NBC Could Mock More Than Episcopalians
The NBC TV program ‘The Book of Daniel’ is a comedy about Episcopalians.
The writer, Jack Kenny, is a practicing homosexual who describes himself as
being "in Catholic recovery." He is interested in Buddhist teachings about
reincarnation. He says this about Jesus as Lord, "I don't necessarily know
that all the myth surrounding him (Jesus) is true."
The main character is an Episcopalian priest who is addicted to pain
pills. There is the usual mix of alcoholism, drug dealing, homosexuality,
embezzlement, adultery, promiscuous sex, and organized crime we all
associate with Episcopalian churches. And, of course, the Savior of the
World and God-in-man, Jesus, is just a wimpy guy riding shotgun and giving
insipid advice. Pretty funny show, huh?
I wonder if NBC meant to mock Christianity and Christians? If so, they
couldn’t be so clueless as to choose the Episcopalians as their vehicle. The
Episcopalian church is splitting into its apostate, Sissy Christian majority
and Bible-believing, stalwart minority over worshipping homosexuality. Soon
there will be more Moslems in America than the ever-diminishing
Episcopalians. Besides, there are much better alternatives to mix satirical
comedy and religion. What could ever prevent NBC from having laugh riots
with other religions? Consider the possibilities NBC rejected.
Messing With Mohammed. The imam at a Wahabbi mosque in Northern
Virginia wonders how to best fight jihad in America. The valedictorian of
his son’s Muslim high school is convicted of planning terrorist acts, so who
will be his son’s roommate next year at infidel college? His oldest daughter
wants to be the first suicide bomber in America but can’t decide whether to
go with a colorful hijab for the Metro surveillance cameras or the full
bodied burka now that she has gained weight. His five other kids are giving
him a hard time about female circumcision and refuse to promise to do an
honor killing of any sister who has sex or is raped. His wife keeps nagging
him to get Sharia as law in the U.S. so he can get 3 more wives to help with
the housework. Meanwhile, the Prophet Mohammed keeps showing up and bugging
him to go on line to pick out the next 7 year old girl to marry like his
last wife. Mohammed gives him dumb advice like, “Do what I did to the Jewish
Qurayza tribe in 627 AD and cut their heads off. All of them. It’s simple.”
Happy Hindu Days. The priest at a temple outside San Francisco has an
elephant god statue that keeps leaking milk. The crushing crowds have ruined
the new carpet with spilt milk. Grandpa is insisting that the priest take
him and Grandma back to India before he dies of cancer. The rub is that
Grandpa insists that Grandma commit suttee and jump on his funeral pyre. The
imperialist, Christian Brits outlawed suttee, forcing their values down
Hindu throats. Time to make it right for multiculturalism. His wife is upset
that the local 7-11 manager keeps commenting that her caste spot is way cool
gothic make up. But, the big crisis is that their next door neighbors are
untouchable Dalits. The priest’s family is Brahmin. The Dalit dad won the
lottery and now has the audacity to live in the same gated community. The
priest is torn between hoping the 100 million Dalits convert to
Christianity, as they are considering, so they won’t make his neighborhood
unclean and worrying about who will replace them on the permanent bottom
rung of society based on birth.
Buddhist Friends. A monk in Colorado is desperate because his
monastery is being overrun by particularly stupid, wannabe converts. The
Hollywood actors compete with the formerly Jewish New Yorkers over
everything. But, they bring so much money to the monastery, what is he to
do? These simpletons wallowing in their spirituality, not religion, give the
kind of cash that makes the Buddhist nuns, who were sworn to poverty,
donations to Al Gore look like chump change. Back in Communist China his
parents had an illegal second child, his brother, who can’t find a wife now
that so many girl babies were killed at birth. The monk is wondering how
much it will cost to smuggle his brother and parents in the U.S. But, he is
worried how it will look since the whole village has converted to
Evangelical Christianity in an underground church.
Human Secular Sex in the Suburbs. A co-habitating couple who worship
the God with a small ‘g’ called ‘Self’ leave the city and move to generic
suburb. They live vapid, empty lives trying to fill the God-sized hole in
the human heart with materialism, promiscuous sex without marriage,
self-medication, and liberal political correctness. Wait, that’s already on.
It’s most TV.
Real Christian Wingnuts. A reality show about Assembly of God,
Southern Baptist and Roman Catholic families that live next to each other
outside Atlanta. They pray for one another. The Baptist and Catholic fathers
get back from relief work after Hurricane Katrina to find the Pentecostal
father’s church brothers have built a wheelchair ramp for the Catholic
family’s invalid grandmother. All the parents are collecting names for
petitions to the school board to stop the cultural cleansing of Christmas.
The kids play sports together and go to each others’ youth groups if there
is a really fun event. The Catholic parents are considering joining the home
Bible study the Baptists have on Thursday. The Pentecostals already go to
their own.
Wouldn’t these alternatives make better entertainment? NBC couldn’t
possibly have an agenda to just mock Episcopalians. Or Christians. Could
they?
James Atticus Bowden
