Giving Credit Where Credit is Due
NBC evidently heard enough from it’s viewers to understand that the upcoming episode of Will and Grace scheduled to be aired on Good Friday was an affront to people all over the country and has now announced it’s plans to drop the “Cruci-fixins” plot line.
Am I relieved that the death of our Lord and Savior will not be mocked and belittled on Good Friday (or any time for that matter)? Of course! Do I see this as some sort of repentance and turning away from the Christian bashing that NBC has been engaging in? Not really. The foul stench of “The Book of Daniel” is still all too acrid in my nostrils.
In fact, NBC has continued to be defiant and dishonest when it responds to genuine Christian outrage at having our faith and our Lord mocked.
When NBC released their statement to address the Will and Grace issue, they referred to some "erroneous information" that was "mistakenly included in a press release describing an upcoming episode ... which, in fact, has yet to be written." The offensive reference to "Cruci-fixins" will not be in the show, the network went on to state, "and the story line will not contain a Christian characterization at all."
Unfortunately, as AFA (The American Family Association) has pointed out, the memo did not clarify that it was NBC itself that had issued the "erroneous information”. My first reading of the information was not through any Christian group but on the FOX news website in an Associated Press piece.
Oh for some Christian writers in Hollywood who would refuse to mock the faith of others and who would write with the talent that is required to provide good, funny, uplifting entertainment. And folks, it does require much, much, more talent to entertain without taking cheap shots, tearing others down, using every four letter word known to man as adjectives or going for the cheap laugh and thrill by using blatant sexual references. I am affronted by NBC’s recent programming first because it mocks my faith and second because it is simply poor and unimaginative writing. I guess the world just isn’t that interested in talent anymore!
“First, I want to remind you that in the last days there will be scoffers who will laugh at the truth and do every evil thing they desire. This will be their argument: "Jesus promised to come back, did he? Then where is he? Why, as far back as anyone can remember, everything has remained exactly the same since the world was first created."
2 Peter 3:3-4 (NLT)
