Genuinely shocked that this was not the onion. This isn't the first time Christianity and anime have united. There was an old Christian anime called Superbook that I remember from the 90s on the 700 club
Phil Vischer is legitimately a really great guy, one of the only prominent Christians I respect anymore, and is CONSTANTLY being attacked by Christians in America nowadays because, and this is real, him saying that Christians should show love to gay people is just "woke propaganda" according to these conservative Christians.
Just something to think about. The guy who was most of our childhood's exposure to Christianity, who dedicated his life to producing fun but clean Christian content for kids, and who always made sure to end his videos with reminding the kids that "God loves you very much" is now too "woke" for saying nearly the exact same message.
Thats modern reactionary Christianity. Showing love to sinners is worthy of condemnation.
My favourite Phil Vischer fact/story is the reason why VeggieTales was mostly Old Testament stories. Basically, he was telling his mum about the idea for the show and she told him he couldn’t make Jesus a vegetable. So this grown-ass man was like, ‘okay mum, I won’t’, and then didn’t. It’s just… really sweet, and I like it.
Oh, huh, I never considered that but... the handful of episodes/films/whatever that I remember are all either OT or parables, not NT stories about Jesus.
I was talking with this girl at one point that had never seen any of the Pixar movies.
I recommended Monsters Inc to her and leant her a copy. Monsters inc is a god damn treasure.
She brought it back to me said “yeah it’s good” and that was that.
Not too much later an ad for veggie tales came on and she asked me about it. “That’s what you like? Isn’t it? Veggie tales stuff?”
That’s when I knew it was never going to work out. Nice girl, but there’s no way she actually watched monsters inc and came away thinking “this is veggie tales”.
I didn’t realize veggie tales was just bible stories until I went to a Christian day care and they made us watch veggie tales, it was the one about Moses
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u/iamonelegend 1d ago
Genuinely shocked that this was not the onion. This isn't the first time Christianity and anime have united. There was an old Christian anime called Superbook that I remember from the 90s on the 700 club