I personally am not an avid Family Guy viewer, but with the grossing of the show and the reputation it has, I am more than aware of the edgy jokes McFarlane likes to play around with. McFarlane is openly anti- religious, which gives him much of his material that he feels so comfortable writing with. But as much as he chooses to pick his material, does Wolf have an important point that the Christian community is watching from the sidelines with nothing to say?
Friday, December 16, 2016
The Silent Christian
Leon Wolf, a writer for The Blaze, quite recently wrote an article regarding the well renowned Seth McFarlane and his show "Family Guy", saying what a cowardice it makes he and the rest of Hollywood to casually mock Christians. At the same time, being that the show holds a name for its crude humor, is being argued that other religions or risqué topics are always tip-toed around while the Christian humor is being trampled on constantly. I can admit that this is not a new subject, however, despite this has been going on in the Hollywood business, what have we as Christians done about it?
I personally am not an avid Family Guy viewer, but with the grossing of the show and the reputation it has, I am more than aware of the edgy jokes McFarlane likes to play around with. McFarlane is openly anti- religious, which gives him much of his material that he feels so comfortable writing with. But as much as he chooses to pick his material, does Wolf have an important point that the Christian community is watching from the sidelines with nothing to say?
I'll give wolf this: Leon Wolf chose to write his article on a stance to bash McFarlane and Hollywood for being relentless on us Christians, and to also defend it. However, reading this article makes something not sit with me right. What have we done in the church to turn it into a global joke and target, but more importantly, why have we chose to do nothing about it? In James 1:22 it reads, "But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves."
I personally am not an avid Family Guy viewer, but with the grossing of the show and the reputation it has, I am more than aware of the edgy jokes McFarlane likes to play around with. McFarlane is openly anti- religious, which gives him much of his material that he feels so comfortable writing with. But as much as he chooses to pick his material, does Wolf have an important point that the Christian community is watching from the sidelines with nothing to say?
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