forbidden fruit http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/20183/all en ‘Good Christian’ Bashing Show Gets Racial http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/good-christian-bashing-show-gets-racial <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> New episode ‘Forbidden Fruit’ brings anti-Christian attacks to total of 137. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/lauren-thompson">Lauren Thompson</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>ABC seems to delight in playing the part of the snake in the Garden of Eden. The fifth episode in its Christian hate-mongering series “GCB” unleashed some forbidden fruits of its own, with more religious slurs and a few racial digs.<br /><br />Sunday’s sacrilegious episode included a knock on African-American churches, when character Cricket performed an overly dramatic rendition of “Amazing Grace.” Her daughter’s friend commented that Cricket “doesn’t even sound like a white woman.”<br /></p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/good-christian-bashing-show-gets-racial" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Culture Art & Entertainment Faith abc anti-Christian Christianity forbidden fruit GCB good christian race Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:35:47 +0000 julia.seymour 39717 at http://archive2.mrc.org