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Is Jesus a dirty word?

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While I think that Veggie Tales is cute, I didn’t like them for the main reason they never mention the name of Jesus Christ. Never! I even got a “worship” Veggie Tales CD from the library with “Veggie-Talized” popular worship song. Jesus was removed from those songs too! Could this be why Phil Vischer went bankrupt? He keeps saying because “making the show popular” became his idol, and all the evangelicals nodded in agreement.

I think it’s because he robbed Jesus Christ of His majesty, and made him simply a politically correct generic God that any child from Israel to Saudi Arabia can enjoy without their parents worrying.

While I got copies at my public library (that alone should tell you how “harmless” it is), Paws and Tails, which was generously given to me for review by Tyndale Publishing, most definitely will NOT be in my public library, or unfortunately made freely available to the children of Mecca or Beijing.

When I found out Tyndale was offering this for review, I snatched it up because my children are pining for godly entertainment on TV. I called my 3 1/2 yr old daughter into the living room as I started the first episode. First thing she saw was a man in a suit. Did you ever hear that sound on a TV show or a movie that sounds like a phonograph needs being scratched across a record, and everything just halting?

Well, that did it for my daughter. My daughter saw the man in the suit and said “I don’t want to watch this, Daddy”. So I skipped that part and went right to the main event which she loved but it was really for older kids than her. Probably more like 5 and up. She paid attention for a little while than started playing with her dolls. So I watched the rest of the episode and the next episode. I thought they were both well written and cute.

My biggest problem was the man in the suit. Chuck Swindoll is probably a very nice man, but I think standing there in a suit is not what children want to see. I have episodes of Mr. Rogers that I put on DVD before PBS took him off the air and now refuses to sell the episodes. My daughter will listen to just about anything Mr. Rogers has to say. She also pays attention to the host on Blue’s Clues and the two nice fellows on The Upside Down Show but she will not listen or pay attention to the man on those DVDs.

The only thing I would change is the host on the cartoons. Make him more kid friendly. My daughter knows about Jesus because she hears all about Him all the time from us, her mommy and daddy. And that’s who she prays to. Anytime she hears Jesus mentioned, she pays attention. But the host of Paws and Tales could have said Jesus while jumping up and down and swinging from a flying trapeze, and my daughter would have zoned out.

I hope they make more because the state of children’s shows is absolutely abysmal.

3 out of 5 stars