One of the comments I have been getting in regard to my review is that I didn’t clearly state that this was a sketch about censorship and not really about Christ. That the writers were aiming at the censors who were trying to stop them from taking the Lord’s name in vain. They can’t understand why Christian values were being upheld by censors. Why should the network care about what would offend Christians? Because everyone takes the Lord’s name in vain. And they used the Jesus character to show that even Jesus doesn’t care about taking his own name in vain, so why are we censoring? And this is what offends a Christian because that isn’t true. And that is where I came in. Now, go read the review with this context. You can see that the context doesn’t really change my criticism of the show. They don’t understand Christ, so I suggest they stick to targets they do understand because comedy is funny when there is truth (like when Harriet was trying to stand up to the executive and not break ties with a Christian group she had been associated with for years, the group canceled her appearance because they thought she wasn’t going far enough, now that was funny because you know that something like that would happen — sad, but with some truth).
Poke fun at Christians all you want, I don’t care, in many respects we deserve it. But the point I made at the end of the article holds true, they need to turn around and poke themselves because they deserve it just as much as we do.
But leave Christ out of it because he doesn’t deserve it.
Now, if we discuss anything, let’s discuss their view of Christ because their view of Christians isn’t the point of this review.
And I should make myself clear on one final point, even though this show drives me crazy, it doesn’t drive me crazy because it’s a mirror. I believe the portrait they point is skewed and doesn’t reflect me at all. They drive me crazy because they think they know us but they don’t.