“Lost” Treats Christianity With Respect
I watched Lost last night and was moved by its writers’ sensitivity to the subject of a Nigerian drug runner, his Catholic priest brother, terrible circumstances and horrible decisions for children to have to make, and a reverence for the reciting of scripture that hasn’t been seen on the tube since the last airing of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Doug TenNapel comes back to his blog to weigh in on this, too.
TV gets Christianity so wrong so often that you have to give them credit when they get it right. Last night’s episode of ABC’s Lost (titled The 23rd Psalm) got it right.
The episode’s lead character Eko is this Nigerian drug runner who has a religious decision to make. Catholicism is treated with respect, historical dignity and potency. Notice how America didn’t freak out and turn the channel. Notice how you don’t have to mention child-molesting priests and grease-haired fakes. Nobody in the TV audience melted, planet Earth didn’t blow up. Your liberal friends will still have lunch with you.
Makes NBC execs look like a bunch of heathens! (db)
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