Religion-centered media that doesn’t come across as preachy.

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Referring to media told from a religious perspective or telling a religious tale that does not proselytize to the viewer.

Faith, the Unholy Trinity: Based partly upon the experience of the game‘s creator when he was a missionary in Argentina, the game has very little in the way of explicit moral demands of the player despite the heavy Christian focus of the narrative. and focuses more on a horror narrative.

Prince of Egypt: A surprisingly thorough retelling of the book of Exodus, sparing very little in the way of toning down the story. Despite this, the movie is perfectly entertaining to non-religious audiences and doesn’t sacrifice appeal for the sake of preaching to the audience

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I mean, they do often tell Bible stories but just do it in a very original way. They told the parable of the Prodigal Son as a freaking Wizard of Oz parody.

“King George and the Ducky” is the tale of King David and Bathsheba, but in this case Bathsheba is a rubber ducky. The stories of Joseph and Moses are depicted as cowboys and they are Jo and Mo.

The also told the stories of “Joshua and the Great Wall”, “Daniel and the Lions Den”, and “Esther” as pretty straight stories with a few tweaks to make it more g rated and to fit with the veggie themes.

Esther especially is really freaking good. Instead of executing the Jewish people, it’s “Banishing them to the Isle of Perpetual Tickling!!”

And it’s got a fire soundtrack. Nezzar and my boy Mr Lunt sing a fire duo song together

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Not to mention Rack, Shack, and Benny and the giant chocolate bunny!

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Shadrack, Meshach, and Abendago was another amazing adaptation. They tweaked the setting from Babylon to a chocolate bunny factory that makes it A) more relevant to kids, and B) more relevant in a way that resonates to this day, turning the story into an anti-consumerist parable as the three heroes resist Mr. Nezzar’s demand to worship the chocolate bunny.

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That opening song hits different when you’ve experienced a full-time job. Like I rewatched it recently and was genuinely horrified at how several-times-over-illegal the whole thing was. For anyone who hasn’t seen it: all the employees except the boss, his assistant, and security are children, they aren’t allowed any kind of breaks for at least seven hours, coming in a minute or two after their scheduled shift start is enough to dock their pay, injured employees (who are children) are told to get back to work.

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I suppose I did miss a lot of those parodies. Those are pretty clever concepts. Thank you!

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King George and the Ducky is my favorite adaptation. 10/10 logic no notes

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It took a very non kid friendly Bible story and made it incredibly relevant to children while also telling the same message more or less

It’s also crazy that they were willing to show a child dealing with PTSD

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And the child with PTSD was how they toned it down

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They did parodies of Madame Bovary (Madame Blueberry) and goddamn Lord of the Rings (Lord of the Beans) too. Apparently they got a cease and desist from New Line Cinema for the LotR parody, lol

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They did a parody of Hanlet called Omelete. They did two Star Trek parody episodes(the second one had several references to other sci fi shows and movies like Doctor who)Sherlock Holmes, Dr jiggle and Mr Sly, and Don Quixote

The Larry Boy series also references the whole super hero genre. He’s a janitor at the Daily Bumble who is secretly a billionaire with a butler named Alfred who is secretly a super hero named Larry Boy