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The Last Tango in
Halifax tells a winsome tale of how two families and their friends get on,
when Alan and Celia rekindle a flame, 60 years old. The writing is
excellent. The whole production, terrific! The characters and their
peccadilloes are wholly believable; even the rascals are engaging. A form
of religion is in the background, but with no substance, except negative
stereotypes and bad language. And by word and deed, they are all doing fine with out God, having given up
on Him long ago.
While the series began with a winsome premise – this last
week’s chapter was anything but charming. It’s a quietly disturbing propaganda piece about life in the
post-Christian era.
If you read a summary of the episodes, thus far, it reads
like real people we know. God
knows I’ve walked down a few paths on which the characters are now treading!
(See a summary: Last
Tango in Halifax.) But, last
night’s episode took my breath away.
They do terrible
things to themselves and to each other! I have grown to care about all these
people – and what they get themselves into – their pain is so credible.
It’s what life looks like, when people do what is right in
their own eyes – and the depravity
seems harmless enough at first.
Okay – if you are still reading after that word, let me
hasten to say, I have loved this show!
Would that I felt so deeply for the real
people God has placed so directly in my path.
I am in Chapter 3 of Exodus. (Bible
Study . . . Again) It’s where God commissioned Moses to go to the
Israelites first, and tell them God is real, with eyes, ears, and a heart.
(Exodus 3:6-7) Then, Moses would get to carry this message to Pharaoh. Moses was not on board with this plan,
however, having made a good life for himself and family in Midian. I can so
relate to his hedging!
Too often, I don’t want to unplug from well-done propaganda
that says, everybody is doing just fine without God. I look at this story, Last Tango in Halifax, and I can see
people are hurting! Habits, hurts and hang-ups can make us crazy, mean or
stupid.
But who wants to be a messenger with God’s remedy? I so get why Moses wanted someone else
to go!
And that means killing off everything
connected with that way of death: sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing
whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever
attracts your fancy . . . It wasn’t long ago that you were doing all that stuff
and not knowing any better. But you know better now, so make sure it’s all gone
for good: bad temper, irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty talk. (Colossians
3:5-8)
Alas, I regret unplugging from so well-written and acted a production, that misrepresents the truth.
"The Devil isn't as conspicuous in society as he once was, Scalia
said, because "he got wilier" and now advances his agenda by
"getting people not to believe in him or in God."
Current
Thoughts worth Pondering: Justice Scalia on
the Devil and God, among other topics.
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