Why Character Doesn’t Matter Anymore
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:54 pm
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/20 ... acter.htmlNed Flanders is not, and never was, the Christian ideal. Personal piety and upstanding morality are not enough. But we should ask the question—if The Simpsons were written today and wished to make fun of evangelical Christians, would the caricature be someone inordinately devoted to his family, to prayer, to churchgoing, to kindness to his neighbors, to the awkward purity of his speech? Or would Ned Flanders be a screaming partisan, a violent insurrectionist, a woman-ogling misogynist, or an abusive pervert?
Would that change be because the secular world has grown more hostile to Christians? Perhaps. Or would it be because, when the secular world looks at the public face of Christianity, they wouldn’t dream to think now of Ned Flanders but only of one more leering face at the strip club?
You can read the whole article at the link if you want. Russell Moore, the author of the article and editor of CT, is one of people I was referencing in this post: viewtopic.php?t=41818&start=10
However, I kinda just was wondering about y’all’s answers to those questions in the quoted portion.