Theological Reflections on ABC's "True Beauty"
I was intrigued by the premise of ABC’s True Beauty, a show that judged beauty from the inside-out. Imagine having an unseen camera scrutinize your behavior w/o you realizing it and judging your beauty based on who you are when (you think) nobody’s watching. I don’t think anybody can say they are always “beautiful”, least of all me. Which was why I was so tickled to observe how these contestants each attempted to justify themselves, that they were indeed beautiful persons deep down inside, when the camera tells otherwise. Hence the Christian faith. It breaks past this self-delusional image of beauty and in a brutally honest fashion says, “you know, we all are, deep down inside, not beautiful at all. In fact, we’re ugly.” It’s this realization that brings about the in-breaking of true beauty, and yet there was no such tacit admission on this program; but alas, what was I expecting?
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i was thinking about that as I watched the show. I wondered what if they did a pastor true beauty, and realized how ugly it would be if the camera followed me for a day. ugh. the world would hate me.