What if cartoons could sing praise

But some actually took the premise of imaginary characters without souls getting saved seriously. And somehow they had access to the internet and even to transportation. Finally Rice had enough of people debating the theological ramifications of Fred Flintstone endorsing the faith.

Others wondered if Astro the Jetsons' dog should be praising the Lord. I wish I was kidding. Is it just me, or does it seem sacrilegious to have Astro from The Jetsons sing hallelujah ra-ra-ru-jah, to be exact?

I thought worship was about reverence toward God. I just dislike the entire thing. I'm even more disgusted with the cult following surrounding this song. I don't usually advocate censorship, but if someone wanted to organize a CD burning party for this song, I'd bring the beer. That all sounds very harsh. I know some people love the song and think it's just a clean, fun song that Christians can listen too. I just wonder when turning faith in God into a nursery rhyme was ever healthy for anyone involved.

Spreading the message that Christians can have fun would not be a bad thing. As for Astro I love that dog. Even though his sin nature seems to be prevailing in the photo it is wonderful that Astro is in the family.

If you listen to Chris Rice's entire body of work you will see that his lyrics demonstrate great reverence to God. I thought the idea of having a kegger at a CD burning party was a mature and godly response to the song. My biggest disagreement with this blog is his use of adverbs and adjectives. All we do is pander to the lowest common denominator.

We never push forward. We never ask real questions. Maybe I should be thanking Chris Rice. Maybe he's showed us that constantly pandering does not edify the church but in fact forces us to devolve until we're speaking in cartoon voices. I don't want to speak ill of Chris Rice, a man I have never met. I just wish to point out one of the many reasons I believe Christian music is irrelevant and in many cases detrimental.

All Christians do not pander to the lowest common denominator. Many are pushing forward and asking very real questions. Using words like "all" and "never" do not advance the dialog.

I think using this little ditty as an example of pandering is more than an over reaction. I think I will need to see the rest of the reasons that he believes that Christian music is irrelevant or this case gets thrown out of court. My comments are italicized. After 15 wonderful years of trouble-making and laughter, the beloved song about cartoons has finally been laid to rest. Well, actually just retired from live performances.

I wrote it about 15 years ago, as a joke. I threw it together in about 10 minutes and only intended it to be heard by a few people. It was a skit for a junior high youth group in a small church in Tennessee. Before singing it, I explained to them, in a light-hearted manner, that it's weird how we try to make Christian versions of everything.

Then I said, "I'm sure someone will try to do that with popular cartoons one day. Here's what I mean The kids laughed really hard. The youth minister, Robin, asked me to sing it for the whole church, so I sang it again. They laughed really hard too. So the next week, I sang it for another group of students.

Yeah, they laughed too. And before I knew it, I was singing "Cartoons" at a lot of camps. About 8 years later, after hearing me sing the song for a group of college students, my record label insisted that I record the song on my second CD. I resisted strongly, having never intended for such a silly song to be made popular.

I reluctantly agreed to record the song only if it could be a hidden track, and it would not be acknowledged in print on the CD booklet. My hope was that it would go unnoticed. I was naive. Here is where it gets really weird. In a movie inspired by the classic Michael W. Smith song Friends , audiences will follow a group of teenagers who meet at a Christian camp and make a pact to change their school for Jesus. Saying he originally signed on thinking it was another chance to work on a film about extraterrestrials, Steven Spielberg has agreed to executive produce an adaptation of Take Me to Your Leader by the Newsboys.

Seeking to build on the success of its Hunger Games trilogy of movies set in a dystopian future, Lionsgate Entertainment Company is releasing a big-screen adaptation of the song Jesus Freak by dcTalk. In , religion and music have been outlawed. An oppressive global government keeps citizens controlled through fear and violence.

But one young man starts a revolution with a simple act. He hijacks the TV signal and lifts up his T-shirt to reveal two simple words in a typical tattoo green: Jesus Saves.