There was an episode of “Law and Order” a few weeks ago that annoyed me immensely. They had some fundamentalist dude calling himself a Christian who incited a teen-aged boy to kill his mother to cleanse her from her sin of adultery. Of all the arguments the D.A. used, not one involved the fact that Christ didn’t advocate that hard-line stuff. In fact, He said, “He among you who is without sin, let him cast the first stone.”
“Law and Order” always does that—any time they deal with a “Christian” theme, they use wacko, pseudo-Christian types and use them to point up the flaws in religious zealotry. They (the writers) come off looking like jerks. In this case, they made the people of New York look stupid, too. The jurors, who smuggled a Bible into the jury room, couldn’t undermine the man’s “religious” beliefs either.
Twelve people in a room with a Bible and not one of them could find the New Testament?
I think the people of Manhattan should tell the “Law and Order” writers to quit making them look like idiots.
January 2010
A few weeks ago I saw another “Law and Order” dealing with a “Christian” theme—this episode was from around 2000. A former nun kills a kid while attempting to perform an exorcism, claiming that the Archangel Michael was giving her instructions. Jack McCoy says, “Maybe he was,” instead of asking the woman the obvious question: If you thought the kid needed an exorcism, why didn’t you tell the mother to go to the Catholic Church?
Seriously, the people of Manhattan ought to give the writers what-for for making them look like idiots.
May 13, 2018
Beating a dead horse:
Episode “In God We Trust” (2005):
Saw another “Law and Order” where a guy kills someone, finds Jesus, and lives an exemplary life for 11 years until they catch him. He’s willing to do time, but his lawyer and others feel that his true repentance should keep him out of jail. Again no one seems to be able to refute the argument on biblical grounds.
St. Paul, anyone?
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