The Fred Rogers documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor feels radically subversive

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

That argument is that Fred Rogers’s worldview, a kind of humanism that had roots in Rogers’s Christianity but expressed itself as a commitment to everyone’s dignity, is what helped many navigate the scariest events of childhood (RFK’s assassination, the Challenger shuttle explosion). And the power of that worldview, the film suggests, doesn’t 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, Jesus’s 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.

To read more:

https://www.vox.com/summer-movies/2018/6/7/17433834/mister-fred-rogers-neighborhood-wont-you-be-my-neighbor-review

[trotsky]

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]

3. Agreed. eom

[Bretton Garcia]

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]

4. So you are the one who decides who knows?

Congratulations on your election, or appointment, or anointing, or whichever applies.