We turned off the television. The show we tried to watch looked interesting, and advertised intertwining church and British history. Instead it highlighted the illicit intertwining of human bodies, centering on incest, rape, and premarital sex. The respite from these scenes included torture, murder, plots for murder, dismemberment, brutality, self-flagellation, the exposing of infants and the execution of fathers. Politicians were rife with evil, churchmen bartered with the name of God, and peasants were as selfish as they were stupid.
The fact that this is “entertainment” gives me extra reason to despair for the human condition.
Why couldn’t the show have one good character? Someone who refused political plots and resisted depravity? I had no one to admire in the show, and thus felt lost. Where were all the good people?
There is a Chinese proverb intended to depress single women: “There are two good men: one dead, the other unborn.” Neither were in my television show.
In church, our pastor preached on John 3, where Nicodemus went to Jesus at night. Why were people so attracted to Jesus that they followed him en masse and sneaked around gardens to find him? Why does he fascinate us now? It is because he fulfilled the Chinese proverb, as well as the Hebrew prophesies. He was the perfect man who died (for others), he is yet to come again to earth, and, one-upping the proverb, he still is alive.
In Jesus we find a rebel against sin, a vice-less hero, a good king, a prophet, a savior, a doctor, a priest, a humble man in a sea of the selfish. He should be in every story.
P.S. I thought this was appropriate: Holding Out for a Hero
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