Matt Groaning creator of the Simpsons uses his trademark satire and television show to deliver a political statement over the process of church and the material found in the old testament of the bible in its 10th season episode 18 labeled "Simpson Bible Stories." The setup of the episode has the Simpson family sitting front row at church nearly passed out due to boredom when the preacher extends the Easter sermon for finding a chocolate bunny in the collection tray and labeling it as a false idol. Each Old Testament biblical retelling is funneled through each of a Simpson family members sub conscious as they pass out listening to the sermon. The wife Marge 's dream is focused on the retelling story of Adam and Eve. This version acts as an alternative …show more content…
This last dreamscape comments on the political expulsion of some material from the Bible either being tampered with or edited by church officials to make a certain persons character not be tarnished by the horrible or embarrassing things they have done. Repeatedly David, played by the son Bart, messes up or does something horrible to reply with the same thought every time, “I hope they don’t put that in the Bible.” This idea is interesting because it brings into David’s major character flaws that are present in the Bible but are overshadowed by the fact that he was an efficient king. Even after David conquers the giant monster, which he fails the first time, the people say that he really wasn’t that bad of a king just a bad person which the people were originally fine with in the case of David. This alternate telling also makes fun of the biblical timeline having the final battle on the top of the tower of Babel and having David constantly forgetting that Goliath 2 isn’t Samson every time he cuts his hair to drain his strength commenting that, “These Biblical, timelines get confusing
When you sit down to watch Television after a long day you never give a thought to the possible message or real world comparisons within the episode. After watching and analysing an original episode of The Simpsons my eyes were opened to the message that was buried within the cartoon. In Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment, the writer Matt Groening uses the Simpson family to display a natural struggle between the Id, Ego, and Superego. The episode features the internal conflict between pleasure and reality while expanding it to the world around the characters as well.
Move over Jetson there is a new beloved animated family in town, the Simpsons. The Simpson’s originally aired on December 17th, 1989 and has yet to make us stop laughing. The Simpson’s follow a not so typical American family from the fictional town of Springfield. The episode follow the satirical lives of Homer (Dad), Marge (mom), Bart (brother), Lisa (sister), and Maggie (little sister). Though this is a satirical TV show many episodes provide excellent points and example of material covered in a sociology class. The episode “Marge not be Proud” gives multiple examples of deviant behavior and this essay will discuss two of them.
A loss of David’s innocence appears during his killing of a magpie. This “it can be done in a flick of the finger”. The particular significance about this plays an important part in his as he considers that he also is capable of committing such unfortunate yet immoral things. “Looking in the dead bird’s eye, I realised that these strange, unthought of connections - sex and death, lust and violence, desire and degradation - are there, there, deep in even a good heart’s chambers”.
The night of the decapitation and the night which David goes to the club are both brutal winter nights stricken with bad weather. The way in which both nights are described are the same, they have this eerie quality and are both explained with the fear of driving on the treacherous roads. The night of the decapitation David was among those who witnessed it, getting back in a cab to go home he starts imagining and creating a alternate reality to live in. One without the decapitation of Sandra Stansfield. In his mind he pictures this club which now he has been going to for ages and starts recalling the time since his first visit. When recalling his first visit he cannot remember the exact year because he never set the date in his alternate reality. David says "coming home that night, I would think of the combination of snow, a taxi and New York City with considerably greater unease... But I did not of course know that then" (King, 1982, p.439). He has repressed the memory of the traumatic event and has little unease about the taxi in this weather. Not until later does he remember what had happened to Sandra, when it comes back to him like a reoc...
For the Bible Tells Me So is a documentary that explores the way people in the Christian church, more specifically literalists or fundamentalists have treated people who identify of liking the same gender who strive in the church. Most of these literalists will use their religious book, the Bible, to wrong those that are following the ways of homosexuality by taking it quite literally. Through this, it shows how religious groups play a role on many families who have a daughter or a son who identify themselves as homosexual. Through this analysis using the symbolic interactionist perspective, it is evident that religion is causing the people who identify as homosexual to see themselves in a different light.
The story of David and Goliath can be thought of as a timeless tale of
Today I received a referral from a family who is seeking help regarding their dysfunctional family structure. The Simpson’s are a nuclear family that is having difficulties living as a family. I have already spoken to Marge Simpson and agreed to find a way to get her husband and children to therapy. She has very high aspirations of attending therapy with her family because she has longed for a “normal” functioning family in which her husband and children interact in a much healthier manner than they do now. She described her husband of being careless, her son uncontrollable ate times, and her daughters disconnected from the family. We have set up the meeting for next week, Wednesday at six, when she believed her family would be more willing to attend and actually participate in the therapy session.
David growing up as a child lived in a house where there was no love shown or caring relationships. He grew up not knowing what good relationships looked like or felt like. David did not think too highly of his dad or aunt and always had
The Book of Daniel is the only full-blown apocalyptic book in the Protestant recognized version of the Canon. A literary device divides the book into two halves. Chapters 1-6 are a collection of stories that introduces the reader to Daniel and three other Israelites as unwilling guests of the Babylonia Empire ruled by Nebuchadnezzar. The second half, Chapters 7-12 consists of apocalyptic imagery of deformed beasts and the heavenly court. The focus of this paper will be on chapter 7, which serves as a bridge of the two halves. Chapter 7 is the earliest of the visions as it identifies with the genre of 8-12 while through language and content it reverts to Daniel chapter 2. The linguistic break down is not as neat as the literary divide in that Dan. 2:4b-7:28 was written in Aramaic while other portions of the book is written in Hebrew.
It is known to most that the gospels often differ from historical facts due to the writer of each gospel putting significant emphasis on particular actions and attributes of Jesus. Also a major part in this difference is the fact that the gospels were written 35-60 years after the death of Jesus and some of these memories have altered over time. Differences in conflicting evidence, writing to different communities, writing during a different time period, and with different intentions are all more reasons as to why these gospels conflict with historical facts. There is said to be six accounts that are subdivided into two separate traditions. These two traditions are those having to do with the appearance of Jesus in Galilee and the others are the appearances of Jesus to the eleven disciples in Jerusalem. These two traditions seem to not have any knowledge of one another and when the two were attempted to be combined into one tradition it was proven that this is not only impossible but it is unbeneficial.
Every Christians today knows the story of Jesus birth. The story of how Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem for a censes declared by the Roman Empire. While not being able to find an inn to stay in and Mary getting ready to give birth, they stow away in the cave where the animals were kept. While there Mary gave birth to a son and called him Jesus. While Jesus was in a manger a heavenly host of angles came down and also Shepard’s from the field came and rejoiced the savior was born. This is where the typical nativity scene comes from. Unless you have a Doctorate and teach a History of the New testament class and go into fine detail about the story, then story this is what people hear. Well this is for History of the New Testament so the fine details are what we are looking for. Most people do not realize that the story they tell every Christmas is actually a combination of two stories. The birth story is told in the Gospels of Luke and the Gospels of Mathew but each tell a very different version of what actually happened and that is what leads to people questioning the accuracy of the bible today.
is a fight just to survive for the next day . As a child David is taught a very harsh way of
Within the Simpsons, Marge Simpson is portrayed as the typical loving housewife who gathers her family every Sunday to attend Church. She is caring and definitely not unfair, and she is helpful to every other character. Her frustration is most noticeable when Homer informs her one Sunday that he does not believe in God and refuses to go to Church. When alone, God approaches Homer in his dream and confronts him about why he didn't go to Church. Homer replies that he isn't a bad guy, and he takes care of his children, so "Why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?"
The writing style of an author plays a giant role in expressing certain details and letting the reader become more drawn into the piece of literature. In the story summary David and Goliath, which we get from the first book of Samuel chapter seventeen verses one through fifty eight. This popular bible story expresses how a young and weak teenage boy named David can take down a giant with name of Goliath with faith in God. The use of different elements used throughout the summary such as diction, imagery, and language gives off hopeful feel because the main point of the story is for the reader to understand that anything is possible with God.
How do we see the Bible? Do we see it merely as a historical narrative of what happened in the ancient past? Do we see it merely as devotional inspiration for a moment? Do we see its pages as the world’s greatest literary volume? Do we see the Bible as a secret disclosure of coming events and the consummation of the age? Do we see it as a tool to win arguments from a theological stand point? Or do we see it as fragments of truth that will confirm and strengthen our prejudices?