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The television network NBC recently decided to add Veggie Tales to their Saturday morning cartoon lineup. At first this sounded like a good thing. As a father of four little children, I have viewed most of the Veggie Tale videos. They incorporate the Bible, Jesus, and morals into their stories. Airing this on nationwide television will be great.

WRONG. NBC, since signing the deal, has opted to remove references to God and especially Bible verses. These have been deemed offensive.

In a related story, NBC has also decided to air a two-hour concert of Madonna. In it she is placed on a mirrored cross, wearing a fake crown of thorns and sings while “crucified”. Madonna was raised Roman Catholic, and she has since converted to Kabbalistic Judaism. She has a long history of sacrilege in her “music”. This current instance of mocking of Jesus has not been found “religious” or “offensive” by NBC.

Some religious and family groups are protesting these decisions by NBC.

Mainstream media is actively working against Christian Americans. They are working to destroy you and your children. Entertainment has become the great American pastime. Watching TV is one of the only activities families do together. How long will we minimize our faith for the sake of entertainment?

Wake up. There is a war going on. It is a spiritual war being waged against the Word of God. That is why they hate the Bible and the Lord Jesus Christ.

If you were looking for a reason to turn off your TV, I have given you two.

What is wrong with a group people who think it is ok for a singer to be crucified on TV but it is wrong for a cucumber to say “God”?

News articles:

NBC edits ‘Veggie Tales’

Madonna’s Crucifixion Circus Act

What do you think is more offensive?

Veggie Tales

Madonna In Her New Concert Tour

I have been the webmaster of the United Christian Church website for about a year. It is the site of the local church that I pastor, plus, it is the site of the United Christian Church and Ministerial Association. UCCMA is a Christian Pentecostal fellowship that has 20,000 licensed and ordained ministers. According to our 1and1 stats, we received 11,776 unique visits in August 2006. I saw this as great potential to leave the static website approach of frontpage and instead build an online community using the open-source (free) drupal content management system.

The new site should go live in the next week. This is the second site that I have built using Drupal.

After the installation of Drupal and all the various modules needed to meet our specific needs, uploading content is easy. It also gives me the ability to enable users to post directly to the site. Making it very easy for out users to get new articles uploaded. (With frontpage, I would have articles emailed to have posted on the site. That gets old fast.)

The capabilities of Drupal seem endless.

I am sure I will post more about Drupal as I go.

Texe Marrs, “The Blind and the Dead”

I am a Pentecostal preacher. I regularly preach on the United Christian Telecast which is shown on various areas around the Southeast. But it is easy to see the error of much of what is called “televangelism”. After watching this I did not know if I should laugh or to cry.

There is a true Holy Ghost Baptism but everything on TV is not good example.