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I just saw the Warrin Priests episode and I’m like 6 or so years late, but Jesus Christ (* rim shot *).
The writing is like Reddit climbed up its own butt and died there. Loudly.
It’s perfectly indicative of the way Nu-Simpsons tries to tackle complicated topics. They approach them like a mid-wit, sticky fingered child that doesn’t know it’s missing half its brain.
They try to present Ned and Lovejoy’s Biblical approach as stiff and repulsive, but Bode’s approach is to never use the Bible at all. His sermons consists of ‘I think’ ‘What if’ ‘My theory’ while none of his teachings lead you to the word.
How do you show people there are more ways to approach the word, while leading them away from it and mixing in other faiths?
I just kept asking the question. If you don’t like the book, you don’t like the teachings, and you don’t like the God of the Bible, why not just become a Buddhist or open a spiritual school that’s a mix of beliefs?
Instead, he mixes in other faiths, says God can be a he or she, and burns the Bible to make the point it’s not important. Yet somehow, Ned is supposed to be an extremist/wrong because he doesn’t agree with it. They even have him lose a lame strawman scripture-off.
It would’ve been nice if they would’ve actually studied the Bible to challenge Ned from a grounded point, but instead it’s “it’s bad because it causes division”. Ok? Jesus said he came to cause division so again, why be a Christian if the faith is so repulsive to you?
As far as Lisa. It just goes without saying if she’s happy/approves in a new episode, you’ve done something horribly wrong and need to go back to the drawing board.
I’m more offended by the writing and the lazy attempt to prop up the writers room’s “faith” than I am offended by the content.
I think if it ended with Bode realizing he’s not a Christian, but just likes engaging with different spiritual beliefs and opened a school for people like him, that would’ve done a lot more to redeem it. As it stands, nothing works.
It’s perfectly indicative of the way Nu-Simpsons tries to tackle complicated topics. They approach them like a mid-wit, sticky fingered child that doesn’t know it’s missing half its brain.
They try to present Ned and Lovejoy’s Biblical approach as stiff and repulsive, but Bode’s approach is to never use the Bible at all. His sermons consists of ‘I think’ ‘What if’ ‘My theory’ while none of his teachings lead you to the word.
How do you show people there are more ways to approach the word, while leading them away from it and mixing in other faiths?
I just kept asking the question. If you don’t like the book, you don’t like the teachings, and you don’t like the God of the Bible, why not just become a Buddhist or open a spiritual school that’s a mix of beliefs?
Instead, he mixes in other faiths, says God can be a he or she, and burns the Bible to make the point it’s not important. Yet somehow, Ned is supposed to be an extremist/wrong because he doesn’t agree with it. They even have him lose a lame strawman scripture-off.
It would’ve been nice if they would’ve actually studied the Bible to challenge Ned from a grounded point, but instead it’s “it’s bad because it causes division”. Ok? Jesus said he came to cause division so again, why be a Christian if the faith is so repulsive to you?
As far as Lisa. It just goes without saying if she’s happy/approves in a new episode, you’ve done something horribly wrong and need to go back to the drawing board.
I’m more offended by the writing and the lazy attempt to prop up the writers room’s “faith” than I am offended by the content.
I think if it ended with Bode realizing he’s not a Christian, but just likes engaging with different spiritual beliefs and opened a school for people like him, that would’ve done a lot more to redeem it. As it stands, nothing works.
