One of the fascinating aspects of being in community with others is a search for something to be offended about. So many people walk into a room or go to a place of business or entertainment and see things through judgment: and they look for things that are considered wrong by them that they should be upset about or even offended about.
I get that way sometimes. I want things a certain way. I even joked that I get along with everybody as long as we do things my way. But I don't know that I'd go in looking to be offended by something.
If I did it would be very easy. As a Christian the entertainment industry majority seems to have it out for me and my God. They make me and my fellow believers out to be evildoers that just want to control everybody else. A limp noodle people that are easily swayed and controlled by others. Which is kind of funny because they portray Christians as both extremes which one is it?
But even having been involved in scouting and raising three Eagle Scouts I could easily be offended. The Boy Scout motto is be prepared. But in the movie the Lion King the people driving that story and bringing that entertainment to the market threw a song in there where the bad guy was telling all his henchmen "be prepared" for when I overthrow the king. And they repeated it over and over-be prepared, be prepared.
Even after all these years of seeing that movie I still think of that and think how that could so easily undermine the great message that scouting has.
Luckily it didn't! I continue to be prepared for so many different things. My mother jokes about my backpack and how after raising our kids I still can be asked hey do you have this and I can reach into my bag of wonders and usually pull something out that's very close to what somebody's looking for. I don't want to get caught flat-footed.
But I do. And when I do I handle it and move on. And then I added to my bag of tricks.
I wish the entertainment industry moguls would just produce fun entertainment and leave the messaging happy and easy. Happy and easy is different for everybody and mine may not match up with their happy and easy. Such is life!
