Can you even in your wildest dreams imagine Hollywood naming a show, "Good Moslem B*tches"? Or "Good Jewish B*tches"? I know Christians are often viewed as hypocrites in our culture. This is probably because we are the majority faith -- and thus more visible. But I am a little tired of the bashing of Christians -- even by our own! Take Christians out of this world, and what would it be like? Who on this planet are most concerned about taking care of the hungry? providing pure water for third-world countries? building hospitals for the sick? And by the way, this is not something that originated with the "emergent" Christians movement.
Can we do a better job? Absolutely! But the constant bashing and condescension toward our own is self-defeating.
But I digress.
What should our response be to ABC's plans? Well, I imagine what they WANT to happen is a loud public outcry. Why? Because, as Jerry Jones has said, even bad publicity is good. It will stir interest and get people to watch.
So here is my proposal. Let's ask ourselves what Jesus would do. And Scripture even provides us an answer in 1 Peter 2: 21-23. I am summarizing: ". . . follow in his steps . . . When they hurled insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly."
You might think, "But that won't work!" Really? Ask Gandhi. Or Martin Luther King, Jr. Or Nelson Mandela.
Perhaps the best way to handle this is for every Christian to simply not watch it. That alone would be enough for the show to bomb.
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Maybe it's an opportunity to rejoice in the persecution and name-calling and whatever else comes with trying to follow Christ and being ridiculed for it.
I realize one show doesn't make for a heaping of persecution but it's a starting place to see how much I want to follow Christ because I do believe that real persecution is coming sooner or later.
Due to negative response, they have changed the name to "Good Christian Belles". It will be interesting to see how Christians are depicted and whether the good will be balanced with the negative.
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