We need the book of common prayer

So the idiots in Hollywood would have a reference for when they write wedding ceremonies.

Why do they always have to mess it up?

8 thoughts on “We need the book of common prayer”

  1. Are they messing up, or are they just reflecting the fact that there’s no accepted form anymore except in specific church traditions, which are not the intended settings of the weddings being portrayed?

    1. There are some accepted forms, although there certainly is a trend to just wing things and make stuff up. But my experience (with just about every movie or TV show with a marriage scene) is what they write is almost unbelievably awful.

      1. I’ve noticed a tendency for everyone in TV to write their own vows, even if it doesn’t really feel like something the characters would do. I figured it was so that they can have jokes and callbacks and the like.

      2. That’s my point, though. They’re portraying it as people just winging it, so having a standard form for them to follow wouldn’t make it better, because that’s not what they’re trying to do anyway. They’re trying to show that modern people write their own vows (which probably happens a lot more on the screen than in real life, but it’s ALWAYS the nature of Hollywood to exaggerate cultural trends) so pretty much anything goes. Having a form for them to follow is beside the point. They don’t want a guide, they want to make it up.

        1. Yes, that’s probably right. Perhaps there’s a silver lining. These “made up” ceremonies are so awful, it might cause people to move back towards serious words written by people who know something.

    1. I don’t know if Christianity needs to be put together again, because you could say that it exists irrespective of all the silliness — just as you could say that Plato’s philosophy exists no matter how badly it’s understood.

      I think your comment would make more sense if you replaced Christianity with Christendom.

      But somewhat along these lines, Pigweed and I did a show in which we compared Jordan Peterson and Martin Luther, and I speculated that Peterson might create some sort of new synthesis between Christianity and evolutionary psychology.

      1. I suppose that you could say that Plato’s philosophy will exist timelessly in the Platonic world of Ideas (or Forms), whether or not anyone comes out of the cave and sees the sun. Christianity, however, very much needs to make contact with the human heart. That is in its nature. Some may expect great things from Peterson as a luminary, but I strictly belong to the school of “just say No to whack jobs.”

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