...And I gave that man directions, even though I didn’t know the way, ’cause that’s the kind of guy I am this week.— Homer
...And I gave that man directions, even though I didn’t know the way, ’cause that’s the kind of guy I am this week.— Homer
Despite the many times that The Simpsons has mocked or satirized religion, it has earned an endorsement from the official Vatican newspaper on the occasion of the show's 20th anniversary, the Associated Press reported. In an article published on Tuesday in L'Osservatore Romano under the headline Aristotle's Virtues and Homer's Doughnut,
the show was praised for its realistic and intelligent writing
(and rapped on the knuckles for excessively crude language, the violence of certain episodes or some extreme choices by the scriptwriters
).
Keep an eye on it.
finds in God his last refugeand that the character's attitudes toward religion were
a mirror of the indifference and the need that modern man feels toward faith.
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