Having read the book, Ted is off base here. It doesn’t blaspheme Christ or Christianity at all. It does however have great fun with the hypocrisy of some of his followers. To boot, I would bet that you cannot find a church of any size at all that does not have amongst its congregation women who exemplify the justifiable stereotypes found in the book.
ABC’s attempt is to put ALL Christians in a bad light, so anyone considering turning to God, will not. There is good and evil. God and satan. They are doing satans work.
“justifiable stereotypes”
“Justifiable” as in feeling one has the spiritual right to judge such people? People are complicated and the greatest battle one has are tendencies to lump folks into “worldly wisdom” defined categories. Someone wears certain clothing and jewelry and all of a sudden they are a hypocrite, one just “knows” this to be true....I’ve heard it all. Then one takes a second look at such people you describe and you discover loss or a childhood filled with want and abuse. They tend to be quite generous givers, perhaps out of guilt or conviction, though a second look often reveals a wealth of compassion.
As for so-called sexual escapades...such women may or may not have erred in such ways but sinful gossip hounds just cloud the issues and often defame such people unjustly. Some of them are Narcisstic without much self consciousness of how such is evident to those around them, yet it tends to offend those most who are themselves inclined to Narcissm. How much more narcisstic would such women be without God working in them, becomes the question for me. God has a salvation plan tailored for all of us and it sometimes brings each of us thru territories we would never have imagined.
The question becomes in the end, why such women would even still cling to the trappings of Christianity? Yet that question pertains to all of us. None of us dare say we stand lest we fall without the grace of Christ.
That’s a pathetic rationalization of an overt attack on Christianity and Christian women.
Are you trying to protect your Disney stocks?