The Gospel according to The Simpsons, Bigger and Possibly Even Better! Edition: With a New Afterword Exploring South Park, Family Guy, & Other Animated TV ShowsWestminster John Knox Press, 24/05/2007 - 317 páginas Is there anything holy in Springfield, the home to irascible Bart Simpson and his naive dad Homer, their enthusiastic evangelical neighbor Ned Flanders, the sourpuss minister Rev. Lovejoy, and the dozens of other unique characters who inhabit the phenomenally popular TV show? In this revision of the 2001 bestseller, author Mark Pinsky says yes! In this entertaining and enlightening book, Pinsky shows how The Simpsons engages issues of religion and morality in a thoughtful, provocative, and genuinely respectful way. With three new chapters and updates to reflect the 2001-2006 seasons, Pinsky has given a thorough facelift to the book that Publishers Weekly called "thoughtful and genuinely entertaining." The new material includes chapters on Buddhism and gay marriage and an extensive afterword that explores how religion is treated on the animated shows that have followed in the footsteps of The Simpsons: South Park, Family Guy, Futurama, American Dad, and King of the Hill. |
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... feel this incredible surge of power,” Homer says in one episode, “like God must feel when he's holding a gun.” In another, after shaking up Springfield with revelations on his personal Web site, he believes he has changed the world ...
... feel “jealous of Brother Homer,” and Ned answers, “Just a tad.” Ned gets away with a borderline fib when he tells the boys that the blood of a mangled cartoon character is really jam. Ned acknowledges that he has a temper, and his own ...
... feel?” Put another way, the curious boy is asking, “What is the spiritual impact of this practice?” At first, the effect seems to be transcendent. Homer, visibly aglow, replies, “Oh, Bartholomew. I feel like Saint Augustine of Hippo ...
... feel a great sadness in my bosom.” Bart and Homer totally miss the message and guffaw over the word “bosom.” There are times when Flanders's response to Simpson appeals for Christian charity is, at best, qualified. Homer and Bart ...
... feel a little like Job. Rather than sympathizing, Lovejoy suggests that Flanders is being melodramatic. The minister dissembles when Ned asks directly if God is punishing him, referring him to a book by Art Linkletter—hardly a source of ...
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040 Pinsky Ch10 171226_ | 171 |
050 Pinsky Afterword 227297_ | 227 |
060 Pinsky BMT 298308_ | 298 |
070 Pinsky Index 309318_ | 309 |
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