Veggie Tales sells out?
It looks as though the creators of Veggie Tales might have sold out in order to get their product onto NBC. Either that, or NBC tried to put one over on the creators/producers of VT. How so? NBC has requested the excision of any direct references to God from episodes of VT.
It’s quite sad, really.
I’ve always kind of liked Veggie Tales. I’ve never been under any illusion as to them being anything other than theological fluff, even as VT was being hailed by so many in the American Evangelical camp as being such a powerful “ministry”. Nope, they were a bit too heavy on the Law, and way, WAY too light on the Gospel for me. Even so, VT was still better than much of what was out there for entertaining my red-headed progeny.
I was saddened back when the producers of VT seemed to become way too enamored of their new-found station & influence — it’s never pretty when good folks begin to believe their press clippings. Frankly, they overreached, and tried to branch out way beyond their niche. They (Big Ideas Productions) went bankrupt. But they’re still putting out some pretty darned entertaining stuff. Not perfect, theologically speaking, but still pretty darned entertaining, IMO.
You can check out some more info on this over at (VT co-creator) Phil Vischer’s blog, in this post and this post.
It brings to mind for me the admonition against being unequally yoked with unbelievers…
-ghp
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They had 1 episode that referenced Jesus to my knowledge… While entertaining, it was nothing more than Nihilist Moralism with the facade of tell “Bible Stories.” Frankly, I don’t see much being lost with any cuts.