A Peck of Gold

Finding God in Funny Places

"Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg..." Those rebellious words sung by Bart Simpson were the very reason I never got to watch The Simpsons when it first came out. I don't really blame my parents for that- NOBODY got to watch it at first. It seemed so... bad. But later, in college, when our parents weren't around to tell us what to do, we got wild. Oh yeah. We started having daily, unsupervised Simpsons meetings in the lobby of various dorms. We'd pile onto the plastic sofas with about a dozen of our friends and spend half an hour in Springfield. Talk about sowing our wild oats.

Well, we've graduated from plastic sofas to ones with actual cushions and pillows, but the tradition is the same. When Patrick gets off work, he walks through the door just in time for the show. Wrenn runs to him, and they grab a bag of chips and settle in for their daily, salty and silly ritual. And I don't mind. I know the Simpsons, they're good people.

Anyway, all that to say, I saw this book, The Gospel According to the Simpsons, and I'm wondering if anyone has read it. It's funny to me that there's a book about the spiritual life of the Simpsons, when they started off with such a bad reputation! I'm not surprised though. The more you watch The Simpsons, the more you realize that it's the most religious sitcom on t.v. today. I wouldn't say it's Sunday School material or anything, but it's definitely not the show we thought it was at the very beginning.

Anyway, that's all for now! Happy Wednesday everybody!