Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
Lordy!
The SJW's are reaching, now.
I will say this:
I've always appreciated the underdog aspect of the bible's description of Lucifer's struggle with God. The original "Bedazzled" explained it very well, I thought. Also the logical/ethical aspect. In that story, there is no objective good or evil. Good is defined in the story as agreeing with God, and evil as disagreeing with God. As literature, that is a flaw in a modified Man vs. Man story.
I don't mind it too much. Hopefully, religiuos parents would be aware of the content before letting children watch it. Prime should put a warning to the effect of "this show may present material that denigrates some viewers' deeply held beliefs." But if you want to sheild your kids these days, the television should be tossed, along with all electronics.
I hate to interject politics (ok, no I don't), but:
In presenting one side as the arbiter of good, the God and loyal angels of the story are similar to our own Democratic Party. They, too, define an evil person (hateful, bigot, racist, _____phobic, and all their other code words for "evil") as a person who disagrees - even slightly - with the current DNC orthodoxy.
It must be hard to be "good" in that system because the orthodoxy changes so frequently and so quickly.
The SJW's are reaching, now.
I will say this:
I've always appreciated the underdog aspect of the bible's description of Lucifer's struggle with God. The original "Bedazzled" explained it very well, I thought. Also the logical/ethical aspect. In that story, there is no objective good or evil. Good is defined in the story as agreeing with God, and evil as disagreeing with God. As literature, that is a flaw in a modified Man vs. Man story.
I don't mind it too much. Hopefully, religiuos parents would be aware of the content before letting children watch it. Prime should put a warning to the effect of "this show may present material that denigrates some viewers' deeply held beliefs." But if you want to sheild your kids these days, the television should be tossed, along with all electronics.
I hate to interject politics (ok, no I don't), but:
In presenting one side as the arbiter of good, the God and loyal angels of the story are similar to our own Democratic Party. They, too, define an evil person (hateful, bigot, racist, _____phobic, and all their other code words for "evil") as a person who disagrees - even slightly - with the current DNC orthodoxy.
It must be hard to be "good" in that system because the orthodoxy changes so frequently and so quickly.