Moral discrepancies are found all through The Walking Dead. So being the church in most every episode will present itself with problems of its own. Being a Christian in this situation may be even tougher. It’s a lot easier to stand up for a group in the name of the lord, but as a Christian you would face both internal and external moral issues that test your relationship with the lord.
Seeing as I chose to use the barn episode in the last blog, I will write once more about that episode. With it being easy for the reader to refer back to other ideas or scenes in previous posts. It also makes it easy for you the reader to re-hash ideas and personal thoughts to specific instances without having to re watch an entire episode. And the barn dilemma episode isn’t a quiet episode when looking at moral decisions for a Christian and the Church as a whole. There are many red flags that are seen from miles away that can be dissected. I think the first, most appropriate question would be to ask “as a Christian is it okay to kill a zombie?” Personally as a Christian I would believe that it is morally acceptable. Although they are Gods creations, they also have been altered by man. And bottom line… they WILL eat you. So my train of thought sounds like “If this zombie kills me, I won’t be able to witness to non-believers about the lord. And if I just let him go I will give him the chance to take a life that hadn’t been saved. So I would elect, painstakingly, to kill every zombie in my path as a Christian.
One of the issues the church would run into in this specific episode as opposed to generally throughout the seasons would be how to handle worshipers stress and hard questions that go along with going behind someone’s back, killing, and deceiving. The church would have to assess the situation that Rick was put into. Which was either go behind Herschel’s back and kill the zombies or not, and trying to convince or beg for permission to stay at the farm. The church should advise Rick not to go behind Herschel’s back and kill the barn walkers without him knowing. Instead, with the above Christian moral standpoint on zombies in affect they should advise him unorthodoxly. The church should convince Rick that staying on the farm is important, but still carrying out your mission as a Christian. The church should tell Rick that he needs to kill the zombies. Even though it would be against Herschel’s requests, it would be best for the ever dwindling Christian community. Either that, or leave the farm to continue to spread the word of Gad to other humans you encounter. The church would further advise Rick to push to witness to Shane and his troubled persona. He is a very strong piece of his group and at the very least, a human and son of God.
John Clark
Seeing as I chose to use the barn episode in the last blog, I will write once more about that episode. With it being easy for the reader to refer back to other ideas or scenes in previous posts. It also makes it easy for you the reader to re-hash ideas and personal thoughts to specific instances without having to re watch an entire episode. And the barn dilemma episode isn’t a quiet episode when looking at moral decisions for a Christian and the Church as a whole. There are many red flags that are seen from miles away that can be dissected. I think the first, most appropriate question would be to ask “as a Christian is it okay to kill a zombie?” Personally as a Christian I would believe that it is morally acceptable. Although they are Gods creations, they also have been altered by man. And bottom line… they WILL eat you. So my train of thought sounds like “If this zombie kills me, I won’t be able to witness to non-believers about the lord. And if I just let him go I will give him the chance to take a life that hadn’t been saved. So I would elect, painstakingly, to kill every zombie in my path as a Christian.
One of the issues the church would run into in this specific episode as opposed to generally throughout the seasons would be how to handle worshipers stress and hard questions that go along with going behind someone’s back, killing, and deceiving. The church would have to assess the situation that Rick was put into. Which was either go behind Herschel’s back and kill the zombies or not, and trying to convince or beg for permission to stay at the farm. The church should advise Rick not to go behind Herschel’s back and kill the barn walkers without him knowing. Instead, with the above Christian moral standpoint on zombies in affect they should advise him unorthodoxly. The church should convince Rick that staying on the farm is important, but still carrying out your mission as a Christian. The church should tell Rick that he needs to kill the zombies. Even though it would be against Herschel’s requests, it would be best for the ever dwindling Christian community. Either that, or leave the farm to continue to spread the word of Gad to other humans you encounter. The church would further advise Rick to push to witness to Shane and his troubled persona. He is a very strong piece of his group and at the very least, a human and son of God.
John Clark