Bibleman

I saw this show on a local channel at my house called PAX. It stars Willie Aames ("Eight is Enough") as a...BIBLE MAN! He fights justice with a crossbreed between a lightsaber and a laser pen, defeating Greed, Jealousy, Corruption, etc...

I'm not sure if the show is supposed to be ridiculous or not. For example: Bible Man fights with a baddie and takes his lightsaber out for the fight. He swings it at baddie, misses, and hits some wood. The saber bounces off the wood with sparks. Now, if this thing is a laser shouldn't it cut through wood?!

Aside from things like that, this show if family friendly...if a bit odd...

I am going to be brief about this horrifying series, let me begin by stating I am a Christian, so I hold no kind of vendetta against the morals portrayed.

Let me explain my feelings about this show in one sentence: This is an awfully acted, horrifically directed, terribly written, atrociously misinformed, horrendously uninspired "series" that deserves to have a warning on it to keep unsuspecting families from renting it.

That is my one sentence review, there you have it.

NOTE: This series does not reflect what Christians enjoy to watch, quite the contrary really.

Bibleman is truly a sorry/awful way for any Christian parent to teach their children any sort of values. Veggies Tales has stories with characters(cute veggies), and lots of other Christian animated videos. Got this for my son for Christmas(2006)this year, because I thought it would be more mature for his age(9). Boy was I wrong. He went back to the Veggie Tales, & The Pond, after only 15 minutes of watching BIBLEMAN. It was such a waste of money, and the time. I had to force my son into watching BIBLEMAN. I tried everything, to try to get him to watch it longer. He politely asked me to please put in the VEGGIE TALE video so he could watch that one.

Oh, Lord.

After seeing this badly acted, badly written, and the worst superhero since Puma Man (which itself had an odd theology), I don't know which is scarier - the thought that this piece of dung was thought of, or that Willie Aames (of "Eight Is Enough" infamy) stars in it, or these posters who call it "excellent", and "great for the whole family".

Only if that family has Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo wisecracking and making fun of it.

Although this show is jam-packed with scripture, I have to say that I am afraid that this show is making a mockery of Christianity. As Christians, we should be trying to put truth in media, yes, but I do not understand how creating a character like "Bible Man" can be helpful to portraying messages of truth. It is just hard for me to watch yet another show that is so heavily drenched in Christian subculture that it is not sensitive to the non-Christian ears that we could be witnessing to in more creative, loving, and less in-your-face kind of ways. Christianity is a lifestyle and a personal relationship with God, not a battle against the unsaved.