Can you say jesus in sitcom

He played it over and over again for several days, until the batteries died. Due to hearing it so often, to this day, I still remember these seven words. Of course, I won't repeat them here as they are all very crude. But in the decades since then, I have heard just about every one of these words on TV at one time or another. So TV has become gradually cruder over the years, and these are no longer "words you can never say on television.

But there are now two new such words: "Jesus" and "Christ. The above is a basic prayer that many Catholics will say before eating a meal. I know this prayer well as my Catholic father has always recited this prayer before family dinners. And Christians of other denominations will usually say a prayer of one kind or another before eating.

However, it is rare to hear someone recite a prayer before eating on a TV show. But surprisingly, I have heard the above prayer on three different shows in the fall of , as least in part.

The first time I heard it was for a show that I've never actually watched, but I saw a clip from it in an advertisement. In the ad, the rather large family is shown sitting at a table getting ready to eat. The elder prays this prayer, but only the first two lines and the final word "Amen.

He is kept in a cage. He prays this prayer when he is given something to eat. But when he does, he omits the fourth line.

You might recognize his name. He was the winner of the second season of "American Idol. In the clip of him at home, he is getting ready to eat dinner with his wife, and he recites this prayer, but NBC only aired him saying the second line.

Now maybe these networks are cutting the prayer down just to save time, but it really isn't that long to begin with, so why not have the various people recite all the lines?

And if they are trying to save time, why bother having them say a prayer at all? I'm guessing the networks are trying to appease us "religious folks" by including something that millions of Americans do, pray before eating a meal. But they don't want to "waste" too much time on it. But most of all, they don't won't to offend anyone by having someone say "through Christ our Lord.

It is just too much of a coincidence for all three networks to omit the same line for it not to be purposeful. I'm writing this article on New Year's Day, I'm thinking back to before it to when I first heard about this series in the fall of The reason I heard about it was because Fox News mentioned about atheists complaining about the Robertson family saying a prayer before dinner at the end of each episode.

What the atheists were objecting to wasn't so much the prayer per se, but that they always had to end it with the words "in Jesus' name. Having never seen the show at that time, I wasn't exactly sure what they were referring to. Some will view those as wholly appropriate, some will accept them as permissible if a bit overboard, and some will out-and-out reject them as frivolous trivializations of something far too venerated and holy to be demeaned by being twinned with a successful Jenny Craiging.

On the other hand, had ABC not elided the word, the network would likely have come under fire from a different — if not equally fervent — group of Christians who would have vehemently disagreed with what they would have seen as a slighting usage. Rather, they were trying to protect the holy name, which is quite a different kettle fish from the one Falwell is trying to stir.

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