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Girl Meets World (2014)
Good Show...Until It Wasn't
My daughter loves this show. She's rewatched it time and again, and I've been a fan, because I love the life lessons and perspective. Unfortunately, I've been unnerved twice now, and I'm done. I expected more from a modern show and the Disney Channel.
In the episode Girl Meets Belief, we see Maya being set up as the non-believer who has no morals and takes money that's not hers. Then the show's makers make her give in to PRAYING by the end of the episode. This completely missed the mark. I'm all for religious freedom. As an atheist, I would never want forced atheism. People should be left alone to believe what they want. However, let me give the producers some facts:
Less than 1% of the prison population is atheist. Meaning, we aren't the ones committing crimes. We KNOW there's no one to forgive us our sins and we have to live with what we make of the world. We KNOW that what we put out there, we get back. When we do bad, we feel bad. When we do good, we feel good. It's called a conscience, not God. Maya stealing money because "no one" is watching to take note of her bad behavior is completely unrealistic.
And to say that Atheists don't believe in anything is also far off the mark. We don't believe in God. That's it. There have been about 1,500 gods throughout history, and you don't believe in 1,499 of them. You're almost as atheist as me. We believe in a lot.
On the surface, this episode looks like it's trying to promote acceptance of differences, but it sets Farkle and Maya up as the belligerent ones who need to be educated. Not once, do Riley and Lucas have to be schooled (because they're believers, I guess?).
Keep on making your show. If you had given a more equal representation of agnostics and atheists, I would continue watching. But this was insulting. Especially to an eight year old child who's being raised by freethinkers and wants to see representation of our way of life, too, not some one-sided nonsense that is set to make non-believers morally inferior.
Girl Meets World: Girl Meets Belief (2015)
A Good Show...Until It Wasn't
My daughter loves this show. She's rewatched it time and again, and I've been a fan, because I love the life lessons and perspective. Unfortunately, I've been unnerved twice now, and I'm done. I expected more from a modern show and the Disney Channel.
Setting Maya up as the non-believer who has no morals and takes money that's not hers and then to make her give in to PRAYING by the end of the episode completely missed the mark. I'm all for religious freedom. As an atheist, I would never want forced atheism. People should be left alone to believe what they want. However, let me give the producers some facts:
Less than 1% of the prison population is atheist. Meaning, we aren't the ones committing crimes. We KNOW there's no one to forgive us our sins and we have to live with what we make of the world. We KNOW that what we put out there, we get back. When we do bad, we feel bad. When we do good, we feel good. It's called a conscience, not God. Maya stealing money because "no one" is watching to take note of her bad behavior is completely unrealistic.
And to say that Atheists don't believe in anything is also far off the mark. We don't believe in God. That's it. There have been about 1,500 gods throughout history, and you don't believe in 1,499 of them. You're almost as atheist as me. We believe in a lot.
On the surface, this episode looks like it's trying to promote acceptance of differences, but it sets Farkle and Maya up as the belligerent ones who need to be educated. Not once, do Riley and Lucas have to be schooled (because they're believers, I guess?).
Keep on making your show. If you had gave a more equal representation of agnostics and atheists, I would continue watching. But this was insulting. Especially to an eight year old child who's being raised by freethinkers and wants to see representation of our way of life, not some one-sided nonsense that is set to make non-believers inferior.
Waco (2018)
Stellar performances but irresponsible representation of actual events...
No one will ever know what really happened as those inside the compound are now dead, but I was shocked at the irresponsible story-telling, especially when we have a large population that considers a mini-series a worthy source of fact and take it as such.
1. Why was Kiri Jewell's testimony left out of this story? And the stories of others who were abused at Koresh's hands? She was molested at 10 years old by Koresh.
2. David Koresh took child brides. And no, not the 14 year old kind that Texas says are legal. I'm talking 11 years old. This was also left out.
3. He also, by the testimony of Branch Davidians, instructed children on how to commit suicide if they needed to. This was also let out.
4. The medical examiner's report stated that no one died from the gas. It was the fire. This mini series would have us believe the fire started from the gas at the fault of the FBI. They all but say it in the movie. So three simultaneous fires started in different ares of the compound due to the gas? All at the same time?
Right. Let's also remember that the clothes on the bodies had traces of lighter fluid. This was also left out.
I give three stars for a compelling work of FICTION and great performances by some of my favorite actors. But...as I got to episode four, it started to become clear this was painting Koresh to be a martyr and the government as evil. When black people get shot, white Americans say "well, if they'd just followed police orders, they would've been fine." David Koresh had two months to follow police orders, but he didn't, leading himself and his followers to their death out of selfishness and pride. He was never going to come out. This was always how it was going to end for him and his followers. He was crazy, and if the fact that he brainwashed men to let him sleep with their wives isn't enough to convince people that he was dangerous, then congrats to the filmmakers for successfully preying on so many dumb viewers. I'll make sure to skip their next mini series production, though.