[Loud Mime]

Our Earth is a battleground between good and evil. Choose your side and then count your spiritual dollars, or debt.

[Vaquero]

I have had cable tv for over 30 years and for the past 25 have done so without the ‘premium’ channels...they alienated my sensabilities way back when and I refuse to pay for them....

if I want to see a movie fresh out on DVD, I can rent it at the supermarket ‘redbox’ for a buck...

[Judith Anne]

Joshua 24:15
New International Version (NIV)

15 But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

[Oztrich Boy]

"Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself." And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto! I looked them up!" — Wanda, A Fish Called Wanda

[count-your-change]

You think of the hundreds upon hundreds of people involved in this Showtime enterprise — the actors, producers, promotional and marketing staff, the blue-suit executives in New York, the advertising agencies. And of those hundreds and hundreds, not one will stand up to defend Our Lord? How sad.”

Add to those the viewers and we can see how broad and deep the perversion of modern society runs.

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[USMCWife6869]

I don't watch Dexter or Californication, but I have to admit I love Weeds. The show doesn't really glorify the lifestyle. Everything Nancy Botwin does wrong eventually backfires on her, and she pretty much loses everything. Plus, it's a pretty funny show. I'm a grown woman who knows right from wrong, and none of these shows are for children. Maybe we should focus on the "real" people that have ruined Christianity and Catholoicism and done horrible things while hiding behind religion.

I'm not trying to start a war, so please don't be hateful towards me, but I honestly think all this energy would be better spent fixing the real world. If you don't like the show, don't watch. If enough people don't watch, the shows will go away. But think about it...is raising a stink like this really going to change anyone's mind? And it makes Christians look exactly as controlling and humorless as our worst critics say we are. Sorry, just my .02.

[GOPJ]

In a second Showtime promo, as the Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" plays, Dexter walks past religious statues, including the Virgin Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus and wonders (or teases): "Maybe it's not a need, but a calling. After all, I rid the world of evil people. If they didn't exist, neither would I. Is it possible I serve a higher purpose?"

Interesting. Before I got to this paragraph I was wondering if Leonard Cohen was involved in the ideas behind this series. Haven't seen the show, but there's enough complexity there to merit 'poet level' ...

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Making fun of Christianity and showing Jesus doing bizzare or criminal things is an easy plot device and pretty banal. Its no wonder it shows up on Showtime, which has the worst original cable programming of any premium cable network. There is not one Showtime series that is remotely interesting. They are poorly written, have insipid storylines that run out of steam quickly and average actors. Every once in a while I try to watch one and usually turn it off 10 minutes or so into the episode. Weeds and Dexter are two of the worst. Before they turned to Christian bashing plot lines, they were horribly dull. Its not wonder they are grasping at straws like this.

[tlb]

I don’t subscribe to Showtime and have never seen an episode of Dexter. But as described here Dexter is simply another vigilante anti-hero. The man who goes out to clean up our messes, and “does what he’s gotta do”.

There have been lots of comments the last few days applauding the idea of vigilantes in London. Why would we turn against one on Showtime.

As for Dexter’s atheism, isn’t that required by the plot. “Thou shalt not kill” isn’t really compatible with his occupation.

I’m grateful Brent Bozell will never control what is and isn’t allowed on television. Television is bad enough as it is, yet I really couldn’t take a hundred channels of Ozzie and Harriet.

[Jack Hammer]

Meanhile, we’re still waiting for the documentary that so much as tells the truth about the life of Mohammed, let alone mocks him.

Somehow, one feels that the gutless networks will never even attempt it.