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Here's the problem though and why so many people who grew up on Veggietales when they get older have severe whiplash.
"King George and the Rubber Ducky" does not even get CLOSE to the actual depravity of which David did when he killed Uriah and got Bathsheba pregnant. We're talking the same story that inspired the song "Amazing Grace".
But like most things that @philvischer and crew did ... they watered it down and made it a sad ghost of it's actual true real self thereby seemingly appointing themselves artistic / defacto retellers of the story for "kids" sake.
The watering down or "babying" of kids content is some of the most annoyingly evil stuff that has happened in the last 40 years when you compare that something like "The Hobbit" was intended for kids or Star Wars where Luke Skywalker sees his aunt and uncle fried before his own eyes scorched to a crisp.
Childen's work used to actually have gravitas and purpose and real heart and consequences and show and teach children about morality, not just give you this moralistic therapeutic deism for children stripped of any of its power.
And it shows in what people emphasize in the story at large as they often want to focus on David and Bathsheba today ... not the fact that idk DAVID STRAIGHT UP got a dude KILLED.
See in the Veggietales version there are 0 stakes. No body dies. Nobody actually suffers. It's even marketed as a "Lesson in Selfishness" which is hilarious considering that the actual story of David and Bathsheba was more about just the insanity of sin and lust and power and murder and how even the "best of men" (David) can succumb to these temptations and fall and that forgiveness can be found if one repents but that does not make punishment go away.
In the real story, Uriah dies. The baby David and Bathsheba dies. There is scandal and it's no surprise that later on when Amnon rapes Tammar this is seen as being in a chain connected to this event earlier on the House of David. Would Absolom have taken action to kill his brother if David had more swiftly punished Amnon? Was he reticent to exact justice because he himself was still feeling the stain of his own sexual sin?
None of this and or the major plot points of the actual David and Bathsheba story are accurately portrayed in Veggietales. As a kid I loved Veggietales. As an adult I view them as near downright heresy peddling almost a fake Christian ethic, understanding, and teaching.
"King George and the Rubber Ducky" does not even get CLOSE to the actual depravity of which David did when he killed Uriah and got Bathsheba pregnant. We're talking the same story that inspired the song "Amazing Grace".
But like most things that @philvischer and crew did ... they watered it down and made it a sad ghost of it's actual true real self thereby seemingly appointing themselves artistic / defacto retellers of the story for "kids" sake.
The watering down or "babying" of kids content is some of the most annoyingly evil stuff that has happened in the last 40 years when you compare that something like "The Hobbit" was intended for kids or Star Wars where Luke Skywalker sees his aunt and uncle fried before his own eyes scorched to a crisp.
Childen's work used to actually have gravitas and purpose and real heart and consequences and show and teach children about morality, not just give you this moralistic therapeutic deism for children stripped of any of its power.
And it shows in what people emphasize in the story at large as they often want to focus on David and Bathsheba today ... not the fact that idk DAVID STRAIGHT UP got a dude KILLED.
See in the Veggietales version there are 0 stakes. No body dies. Nobody actually suffers. It's even marketed as a "Lesson in Selfishness" which is hilarious considering that the actual story of David and Bathsheba was more about just the insanity of sin and lust and power and murder and how even the "best of men" (David) can succumb to these temptations and fall and that forgiveness can be found if one repents but that does not make punishment go away.
In the real story, Uriah dies. The baby David and Bathsheba dies. There is scandal and it's no surprise that later on when Amnon rapes Tammar this is seen as being in a chain connected to this event earlier on the House of David. Would Absolom have taken action to kill his brother if David had more swiftly punished Amnon? Was he reticent to exact justice because he himself was still feeling the stain of his own sexual sin?
None of this and or the major plot points of the actual David and Bathsheba story are accurately portrayed in Veggietales. As a kid I loved Veggietales. As an adult I view them as near downright heresy peddling almost a fake Christian ethic, understanding, and teaching.
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