsen’s era.
Of course when the pro-God scientist came on to refute the pro-Darwin scientist she was all prim and proper and intelligent.
This broadcast was a slap in the face to people who are of lower intelligence first of all, by using charactures of them as bumbling fools, and it teaches Christian children to look at those whose beliefs differ as some kind of makeover-needed basket case. It also compared intellectual reasonableness with physical attractiveness, and did not even preserve basic dignity due any human being.
If evolution is so foolish, then educational shows might consider presenting some substantive content other than finger pointing, and characturization of other human beings who have just as much a right to their political or “scientific” opinions as the makers of this show as virtually non-human and without anything important to say.
Matt 5:22:
What would Jesus think of the idea of broadcasting a children’s show with the primary message that those who don’t think like us are foolish idiots, who are also socially inept and physically unattractive?
Alan
