A Grey Christmas
Okay, so you know the TV show Grey's Anatomy, right? I'm starting to like it better than Lost, because Lost seems to have lost their way...at least in holding my attention. Back stories are okay, but it would be nice to have something happen with the present plot line too.
Yes, this is a blog about Christmas in one cultural context. In case you haven't noticed, TV is a large part of our culture, and I'd make a wild guess that it's where most people get most of their information and entertainment. If you want both at the same time, you can watch Fox news as long as you're entertained by ridiculous propaganda and you don't mind not having truth mixed in with what they pass off as reporting; but that's another subject. Personally I get my news from the Daily Show.
Anyway, back to Grey's Anatomy. This past week's show had a Christmas theme, (tiz the season), which tied into all the varied relationship plots and surgeries. There was a boy needing a heart transplant, but who didn't want one because he found out that Santa wasn't really where the new heart would come from, and that somebody had to die for him to live. There were characters that had Jesus and Christmas trees (by the way, did you know the Bible forbids cutting down a tree and decorating it? No, really, read Jer. 10) , and there were those that were the bah humbug type. But the best line, besides just about everyone wishing each other a Merry Christmas, and not "Happy Holidays" that some of the way right religious factions seem to believe is a liberal plot to take the Christ out of Christmas, was a line spoken by the character Izzie. For those of you who don't know, she'd caught her boyfriend intern, who wouldn't even kiss her, in bed with a nurse. She finds out that her friends are helping him study because he'd failed some Doctor-to-be test and that if he failed again, he'd be fired. Well...she's ticked at her friends for helping him when she finds out, and yells at them and then goes to yell at her (ex)boyfriend. But she ends up helping him study. Why? That's just what he asks her, and thus her reply:
"Because that's what Jesus would freeking want me to do!"
And that dear friends and detractors, is really showing the Christmas, or Christ-like spirit. You do good things for people who don't deserve it, who you may not even like. Because Jesus was born to lay down his life for all of us who don't deserve it. To die that we can live. (Note: he didn't kill so we could be free...)
So that's what we're called to do; to do good to those that despitefully use us, to love our enemies, feed the poor, cloth the naked.
because that's what Jesus would freeking do...
Yes, this is a blog about Christmas in one cultural context. In case you haven't noticed, TV is a large part of our culture, and I'd make a wild guess that it's where most people get most of their information and entertainment. If you want both at the same time, you can watch Fox news as long as you're entertained by ridiculous propaganda and you don't mind not having truth mixed in with what they pass off as reporting; but that's another subject. Personally I get my news from the Daily Show.
Anyway, back to Grey's Anatomy. This past week's show had a Christmas theme, (tiz the season), which tied into all the varied relationship plots and surgeries. There was a boy needing a heart transplant, but who didn't want one because he found out that Santa wasn't really where the new heart would come from, and that somebody had to die for him to live. There were characters that had Jesus and Christmas trees (by the way, did you know the Bible forbids cutting down a tree and decorating it? No, really, read Jer. 10) , and there were those that were the bah humbug type. But the best line, besides just about everyone wishing each other a Merry Christmas, and not "Happy Holidays" that some of the way right religious factions seem to believe is a liberal plot to take the Christ out of Christmas, was a line spoken by the character Izzie. For those of you who don't know, she'd caught her boyfriend intern, who wouldn't even kiss her, in bed with a nurse. She finds out that her friends are helping him study because he'd failed some Doctor-to-be test and that if he failed again, he'd be fired. Well...she's ticked at her friends for helping him when she finds out, and yells at them and then goes to yell at her (ex)boyfriend. But she ends up helping him study. Why? That's just what he asks her, and thus her reply:
"Because that's what Jesus would freeking want me to do!"
And that dear friends and detractors, is really showing the Christmas, or Christ-like spirit. You do good things for people who don't deserve it, who you may not even like. Because Jesus was born to lay down his life for all of us who don't deserve it. To die that we can live. (Note: he didn't kill so we could be free...)
So that's what we're called to do; to do good to those that despitefully use us, to love our enemies, feed the poor, cloth the naked.
because that's what Jesus would freeking do...
posted by Bob | 13.12.05
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