The hidden evil in Thomas the Tank Engine

Charting Course ^ | 7/24/2014 | Steve Berman

[MrB]

Is Tracy this neurotic, or did she just not have something better to write about this week - say, some REAL problem?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Ms. Van Slyke has given Thomas the Tank millions of dollars of free publicity.

Unintended consequences are a biotch.

[Texas Eagle]

Thomas the Tank Engine was created by Wilbert Awdry, a.k.a. The Rev. W. Awdry, an Anglican minister...

I'm glad I read the whole story (for a change) instead of just the headline.

I was going to say, "So, what's her beef? Is Thomas a Christian?"

Darned if that isn't the case.

[MrB]

The word “microaggression” needs to be treated like the punchline to a joke.

In fact, let’s make up some absurd jokes where the punchline IS “microaggression”.

(Then again, maybe we shouldn’t. We know that when we make up jokes about absurd liberal ideas, they tend to come true eventually.)

[MrB]

Thomas must be exhibiting the scent of Christ from scripture (2 Cor 2:14-16).

That’s what Van Slyke is responding to.

[skinkinthegrass]

Is Tracy this neurotic, or did she just not have something better
to write about this week - say, some REAL problem?Nah..just a Written RANT of a Moronic Liberal Womyn...
but, I repeat (three-peat :) myself..(Moronic Liberal Womyn)

[MrB]

I think Texas Eagle found the root of the problem.

Thomas is exhibiting Christian morals, and that’s like a dead skunk to a God-hating leftist.

[Texas Eagle]

Thanks for the reference. This will serve as my devotional for the day.

14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him.

15 For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.

16 To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task?

[Vaquero]

Thomas the Tank Engine was created by Wilbert Awdry, a.k.a. The Rev. W. Awdry, an Anglican minister...
I'm glad I read the whole story (for a change) instead of just the headline.

I was going to say, “So, what's her beef? Is Thomas a Christian?”

maybe Thomas will become one of those new fangled Gay Female Anglican Vicar-locomotives.....after getting his steam piston connecting rod bobbed....

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Maybe its time to update Thomas for modern times and make him more PC. He certainly would need a government subsidy to keep running. But that subsidy would be used to pay to have an extra 5 or 10 employees on the train and not to repair him so we should have some rusted out old train manned by about 10 employees, who outnumber the passengers.

This Topem Hatt needs to be replaced by some useless son of a politician as a member of the board of the company that owns Thomas.

[Alex Murphy]

Ms. Tracy Van Slyke has uncovered such a dastardly attack upon our vulnerable youth, it’s shocking that nobody else before her noticed this malign cancer hiding in plain sight. She has exposed Thomas the Tank Engine as a pernicious evil, causing so much “classism, sexism, anti-environmentalism bordering on racism” in its “hidden lessons.”

A "hidden lesson" that manifests itself if you play the videos backwards.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: Take away sentence,
“But we would never want to confuse religion and God with authority and responsibility.” ::

[MrB]

Yeah, but how would you make a train appear gay?

[skinkinthegrass]

Thomas is exhibiting Christian morals, and
that’s like a dead skunk to a God-hating leftist.pretty much..and the truth shall, set you free!...

from the USACP (from the 1963 CR):
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

[MrB]

There is no legitimate authority outside that that comes from God.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

probably have to do with how the coupling system. Or just make Richard Simmons the engineer; he’s got gay to spare.

[dangerdoc]

I knew it! That Thomas was always a little too eager if you know what I mean.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Emily's got a some great wheels:

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: There is no legitimate authority outside that that comes from God. ::

Cuz, He said so by His Son (”Logos”).

I believe! Help thou my unbelief!
- Martin Luther