Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
214,144
edits
The Moral Substitute: Difference between revisions
m
→Other
m (→Literature) |
m (→Other) |
||
Line 174:
** The page quote comes from an episode where Bobby gets interested in Christianity due to a group of devout skateboarders. Hank spends most of the episode looking kind of bad (since he started off wanting Bobby to care more about their faith, but hates the direction he's taking), but in the end he explains that he just doesn't want Bobby to treat something that important as a mere fad, like his long-forgotten Troll Dolls and Tamagochi.
== Other Media ==
* Branson, Missouri, in the words of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', is "Vegas if it were run by Ned Flanders." <ref>Unless, of course, you take the wrong bus and end up in ''[[Charles Bronson|Bronson]]'', Missouri...</ref> To explain: the city offers elaborate hotels, shopping, and tons of live shows, but there's no gambling or "party scene". The shows focus on G-rated entertainment, especially musical revues—oldies, [[Country Music|country]], and Broadway are the most frequently appearing genres. Other shows include grand-scale musical adaptations of Bible stories, and such headliners as Andy Williams (Nelson Muntz's favorite!), Yakov Smirnoff, the Oak Ridge Boys, Tony Orlando, and [[Riding With Death|Jim Stafford.]]
* There have been "alternatives" to [[Scout Out|the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts]] from every direction. [[Glorious Mother Russia|The Soviet Union]], for instance, had the Pioneers, and [[Nazi Germany]] had the infamous Hitler Youth. A number of churches have also created their own "scouting" organizations, such as the Pathfinders (Seventh Day Adventists), the Royal Rangers for boys and Missionettes for girls (Assemblies of God), and Awana (Southern Baptists). More recently, due to the increasingly conservative bent of the Boy Scouts of America (not surprising, since Lord Baden-Powell came up with the idea during one of Britain's imperial wars of conquest, and "scouts" throughout history have traditionally been connected to the military), there are also a few scouting organizations that have sprung up with the aim of being more accepting of gays, lesbians, and non-Christians.
Line 191:
*** Sometimes. Their track record on even-handedness is very uneven, both between various State chapters and between the local organizations and the national organization. As with all advocacy organizations, they have their own biases.
* For people who believe proprietary software is evil, Linux and other free/open source software can be a secular example. Quite a few packages exist solely to replace popular proprietary software, such as GIMP for Paint Shop Pro or Adobe Photoshop.
** Worth to note that most of these were never ''meant'' to be Moral Substitutes. GIMP, for instance, was created because Adobe [[No Export for You|doesn't port]] (Photoshop) or [[Bad Export for You|only lazily ports]] (*cough*[[Adobe Flash|flashplayer]]*cough<ref>(
* [http://www.churchofreality.org/wisdom/welcome_home/ The Church of Reality] is a secular humanist alternative to religion, for people with an emotional or cultural need for religion but no belief in the supernatural.
* A whole industry of vegetarian products exists to provide replacements for burgers and bacon, among others.
| |||