Would Jesus Watch Family Guy? (serious thread)

[JustinHesychast]

If Jesus were alive today... Do you see him at a pub, having a beer, and watching shows like Family Guy and South Park while telling people about God?

EDIT: It sounds kind of ridiculous, but this is a serious thread.

[Orthosdoxa]

I can't even bear to watch South Park. It's so hateful.

Family Guy, I hated for a long time, but I have to admit those obscure 80's pop culture references are hilarious. But there's an awful lot of blasphemy in that show. :mad:

[rusmeister]

You know, I was reading a Russian Orthodox calendar-book yesterday, and one of the short homilies in there was of St Siluan of Athon, who while visiting Russia was offered a cigarette by a merchant. St. Siluan refused the offer. The merchant went on about the positive sides of smoking and asked St. Siluan if it was a sin. St. Siluan replied, telling him to say the Lord's Prayer before smoking. The merchant said, "That doesn't seem proper." The saint replied, saying that if one cannot say the Lord's Prayer before doing something, then it probably oughtn't to be done.

[Silentchapel]

If Jesus were alive today...
Well, Jesus IS alive today, thank-you-very-much. ;)
And I doubt He'd watch it, outside of knowing everything about it, being omnipresent and all. It is funny - but man... Talk about blasphemous.

[The Virginian]

If Jesus were alive today... Do you see him at a pub, having a beer, and watching shows like Family Guy and South Park while telling people about God?

EDIT: It sounds kind of ridiculous, but this is a serious thread.

NO! I was going to use several of the fonts to emphasis the point, but several seem to be the same when capitalized.
The fact that Jesus walked the 'highways and by-ways' of his time, does not necessarily translate into going into a pub and throwing back a few. And since such places have installed an 'idiot box' for the subduing of their patrons, the possibility of watching Family Guy or South Park upon entering such an establishment is very likely. I have personally a problem with the distraction of the television (which is lessening, thankfully), the problem of which is two-fold: (a), the distraction itself, and (b), the content of the shows. "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness."
We somehow equate the fact that Jesus talked with adulterers, prostitutes, thieves, and etc., as his going into the places they frequented. Not so! People then, and people now, are attracted like moths to a flame, to that which is different, to what the 'buzz' is all about. Jesus did not go to the tax collector, the haunts of the woman at the well, a leper colony, or wherever they kept the mentally deranged, blind, halt and lame: They all cme to him, because they knew; this man has that which we all really need, that which so many talk about but do not possess, He has life.
Being light in darkness does not mean sticking my head into an open lion's mouth!

[Dorothea]

If Jesus were alive today... Do you see him at a pub, having a beer, and watching shows like Family Guy and South Park while telling people about God?

EDIT: It sounds kind of ridiculous, but this is a serious thread.

Nope. :D

[Sacrum Silentium]

No. I've had a few good laughs from the show but it's terribly blasphemous at times.

[JustinHesychast]

What of that chapter in the Gospel of Luke? I forget the chapter, but the verses are 34-35.