News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
In our Dear BaBee column, we help readers by dispensing authentic, biblical answers to life’s tough questions.
Dear BaBee,
I got home from work the other day, and my wife was on the couch watching TV. I thought nothing of it. But then I froze as I heard the words coming from the screen: “It’s time for the Jedi to end.” In a panic, I confronted her, and sure enough, she was watching The Last Jedi. She tried to play it off like it was no big deal and thinks I’m overreacting. She even rolled her eyes and said I should “calm down” and “stop brandishing that lightsaber at me, it is a pretend toy.”
Do you think this constitutes biblical grounds for divorce?
– Triggered in Tennessee
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Dear Triggered,
In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus says that there’s only one ground for divorce: marital unfaithfulness. Not all wrongs in a marriage meet this standard. For instance, if she had just been watching the prequels, you could probably get by with some tough marital counseling. If you’re seriously thinking about divorce, you need to ask if enjoying The Last Jedi is really the equivalent of cheating on you.
And the answer, of course, is yes. She betrayed those vows she made to you all those years ago by forsaking the true Star Wars canon.
Go here to read the rest. I don’t know Bee. Agreed that the action of the wife was pretty bad, but it was not unforgivable. It wasn’t as if she dissed Babylon 5 for example, or contended that Patrick Stewart made a superior captain to Shatner. Priorities, Bee, priorities!
From what I’ve heard one of the major issues that long time Star Wars fans have is that the sequel-trilogy plays it fast and loose with the canon of the saga. You could say that the dispute is over the hermeneutic of continuity versus the hermeneutic of rupture. Between coherence and incoherence.
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I’ve watched several YouTube videos about the Star Wars controversy done by Nerdrotic. The critical fans have been referred to as the Fandom Menace. The guy in the videos at Nerdrotic calls J. J. Abrams Jar Jar Abrams. Nerdrotic has also been covering other franchises like Star Trek and Dr. Who.
Pope Francis is directing the church in the wrong path. Can he be stop?