Duck Dynasty features a number of things that run against the grain of popular culture. They’re a strong family that runs their own business, which is based on their patriarch’s invention. They go to church. They don’t engage marriages to pop stars. Their daughters aren’t famous for sex tapes or appearances in men’s magazines. They hunt. With guns.
They also pray, and according to two of the show’s stars, Phil and Willie Robertson, the prayers caused some problems with the producers.
When the producers of Duck Dynasty asked the stars to stop saying “in Jesus’ name” during prayers because it might offend Muslims, Phil Robertson stood his ground and gave an eye-opening response.
“So they would just have me saying, ‘Thank you Lord for the food, thank you for loving us. Amen.’ So I said, ‘Why would you cut out ‘In Jesus’ name?’ They said, ‘Well those editors are probably doing that. They just think that they don’t want to offend some of the Muslims or something.’”
Robertson says he had a conversation with the producers, and the objections to Jesus’ name stopped.
“I said, let’s see now…” Robertson went on, “I said, ‘what year is it?’” And the editor finally answered, “2012″ (the time the conversation took place, apparently).
Robertson then said, “2012 A.D. Anno Domini. The year of our Lord. I said, ‘you Hollywood cats are counting time from Jesus, just like I am. I would think that of all the people who walked the planet Earth, if we’ve all decided in America here to count time by just one of ‘em, Jesus of Galilee, I just don’t think it would hurt to throw his name in there from time to time.”
Phil may come off as Hayseed Treebeard, but he holds a Masters Degree in education. Don’t mess with the duckman.
I suspect that the aversion to Jesus’ name was less about Muslims, than about the media’s cultural aversion to all things explicitly Christian.
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I can not get into this show for more than a minute or two, but you do need to admire them.
The pres, is piece of muslin trash. I work with several co-workers that have acquired the Muslim faith. Most agree that he is a poor excuse for a Muslin.
The Prime Ministers was kidnapped thank to the idiot. How come the us wipe house controlled media has never touch is occurrence. It has flared resentment around the world
Since the Duck D’s ratings are so high, the network cannot really be concerned over losing a couple of viewers.
But every now and then a Muslim group decides to see if they can punch the buttons and get a little bit less Christianity in our culture.
I don’t know for a fact that THIS TIME that’s what happened, but it has happened before.
I wonder if there is another station which might pick of Duck Dynasty?
I love the “AD” argument…. and I’m at least an agnostic. 😉 The current pc nonsense of using CE and BCE really offends me. If they’re going to change the name of the time scale, they should change the reference point too… Maybe use a big solar eclipse, or the explosion of the crab supernova in 1054. It would have to be something astronomical, otherwise the whiners would be screaming “cultural bias!”
Hey, today every TV comes with a Remote Control AND of course, there is a little ‘channel’ button on the TV itself….you press the channel button on either the remote or TV then, as if by magic the channel changes…I say to the Jesus haters ….USE IT…then… stfu!!
Oh, by the way….aren’t televisions considered a false God or something like that in the Muslim world? Who exactly are these people who don’t like this ‘message’? The producers? Heck the show is good but, now wait a second here, perhaps it’s their “Divine Jesus” who is actually driving their ratings through the roof…divine intervention….so perhaps the producers should just stfu and be GRATEFUL and get off their folly!
Is the Duck Dynasty Family the ONLY people (plus their millions of viewers of course) who can ACTUALLY “SEE” the trees in the forest??
FAITH7
WELL SAID AND MORE POLITE THAN ME,
JUST TO HEAR ABOUT THEM TRYING TO ADVANCE THEIR AGENDA IS OFFENSIVE FOR MANY MORE PEOPLE THAN THEY KNOW,
SO YES STIFU TO THEM, WHAT THE FACT
ARE THEY DOING HERE ANYWAY, OBAMA LET THEM IN AND THEY START TO CAUSE TROUBLE
TO CHRISTIANS ALREADY, THEY DON’T BELONG IN THE WESTERN CIVILISATION,
@Nan G:
I don’t think this should be made into another anti-“Muslim thing”. The intolerance expressed here is typical liberal/atheistic/ACLU-driven BS. I know a number of (liberal) Jews who would support this.
I doubt many American Muslims lose sleep over this, unless they are influenced by the CAIR/Rainbow Push Coalition/ACLU/multiculturalist/diversity/PC-liberal beliefs about this country.
Kinda reminds me of that South Park episode with the nurse who has a conjoined fetus; and that one SP character’s PC-Jewish mom liberal do-gooder insists on what the nurse should be offended by, rather than allowing her to express her own views about her condition.
BTW…I have no idea what Duck Dynasty is.
Nor do I have enough interest to use my best friend, Google.