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To: DMaA who wrote (47753)	5/29/2004 10:44:44 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793991

I don’t think Ned is a stereotype at all. Now that awful pastor of his church……… That's interesting. I've been off reading about this most of the morning. It's amazing the variety of viewpoints. There were many who said the show was favorable to Christians, particularly the Marge character. I was reading a thread about Christian stereotyping on beliefnet that was all atwitter about how some Christians stereotype and label other Christians. Then I read one on christiananswers about the suitability of watching The Simpsons due to stereotyping. Ended up most recently over at Amazon where I was reading the reviews of Christianity for Dummies and found the intra-Christian stress fracture again. Infighting over book reviews, for heaven's sake! <<...Oh, and that other reviewer that said this book should be called "Fundamentalist Christianity for Dummies", well, it just goes to show how people can totally miss the point. If you don't believe the fundamental doctrines of the Scriptures, then you have totally missed the Truth. Yes, the Bible is without error and is totally God-inspired (even though the 50 or so authors that actually penned the pages show their writing styles and such in the text they each wrote), and yes, if you are truly a Christian (and not just a nice-guy cultural Christian) you will come to realize same....>> Yep, with co-religionists like these, who needs Hollywood to create stereotypes? Looking at Christians from the outside, as I do, I see enormous variety. As an outsider, I accept as a Christian everyone who declares himself to be a Christian, which is the vast majority of people in the US. Enormous variety doesn't lend itself to stereotype and characiture so I'd be hard pressed to come up with one. I suppose the review writer above is among those who think that not all Christians are really Christians, an attitude that invites negative stereotyping and prejudice given that those thinks derive from the need for some to distance themselves from others. As for being too nice, well, I've had people tell me I'm too nice. Somehow I managed to not feel insulted. There are worse things. <g>