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Thousands petition Netflix to cancel Amazon Prime's Good Omens

Sadly this isn't the Onion or Babylon Bee I enjoyed both the book and TV adaptation. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/20/petition-netflix-cancel-amazon-prime-good-omens-christian-neil-gaiman-terry-pratchett? Thousands petition Netflix to cancel Amazon Prime's Good Omens US Christian group condemns Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s story as ‘making satanism appear normal’ – but petition wrong company More than 20,000 Christians have signed a petition calling for the cancellation of Good Omens, the television series adapted from Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 fantasy novel – unfortunately addressing their petition to Netflix when the series is made by Amazon Prime. The six-part series was released last month, starring David Tennant as the demon Crowley and Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale, who collaborate to prevent the coming of the antichrist and an imminent apocalypse. Pratchett’s last request to Gaiman before he died was that he adapt the novel they wrote together; Gaiman wrote the screenplay andworked as showrunner on the BBC/Amazon co-production, which the Radio Times called “a devilishly funny love letter to the book”. But Christians marshalled by the Return to Order campaign, an offshoot of the US Foundation for a Christian Civilisation, disagree. More than 20,000 supporters have signed a petition in which they say that Good Omens is “another step to make satanism appear normal, light and acceptable”, and “mocks God’s wisdom”. God, they complain, is “voiced by a woman” – Frances McDormand – the antichrist is a “normal kid” and, most importantly, “this type of video makes light of Truth, Error, Good and Evil, and destroys the barriers of horror that society still has for the devil”. They are calling on Netflix to cancel the show. Gaiman responded to the petition on Twitter, writing: “I love that they are going to write to Netflix to try and get #GoodOmens cancelled. Says it all really. This is so beautiful ... Promise me you won’t tell them?” The publisher and science fiction critic Cheryl Morgan tweeted: “Miraculously God has already done it. Don’t tell them She put it on Amazon instead.” Return to Order is based on the writings of the author John Horvat II. It “calls upon Americans to put principles into actions by working toward what is called an organic Christian society”. Another of its petitions in April called on Walmart to “stop selling Satanic products” following a 2018 protest against a “blasphemous ice cream chain called Sweet Jesus”.
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  • L O L https://mobile.twitter.com/NetflixUK/status/1141787587390201862?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1141787587390201862&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themarysue.com%2Fnetflix-cancel-good-omens-amazon-fires-back-lol%2F [quote] Netflix UK & Ireland @NetflixUK ok we promise not to make any more Quote Tweet The Guardian @guardian · Jun 20 Thousands petition Netflix to cancel Amazon Prime's Good Omens (link: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/20/petition-netflix-cancel-amazon-prime-good-omens-christian-neil-gaiman-terry-pratchett?CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1561027489) theguardian.com/books/2019/jun… [/quote]

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    • You can pry that show/book from my cold dead hands

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    • Edited by Disciple4Christ4: 6/21/2019 6:51:33 PM
      .... so people are outraged against this.. but didn’t say anything about that lucifer show that came out a while ago? Or that Sabrina the witch crap?!

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      • Ironic that the same people who harp on about freedom of religion are so intolerant of anyone else’s beliefs.

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        • It just looks stupid and cheesy to me. If it’s a show that genuinely entices people to worship satan and crap like that, then it’s an issue. Janky tv shows aren’t usually cultist propaganda

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          • Authoritarian moral busy-bodies are pretty hilarious when people aren't bending the knee to them.

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          • I remember when a bunch of people were demanding that Harry Potter books be restricted to adult readers only, or out right banned. I pains me to say that I, who knew nothing about it at all, kept my son from reading the first book, but later had him tell me that he had read it and what it was about. I then saw the movies with him and am almost as much of a Potter nerd as I am Star Wars. From the ads I've seen on this show, it looks no worse than a multitude of other shows on tv anymore, let alone movies. These people can boycott if they wish, but c'mon. At least see it before demanding it being banned. Better yet, just shut up. They make everyone affiliated look bad just because of association by name.

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            • I've loved Neil Gaiman since the Sandman comics. So good to see he's still pissing off stupid religious radicals. On a side note, Coraline is my daughter's favorite movie btw. I'm such a proud dad.

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            • What God allows to happen will happen.

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            • Such -blam!-ing bullshit Buuuullllllllshhhiiiitt

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            • Seems normal

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            • MRW

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            • ... As I've said many times, everything should be made fun of, these people are f[i]u[/i]cking stupid... [spoiler]not included in the DLC[/spoiler]

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            • The Left Behind series was about stalling the works of the Anti-Christ... it’s almost the same goal for the protagonists in Good Omens... I don’t see the consistency of the backlash, though I haven’t watched the show yet.

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            • Sounds about right.

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