Sunday, March 2, 2008

Jesus redeems Simpsons??

I am so not proud as a mother to say this but my daughter loves the Simpsons. Brad is a fan and watches the occasional show in the evenings. It is usually after the kids have bathed and they are winding down for bed. I always thought they weren't really even paying attention. Recently if Laila sees a commercial she asks to watch it..grrrreat. (note the sarcasm) I personally don't think she should be watching it at all but Brad does change the channel or turn it off if there is violence or anything else "indecent" is on. Some might say the entire show is unsuitable for her and I am not going to disagree. You never know what she could be picking up from it but mostly I think she sees it as being just another cartoon.  My point of the post was that in letting Laila watch most of one show the other night we had a great discussion come out of it. I wasn't really paying attention to the show but at the end God showed up for some reason and Laila said mommy it's Jesus. She continued to say that he loved her and that he loved me and daddy and bubbs(Landon). We continued talking about Jesus for awhile that night and she wanted me to show her pictures of him in her books. It may be unfortunate that this convo had to stem from Simpsons but I was no less proud that night because of where her questions originally came from. If I were to go back and watch the episode it is highly possible they were mocking God in some way so I think we will not be letting her watch it anymore. It is my job as her mother to teach her so don't worry I won't be relying on tv. 

1 comment:

.justin said...

the gospel according to the simpsons is a fantastic book by mark pinsky. i think i have it in my office if you would like to borrow it.

that's awesome that conversation about jesus came out of it. i'm all for the redemption of culture and allowing it to create dialog and conversation to see where we can point to jesus on a regular basis. we see paul doing this in acts 17.

that doesn't mean i don't think we should "filter" what we put in front of our kid's eyes and ears, but when we do have the opportunity, we should DEFINITELY take it!

good work.


[you can borrow the book if you want to take a look at it.]