the Unexpressed Advantage

"We're gonna go minister to the world on MTV." – washingtonpost.com

There's something on TV called "Run's House". I don't really know what it is, but occasionally my bitTorrent client will start downlading it because it thinks that it is the tv show "house" (generally quite a good show except for the fact that it's not on the air because there's some kind of strike going on so now there's no tv but only lots and lots of reality shows). What is this world coming to. Wasn't there a movie about this? Some kind of thing where it was like 500 years in the future, and due to the inbreeding of dumb people we wound up with a situation where the only things that people did were eat fast foot, drink beer, and sit around watching NASCAR and reality TV?

What movie was that anyway?

Oh yeah, back to Run's house. I've never watched it, but the article above mentions out some subtleties about the show that lead me to believe it has lots of great examples of both the shortcomings of reality tv AND everything that's wrong with the so called Health and Wealth Gospel.

Examples:

What was your family's reaction to the idea? (of doing a reality show)

I told my family and they were down. I said we're gonna go minister to the world on MTV. When we work, we understand that it's unto God, so we're serving. Serving in the capacity of a reality show.

?!?

My ministry is family. It's a church that leads by example instead of preaching to you. Showing you the lifestyle that comes from serving God. Not so much the cars and the house, but the peace and health that's in my home.

Translation: Please disregard all this bling. I save that for the actual church, not the metaphorical church of my family.

If you don't want the cranberry sauce on the buffet, don't eat it.

Translation: You don't need to eat your vegetables kids. Do whatever you want.

How did you become a reverend?

I didn't like what was happening in my life. I started going to church. I kept going every day and the collar just kind of got wrapped around my neck.

Translation: I rule; other people know I rule.

What do you hope to accomplish for the duration of the show?

God has given me a pioneering spirit. It's a Tyler Perry type of thing. How do you get God into the movie theater and entertain people? It's a blessing. It's huge. In Times Square, me and all my family are covering every window of MTV and I have a collar on. That's the most unbelievable thing in the entire world.

No Translation, I just wanted to point out two things.

1. Tyler Perry's "pioneering spirit" gave us Liv Tyler, so I'm gonna go ahead and say that is a good thing.

1. he didn't remotely answer the question.

   The first time I wrote this post, I put "all in good fun" here, which some took to mean that I was kidding about the whole thing or taking it back. Not the case. I'm being critical, but I also admit that I've never seen "Run's House" and probably wont, so Run might be the sauce on my gravy, which wouldn't really surprise me. I just want to make sure that everyone knows that reality tv is evil. It's not spam and Christian industry marketing¹ evil, but it's pretty evil.

   
   
   1. see also: pimping-out-jesus-for-cash [ƒ]