Re:Long Live Mister Rogers' Quiet Revolution
by bitwize on Friday March 16, 2018 @01:15PM
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Were he a Catholic, Fred Rogers would have by this point been beatified if not fully canonized. Few people within living memory exemplified the values Christianity purports to teach as thoroughly as he. If his approach was unrealistic, it was supposed to be. He applied a sort of extreme version of the Kantian categorical imperative: always acting as if he were at the same time willing that the real world be as peaceful, gentle, and tolerant as the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
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Re:Long Live Mister Rogers' Quiet Revolution
by ECrownofFire on Friday March 16, 2018 @07:13PM
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He was actually a Presbyterian minister, and the mission that the church gave him was to do his show. He approached everything in a way that was incredibly kind and caring for everyone, without being preachy in the slightest. He was even part of an LGBT outreach program at his local church! I'm not Christian (though I did grow up with a very religious mom and nana) nor am I a particularly religious woman, but I'm sure Fred Rogers would be chilling with the most holy people up in heaven lol. Like I honestly think that he was one of the most "Christ-like" people in a long time.