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This is another favorite episode, it's a very thoughtful one at that as it parodies/satires on the concept of religion, church and state, but also how certain ideals of it can easily be taken too far and misguided in its goals, but also that simply religion doesn't have all the answers we seek.
It's really absurdist fun just on the whole possibility they can create a whole religion based on a vegetable and how far they went with it; however, I actually wouldn't rule out the playability of it, as it sort of makes you think about how other religions have come about, let along so called one's like Scientology. But the other plausible aspect is we see how their government is putting their dirty hands in this new faith and as we see are unfortunately cashing in on everyone's beliefs all except Robbie.
This is another really good episode with Robbie, Robbie despite a teen really can be wise beyond his years. He really has the right idea I really like how throughout the episode he's stating how everyone is just expecting and looking for easy answers from an unreliable source. And he right because life doesn't work that way, there are no such things as easy answers (at least not all the time), and most answers are still out there waiting for us to seek them out.
There are some fun moments like seeing the family watch a broadcast on Potatoism, and a person whom a government official is answering questions obviously for their organization to benefit themselves; really like what Baby says, "I'm sick of potatoes." Yeah at that point I would be too. And we of course see things take an extreme turn as Robbie is being burned for being a heretic, I thought it was a genuine almost touching moment when Earl he looks into the book of Potatoism but can find nothing out of Robbie's dilemma and he realizes Robbie is right, though sadly Earl then is tied with Robbie to be burned as a heretic.
There is a sense of grim truth to this as this is something that is still going on today, not in the sense that non-believers are going to be burned the stake, but are actually looked down upon and attacked with slander and ridicule without opening their mind to the simple possibility they could be on to some truth or just simple that their people that have their own set of beliefs.
Don't just seek answers in whichever faith you're in, seek them in other places but in the most important place of all, within yourself.
Rating: 4 stars
This is another favorite episode, it's a very thoughtful one at that as it parodies/satires on the concept of religion, church and state, but also how certain ideals of it can easily be taken too far and misguided in its goals, but also that simply religion doesn't have all the answers we seek.
It's really absurdist fun just on the whole possibility they can create a whole religion based on a vegetable and how far they went with it; however, I actually wouldn't rule out the playability of it, as it sort of makes you think about how other religions have come about, let along so called one's like Scientology. But the other plausible aspect is we see how their government is putting their dirty hands in this new faith and as we see are unfortunately cashing in on everyone's beliefs all except Robbie.
This is another really good episode with Robbie, Robbie despite a teen really can be wise beyond his years. He really has the right idea I really like how throughout the episode he's stating how everyone is just expecting and looking for easy answers from an unreliable source. And he right because life doesn't work that way, there are no such things as easy answers (at least not all the time), and most answers are still out there waiting for us to seek them out.
There are some fun moments like seeing the family watch a broadcast on Potatoism, and a person whom a government official is answering questions obviously for their organization to benefit themselves; really like what Baby says, "I'm sick of potatoes." Yeah at that point I would be too. And we of course see things take an extreme turn as Robbie is being burned for being a heretic, I thought it was a genuine almost touching moment when Earl he looks into the book of Potatoism but can find nothing out of Robbie's dilemma and he realizes Robbie is right, though sadly Earl then is tied with Robbie to be burned as a heretic.
There is a sense of grim truth to this as this is something that is still going on today, not in the sense that non-believers are going to be burned the stake, but are actually looked down upon and attacked with slander and ridicule without opening their mind to the simple possibility they could be on to some truth or just simple that their people that have their own set of beliefs.
Don't just seek answers in whichever faith you're in, seek them in other places but in the most important place of all, within yourself.
Rating: 4 stars
