Humanity has the greatest redemption story of all time: Jesus Christ paid for our sins by His sacrifice on the cross. The devil doesn’t want redemption he wants your destruction.There’s a real Satan, and the only thing he ever fathered was deception (John 8:44).Ĭan bad become good? Absolutely. These portrayals are more than sympathy for the devil-they’re redemptive.ĭo you think this is a coincidence, the surge of satanic forces through popular culture, the redefining of Satan’s identity, and the pack leader being the top influential brand for children? Do you think that because it’s fiction, it doesn’t have an influence on your beliefs? (Yes, you read that right.)Īnd now, in “Little Demon” Satan starts to “ he might actually want to be a father to Chrissy rather than just using her as a pawn in his schemes to gain cosmic power,” commented IGN’s review. In the recent live-action television series “ Lucifer,” the eponymous fallen angel selflessly sacrifices himself for the love of his life and is even seen worthy to become God. In Disney’s “ Wreck-It Ralph,” a rather genteel Satan is in a support group that helps its members to cope with perpetual persecution as the “bad guys” of video games. There have even been various iterations of the devil himself. In the entertainment industry, revisionist character arcs have been turning evil into heroic for quite some time-“Wicked,” “Maleficent,” “Cruella.” Two out of three of those are origin stories of Disney villains. Then, add in the emerging pattern of humanizing the villain. When asked about her character during a Comic-Con panel, Aubrey Plaza, who voices Chrissy’s mother, Laura Feinberg, responded, “I love that we are normalizing paganism. As One Million Moms noticed, there is a plethora of “Disney-associated productions … set in a spiritually demonic realm”-and “Little Demon” is no exception. We see this in stores, on social media, and most definitely in film and television. Next, the occult has been flooding popular culture. But what happens when “ a family focused product” cemented into the hearts and dreams of the American family begins supplying not-safe-for-work lessons on murder, sex, and the devil? This is relatively novel for a nation that has, to some extent, allowed cartoons to raise their children and has furthermore vaulted the Walt Disney Company into becoming the pinnacle of childhood idolization. First, America is experiencing a “ booming trend of adult animated series,” no doubt made possible by such trailblazers as “The Simpsons,” “Family Guy,” and the entire lineup of Adult Swim. Nonprofit Christian group One Million Moms is circling a petition-which at the time of this writing has 47,813 signers-to take the show off the air. Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, posted a diatribe on Facebook after catching the trailer while watching a college football game: “I couldn’t get to the remote fast enough to shield my 11-year-old from the preview,” he wrote. “Little Demon,” however, has its detractors too. Rated TV-MA for its rampant nudity, profanity, graphic violence, and innuendo, the series is being lauded as “a surprisingly sweet coming-of-age story wrapped in gore,” “a hellscape of sick and twisted fun,” and “a nasty art form.” “I know what you’re thinking, is he a dad or just a cool friend?” quips a caption on the show’s FXX homepage. On top of it all, she’s caught in the middle of the world’s most epic custody battle: her tattoo-bearing, demon-slaying mom versus the archdeceiver himself, donning his best Mr. Just ask Chrissy Feinberg, the titular character on the new animated television series “Little Demon,” which currently airs on Disney-owned platforms FXX Hulu and, starting in late September, on Disney+ itself in Australia and New Zealand.īetween discovering that she’s the Antichrist and starting a new school, Chrissy has her hands full. It’s hard to be a normal seventh grader when your dad is Satan.
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