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Related: About this forumThe Fred Rogers documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor feels radically subversive
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That argument is that Fred Rogerss worldview, a kind of humanism that had roots in Rogerss Christianity but expressed itself as a commitment to everyones dignity, is what helped many navigate the scariest events of childhood (RFKs assassination, the Challenger shuttle explosion). And the power of that worldview, the film suggests, doesnt stop when childhood ends.....
Rogers, the film proposes, was interested in making goodness attractive in this next millennium, as he says in a PBS segment recorded late in his life. The idea that everyone has inherent dignity was obvious to him; if you say otherwise, for him, you might as well go against the fundamentals of Christianity.
After all, Jesuss answer to someone who asked him Who is my neighbor? was to tell the story of the Good Samaritan, a parable in which the most righteous and powerful members of his own society passed by a man lying in a ditch on the side of the road.
Rogers, the film proposes, was interested in making goodness attractive in this next millennium, as he says in a PBS segment recorded late in his life. The idea that everyone has inherent dignity was obvious to him; if you say otherwise, for him, you might as well go against the fundamentals of Christianity.
After all, Jesuss answer to someone who asked him Who is my neighbor? was to tell the story of the Good Samaritan, a parable in which the most righteous and powerful members of his own society passed by a man lying in a ditch on the side of the road.
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https://www.vox.com/summer-movies/2018/6/7/17433834/mister-fred-rogers-neighborhood-wont-you-be-my-neighbor-review
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The Fred Rogers documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor feels radically subversive (Original Post)
guillaumeb
Jun 2018
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trotsky
(49,533 posts)1. If only every Christian acted like Fred Rogers.
But I suspect he's just one of those people that would have been wonderful no matter what religion he followed, if any at all.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)3. Agreed. eom
Bretton Garcia
(970 posts)2. Nice guy maybe. But he doesn't know Jesus fully.
He probably didn't notice the place where Jesus told us to "hate" our biological families for example. Luke 14.26.
Or the parts where Jesus told his followers to be snakes, serpents.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)4. So you are the one who decides who knows?
Congratulations on your election, or appointment, or anointing, or whichever applies.