246: VeggieTales Is Dangerous
Now That We're A Family
Elisha and Katie Voetberg
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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A few episodes ago, we mentioned in passing that we disapprove of VeggieTales for our children. That comment sparked some inquires from you listeners and you wanted clarity as to why we don’t approve of it. We both discussed it and asked ourselves if this was beyond our opinion and preference or if we do actually have a conviction against VeggieTales. Come to find out, we both have some convictions regarding it. We are going to share what those are in this episode and answer some of the questions that you have about it.
First of all, VeggieTales is disrespecting and degrading to Scripture. There is no reverence to history and how God chose to tell history. It also doesn’t paint a high view of God for our children. It reduces the Christian heroes of the faith and God’s presence in Scripture as this comedic, foolish nonsense that is worth laughing at and getting a cheap joke from. It is not with awe, holiness and reverence like it should be.
My issue is the danger with the specific VeggieTale videos that are based from the Bible. It is skewing Scripture and making it a laughing stock and treating it in a very trivial manner. It’s confusing when the message is way off and it’s supposed to be Scriptural based. It’s very foolish and disrespectful to God and Scripture and what He’s done through His people. As well as the really dark things that these people have walked through in faith.
Our children are capable of so much more than the little crumbs that we feed them. Their brains are very capable of absorbing big concepts and themes. We don’t need to shy away from the truth, elegance and beauty of Scripture.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy folks, welcome back to the podcast. A few episodes ago, Katie and I mentioned in passing that we |
| 0:06.8 | disapprove of Vegetables for our children. And that sparked some inquiries from you listeners, whether that was through messaging emails, even in the comments section, and you wanted clarity on to why we don't approve of veggie tales. |
| 0:20.0 | And Katie and I got with each other and we're like, well, is this beyond just our opinion? |
| 0:25.0 | Like is this a preference thing or do we actually have some convictions against |
| 0:29.0 | veggie tails? |
| 0:30.0 | And come to find out, we both have some convictions againstggie Tails. So we're going to talk |
| 0:34.7 | about what those are in this episode and maybe answer some of those questions that |
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| 1:14.8 | Okay, you guys, so tonight was going to be this light-hearted episode about Vegetales, |
| 1:20.4 | and we actually had to restart this episode because |
| 1:26.4 | Elish and I had to get on the same page |
| 1:28.1 | about what we thought about Benji Tails. |
| 1:30.1 | Yeah, we didn't think it was gonna be a debate. |
| 1:31.6 | No, we didn't. |
| 1:32.4 | We've never really talked this out before. We've just both not wanted to show our children veggie tails. But we'd never talked out our reasons why. |
| 1:43.0 | And so here we are |
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