VeggieTales Creators File for Bankruptcy

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/135/41.0.html ^

[ConservativeDude]

we are close to agreement. good post.

[AnAlternativeView]

Give me a break...these videos are targeted at very young children! While it's certainly necessary to share the Gospel (and NT) with children, I'd like to see the "most" creative person derive an interesting and engaging CHILDREN'S story from the book of Romans. By the way, you intimation that if it's NT then it's not Christian is disturbing...you can't say just part of the Bible is the final authority of God...like it or not...you have to take the whole Book!

[AnAlternativeView]

I know the founders of Veggie Tales...they are devout believers...your comments are based on a total lack of knowledge or background of these people...

[Ol' Sox]

I'm so blue-hoo-hoo blue-hoo-hoo blue-hoo-hoo-hooooo
I'm so blue I don't know what to do!

[Ol' Sox]

Dammit, woman!!

where-o where-o where-o............somebody help me!!

[dfwgator]

My favorite is Josh and the Big Wall. I especially thought it was funny that they portrayed Jericho being defended by a bunch of arrogant French peas. Methinks the VeggieTales guys pretty much think of the French as we do here on FR.

[dfwgator]

"I love my duck..."

[dfwgator]

And please note, I took pains to say that I did not outright condemn the Veggie Tales. Taken individually, they are some amusing recitations of OT Bible stories. But taken as a whole, they are a dirt poor representation of what Christianity really is.

Of course Veggie Tales should not be the only source of religious education, I don't think anyone in their right minds would advocate that. But it certainly is a way to open up kids to learning more about the Bible, than they would otherwise.

[agrace]

Oh great, thanks a lot, now it'll be stuck in my head all day.

[Lost Highway]

"When things were doing so well, I thought that was God wanting us to expand, so we grew like crazy. Now I think it was more me having all these great ideas in my head and being so excited that I wanted to do them all at once."

I am intrigued as to why one might think that just because things did not work out like I wanted them to means that must not have been what God wanted. Are there no lessons in hardship?

[Lost Highway]

We often miss or miscontrue what God says to us, but that doesn't mean he is silent.

True. There is also the option that God needed him to learn a lesson that could only happen through some hardship. Just because things don't turn out the way we think they should does not mean that is not what God wants. He sees the entire movie of our lives. We simply see a snapshot.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

NOW YOU'VE GONE AND DONE IT!!!!!!!!!

Oh where is my hair brush? Oh where, oh where, oh where...

HELP...SAVE ME!

[myprecious]

I regret to inform you - there is no known cure. It is like a cruel trojan virus. It is always lurking in the background of your mental files, just waiting to be re-activated.

[cyclotic]

I hate that hairbrush song. My kids sing it to me all day long, making fun of my lifelong state of follical challenges. They especially like the line that states "Why do you need a hairbrush? You don't have any Hair!"

Thanks.

Here's hoping that the mission of Big Idea will not be too diluted by another owner.

[EBITDA]

I completely agree. I just wish I didn't have to learn most of my lessons by going through the hardship. At least twice. And I know that if I listened better, I would avoid some of that. But certainly not all.

[myprecious]

LOL! My husband is similarly challenged and joins in singing. (He knows his wife finds his shiney top attractive!)

I share the concerns for the Great Mission. I just recommend you join in. Last week I shared the gospel with a roudy 6th grader that had only been to church 3 times in his life. Just planted the seed, but oh what a feeling!

[Heyworth]

Maybe God didn't like that there wasn't enough "beeline for the cross" and Gospel material, so He tricked the guy (or simply utilized his hubris) into destroying his own business.

[Peter Porcupine]

I am 99.9% sure that a number of these scriptures are taken from the New Testament.

In the handful of Veggie Tales tapes I'm familiar with (from watching them over and over and over and over...not that I'm complaining), QWERTY's quotes seem invariably to come from the New Testament. I figured that was kinda the formula: draw your narratives from the OT, back up your argument with the NT. Effective, I thought.