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Thousands Of Angry Christians Want Netflix To Cancel ‘Good Omens’ — Which Isn’t Even On Netflix

The petition hit over 20,000 signatures.

by Joseph Earp  21 June 2019
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Good Omens, a new miniseries based on the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, is about an angel and a demon who must work together in order to avert the apocalypse. It is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Remember that last part, cause we’ll come back to it later.

There’s nothing actually particularly heretical about Good Omens.

Sure, it’s stuffed entirely with supernatural, Judeo-Christian entities, and sure both God and an array of demons feature. But the thesis of the book and the miniseries is about these two halves complimenting one another. It doesn’t promote evil as much as it outlines evil as a natural and equal reaction to good, and it spends a lot of time subtly explaining how moral systems must by their very nature be made up of binaries.

But, tell that to almost 20,000 angry Christians, who, as The Guardian are reporting, have decided that the miniseries is “another step to make satanism appear normal, light and acceptable.”

These angry zealots are particularly annoyed that Good Omens “mocks God’s wisdom”, while making light of “Good and Evil.” Which for the record, it totally doesn’t — the show is, as we have already outlined, very serious about the nature of morality.

Anyway, because these Christians have no grasp of subtext, they’ve decided to start a petition to have the show cancelled, calling on Netflix to honour their religious freedoms and cancel a comedy miniseries. And here’s where we refer back to the first paragraph of this story, because Good Omens isn’t actually on Netflix — it’s on Amazon Prime Video.

So yeah, a lot of angry Christians are banging on the door of the wrong streaming service, demanding that something which shouldn’t be cancelled gets cancelled.

Sadly, the petition seems to have been pulled down — it’s now a dead link, with zero signatures. But hey, at least we got this all-time great reply out of it, which was even approved by Gaiman himself:

And, not ones to miss out on the fun, Amazon have got involved too.

Amen to that.