So after watching "Fresh off the Boat" and "Crazy Rich Asians," it appears that only Asians can be both good guys and openly Christian.
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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
Christian Asians on the Screen
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I agree that it's a rare TV writer who can write sympathetic and believable characters who are explicitly Christian, or indeed who tries to write about religion at all. The well-written Christian characters I could think of were Brother Theo and his colleagues from Babylon 5, and Shepherd Book from Firefly, but I had to think awhile to come up with these, and neither of these shows is currently on the air, so that says something. Maybe writers and producers are afraid they're going to offend someone if they mention any particular religion, or maybe they just don't know how to write religious characters.
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I presume you mean the mobile phone scene - I did have to laugh that the passage they were reading was Colossians "set your minds on things above, not on earthly things" and at that point they each get a text about Nicks GF and stop to gossip.
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Babylon 5 portrayed religion quite honestly. One particularly good episode was one in which a family from a planet with a "Christian Scientist"-like religion was refusing to allow their son to be treated of a deadly-but-curable disease by the station doctor.
The station doctor insisted that the commander use his power to force the parents to accept treatment. Instead, the commander refused to get involved, stating that it was imperative for the validity of the station that all peoples be allowed to follow their own moral codes.
Interestingly, Babylon 5 was written by an atheist.
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