Judge Parker Comic Strip Teaches Decency and Moral Principles
Judge Parker Comic Strip Grounded In Spiritual Values
Several months ago, I began to notice the Judge Parker comic strip. I don’t know just what caught my eye. It may have been a few written words that reflected a decency that is so often missing in modern culture. Perhaps it was a certain graphic motion that implied a right response to a bad situation. Maybe it was God that set my focus on that well drawn comic script that occupies the bottom panels in our local paper.
I like to read the comics. That makes me an open door to the likes of the Judge Parker Comic Strip. Many modern comics are crafted in a crude and distasteful format that lacks social merit. This I avoid. Others, tend to be long-running, adventure-centered political soap boxes. These too I avoid. Then there are those such as the Parker strip that provide a clean and gentle relief from daily stress. Such decent comic content bring forth a pleasant break from the busy workday and the crowded evening hours. They present humor related snapshots into brief moments of the average life. Judge Parker, and a similar script called Rex Morgan, is a morally guided adventure tale penned by longtime writer Woody Wilson. I only recently can to know of him.
Judge Parker Comic Strip by Woody Wilson
Regardless of which story-line moved me to take an interest in the Parker comics, I began to read the Judge on a daily basis. I watched as the main characters responded to various trials and temptations with what seemed a true Christian attitude. They established high standards, and they lived by them. Rather than sprouting bulling words, Mr. Wilson’s characters motivate the responses of other characters through kind but measured actions.
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I began to develop a great respect for Woody Wilson as the mind and the writer behind the Judge Parker comic script. This man, I thought, surely knows the God of creation. Thus I set in my heart to write this article. Yet I was restrained. From within me, arose the voice of the Holy Spirit. “This writer,” He said, “you do not know that he is Christian. Morals are no assurance of Christian faith”.
Although the voice was correct, possession of sound morals do not make a Christian. I wrote Mr. Wilson a letter. I told him of how much I enjoyed his scripts, and of how good it was to see someone live in the world without behaving as does the world. Then I asked if he was a Christian.
Now since I failed to gain permission to use Mr. Wilson’s exact words, and due to the fact that I do not wish to over burden him with emails, I will not quote his exact response. He told me that he was not a Christian. He said that he was raised to believe in the “Golden Rule”. Thus his comic strips reflect the nature of that faith. His email response to me was very pleasant.
Judge Parker Comic Strip, a Reflection of the “Golden Rule”
All religions embrace the golden rule. It is the concept of placing oneself into the footprints of another so as to respond to their needs and concerns just as we would for our own needs and concerns. It is a rule that reflects the essence of fair play.
I respect the work of Mr. Woody Wilson. His characters are crafted to teach what many chose to ignore, and what many sometimes even chose to deliberately destroy. In the terms of men, and in the measure of a well mannered society, Mr. Woody Wilson does a great work.
I wrote him a second email. I thanked him for responding honestly to my letter. I also let him know that good works are not the equivalent to having gained saving grace. In every man, the good is tainted by pride, the “Golden Rule” is twisted by selfish view points, and the truth is always hampered by personal wants. I opened a door for Mr. Wilson that he may one day seek to know Jesus. For this purpose, I make myself available. But it matters not who waters the seed, but merely that the seed take a root and grow. I pray our God send yet another Christian voice into the life of this kind man.
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I praise Mr. Wilson for the work that he does. In a world that is shrouded in confusion, the Judge Parker comic strip teaches moral principles, decency and a way that men can practice the “Golden Rule.” How much greater could be those truths if the author came to know the Jesus of scripture? Let us pray to that effect.
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