Posted on 12/22/2013 1:01:40 PM PST by Star Traveler
What people don’t know is that the Christmas special almost didn’t happen, because some not-so-smart television executives almost didn’t let it air. You see, Charles Schulz had some ideas that challenged the way of thinking of those executives 46 years ago, and one of them had to do with the inclusion in his Christmas cartoon of a reading from the King James Bible’s version of the Gospel of Luke.
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
There was a standoff of sorts, but Schulz did not back down, and because of the tight production schedule and CBS’s prior promotion, the network executives aired the special as Schulz intended it. But they were certain they had a flop on their hands.
“They were freaking out about something so overtly religious in a Christmas special,” explained Melendez. “They basically wrote it off, like, hey, this is just isn’t going to be interesting to anyone, and it’s just going to be like a big tax write-off.”
Melendez himself was somewhat hesitant about the reading from Luke. “I was leery of the religion that came into it, and I was right away opposed to it. But Sparky just assumed what he had to say was important to somebody.”
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Yes, it has been going on for a long time. People think it’s just recent, but it’s not. However it is getting a whole lot more pervasive,
Even “God’s chosen people” - the Jews of ancient Israel - had the same problem, which is part of the reason why God scattered them way back then - to now regathering them, once again - getting ready for His Son, the Messiah of Israel, to return and set up His Kingdom on earth.
But, it does even go further back in history - when we look at Noah and the worldwide flood to kill all of humanity. Jesus referred to this as to how it would be getting again - when He is about to return.
Of course, the Peanuts special was well before that.
Hey, another favorite — the stop motion The Little Drummer Boy.
Thanks for sharing. I had never seen it before.
No way you could have known...but The Little Drummer Boy is my favorite carole.
Your welcome. Mine too. :)
BFL
She was building on Hugo Black’s opinion in “Everson”(1947) which redefined the First Amendment to encompassed the sentiments of the Blaine (proposed) Amendment.
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