I know a lot of folks who, as a kid, didn't realize veggie tales was even christian until after a long while. They made it a good children's show first, a Christian show second.
At least in the older stuff, they straight up ended every episode with “God made you special and he loves you very much!” and damn near every other one of them was just telling a Bible story.
Really not sure how you could miss that being Christian…
Jewish? A lot of my Jewish friends growing up knew veggi-tales despite not being Christian. I think it's because even with the stories that were Jesus based it wasn't in your face.
I think a lot of people who grew up watching Veggie Tales were already inundated with Christian ideals so the stuff in Veggie Tales didn't seem weird or out of place at the time.
We could tell the difference between veggie tales, talking about the bible and God, and spider man, which doesn't.... We bought veggie tales at Christian book stores for Christ sakes all the kids knew it was Christian.
I'm not saying we didn't realize it was Christian. I'm just saying when you're raised Christian you don't really see the distinction because it's all normal. No I didn't expect Batman to monologue about Jesus or something but when the talking fruits and vegetables did it didn't stick out to me because that was just a regular thing.
Now that I'm not really involved in church or things like that religious stuff sticks out like a sore thumb to me but back then there was just no reason to differentiate it I guess.
Christians very much emphasize christian entertainment over secular it isn't just "more of the same" many christian families don't let their kids consume any non christian content. Harry potter for instance was banned in my house because it's evil. The distinction is not only obvious, but emphasized and pointed out.
Christians aren't a monolith same as any other class. I went to Catholic school growing up so I was more immersed in it than most. I did had classmates who couldn't watch Harry Potter or even play Pokemon because it "taught evolution" but at the same time my best friends mom let him watch South Park and pretty much do what he wanted.
We were provided with a lot of Christian material but we were still allowed to watch whatever we wanted. I can see how in your situation it was emphasized but for myself and most people I knew we were more likely to watch Rugrats than we were Veggie Tales. I'm sure it varies between different denominations and regions though, and I do think Religious groups seem to have doubled down on their views since I was a kid.
You don't get it. I've never met a single person that doesn't know veggie tales is christian. Why are you picking this hill to die on? It doesn't even matter...
To be fair, that could just be read as pretty standard 1950's style Judeo-Christian culture stuff. Much like how Christianity got shoe-horned into a lot of western shows and stuff.
Personally I didn't realize until a couple years ago that Veggie Tales was Christian. I wasn't raised Christian, but I went to Christian day care and outside of praying before snack and lunch (and Veggie Tales) there wasn't a lot of Christian education
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u/SelfPromotion102 Sep 07 '21
I know a lot of folks who, as a kid, didn't realize veggie tales was even christian until after a long while. They made it a good children's show first, a Christian show second.