The Book of Daniel

Brent Bozell at Townhall.com has written a devastating article about the new NBC show, "The Book of Daniel". I could quote every line, it's that good and on-point. This is a must-read and should be a clear example of how Hollywood is completely out-of-touch with the rest of the country (which is 95% Christian).

The Book of Daniel" is a disgusting bit of anti-Christian garbage, though its author denies this. Here is Bozell:

Episcopal minister Daniel Webster is hooked on Vicodin and sees Jesus Christ regularly. His wife is an alcoholic. His son is gay. His daughter sells marijuana. His adopted Chinese son is a teenage sex machine. His female bishop, who asks him for one of his "Canadian headache pills" for the codeine, and later raids his office for more, is having an adulterous relationship with his father, who's also an Episcopal bishop, whose wife has Alzheimer's and keeps talking about penises.

Are there enough ridiculous, plastic characters in this spectacle yet? No, apparently not. Daniel's brother-in-law escapes town with the church treasury, but his wife and the church secretary have gone from a menage a trois to a saucy lesbian relationship. To find said brother-in-law, Daniel seeks out "Father Frank," an Italian Catholic priest who (no stereotypes here?) uses his Mafia contacts to hunt down the missing money, so the mob can compromise Daniel.

And when the writer for this despicable show claims he's being totally respectful of Christians, Bozell points this out:

Daniel's sermon before credits roll in the premiere begins, "Temptation. Is it really a bad thing? I don't think so." He concludes, "if temptation corners us, maybe we shouldn't beat ourselves up for giving into it. And maybe we shouldn't ask for forgiveness from a church, or God, or from Jesus, or from anyone, until we can first learn to forgive ourselves."

That's not Christianity. That's the gospel of Hollywood.

The left just gets worse and worse. I rarely watch TV any more because this is the kind of garbage that gets on. This is an incredibly blatant example, but this kind of thinking is everywhere in the mainstream media. Once you acknowledge what we're called to do as Christians (i.e. emulate Jesus), you can see this stuff everywhere.