Godless and Shows like it

I should have said “Hell no!" 

Hell no I'm not going to watch a show called "Godless.” The name said it all. But Grandpa just died today and that is the show that Dad wanted to watch. So I watched it with him, and I hated every second of it. 

I hated it because I saw right through it. I couldn't be taken in by the stunning cinematography, because no matter how well you photograph shit, it is still a picture of shit. 

The show is a natural cultural outpouring in the vein of Yellowstone, insofar as it seems to rewrite American history by erasing Christianity from it, or perverting it, and replacing it with a godless ethic. 

Every person has a “highest thing." That thing might be himself, some thing or ideal, or God. For Christians, the highest thing is Jesus, a good God characterized by self-sacrificial love. But you wouldn't know it if all you ever learned about Christianity came from Yellowstone or Godless, which belong to a genre I'll call Liberally Perverted Western. These shows almost always cast Christians in a bad light and they make the self-sufficient agnostic the hero. 

These shows do not try to draw inspiration from real American Western history, they seek to rewrite it. 

In Godless, the blind liberal ideal is on shining display. Every native American is good without exception, every person of faith is either evil or misguided, disrespect is common, lesbian lovers are only a little taboo, all of the heroic men are effeminate and submissive, while all of the heroic women are dominate, and all of the traditionally manly looking men are the bad guys. Also blacks never experienced oppression and actually seem to dominate their white counterparts. Cool idea, but not history. 

I don't mind fictionalized alternative histories. I think they can be a very interesting way to see things in a new light. But I do have a problem with the co-opting of the sacred by woke media and the brainwashing of a generation. Multiple generations, since even my parents seem to get sucked into the lurid storytelling, however unfaithful to God or history it might be. 

Yes, there are bad people who claim to be Christians, but this is a minority and always has been. By and large, the real West was settled by God-fearing Christians who lived by Jesus' command, “Do to others as you would have them do unto you." Has any Christian ever got this perfect? No. But people who have accepted Jesus as Lord of their life and try to live by his commands are kind, hard-working, and fair, more-so than any human being whose highest ideal is himself, or herself, or theyself (I will not be watching any more of Godless but after what I've seen I have no doubt they will throw in some gender queer characters.)

The American Western as seen in cinema has admittedly never been all that Christian. But at least in the old westerns, the good guys were good and the bad guys were bad. 

But shows aren't like that anymore. Twenty years ago we started seeing the rise of the "anti-hero” and more and more shows where you could never really decide who was good and who was bad. And that trend has now become the norm.

That's not where real America came from. That's not the way our grandparents, great grandparents, or great great grandparents believed. 

I don't mind experimental story telling, but that is not what Godless is. Godless is a woke media organization’s attempt to weaken traditional values while instilling and normalizing woke ones (read: evil ones.)

The name should have been enough. Do you expect a show that names itself "Godless” to show Godliness in a good light? No, of course you don't. I didn't either, but my grandpa just died today, and that is the show my Dad wanted to watch.