Gilmore Girls Examined

 

Gilmore Girls was a popular series on WB that followed a close relationship between a single mother named Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter Rory. The show was full of witty banter, small town charm (Stars Hollow!), and pop cultural references. The series is considered a classic, having been on Netflix for a long time along with its Netflix funded revival “A Year in The Life.” The show is full of melodrama and hilarious characters like Kirk who has a job everywhere in the small town of Star’s Hollow, the nosy and overzealous Taylor Doose who is Town Selectman and on every board of the town creating & enforcing rules, as well as intense Seventh Day Adventist antique dealer Mrs. Kim and her daughter, Lane, who hides her love of rock and roll beneath the floor boards. 

Gilmore Girls is full colorful antidotes and relational drama that will keep you coming back. The problem with the series is Amy-Sherman Palladino’s obvious antichrist bias. Aside from Mrs. Kim being a strict Korean Seventh Day Adventist handing out tracks of “sinner you will go to hell,” at Winter Festivals & Dances and her oppressing her daughter Lane with a heavy religious hand, the show has a myriad of mockeries of Christ and Christianity: there is The Festival of Living Pictures where Kirk goes method and plays Jesus and He gets in a fist fight with the Town Troubadour who is playing Judas Iscariot & Mrs. Patty yelling “disciples keep Christ and Judas apart!”, there is the missing arm of the Baby Jesus and dog chewing on it, there is episode after Lane is at party and Rory delivers her puke covered backpack to her at the church & Reverend Skinner has to hasten The Beatitudes and take down the giant Crucifix and say sorry to the Rabbi who puts up the Star of David and chants (the inference is to elevated Judaism and mock Christianity), When Star’s Hollow had Museum at Twikum House and in the tour of Star’s Hollow a little mannequin girl shouts “And I love Jesus!” (Its said in high pitch and meant to be a mockery) and Lorelei says “The I love Jesus girl is still giving her nightmares,” Dave Rygalski pretending to be a Christian and his friends Zack seeing him pretend to be a Christian to Mrs. Kim saying he couldn’t hide he is a Christian and mocking they won’t play Amy Grant and David saying “I didn’t know you would be so accepting of my [Christian] devotedness” in mocking tone, Dave reading the Bible in one night to understand Mrs. Kim’s quote to take Lane to Prom and Mrs Kim saying “That is a very difficult thing to do, reading the Bible in one night. I myself have only done it three times. You need great determination and excellent light”, there is Rory at Yale saying she is sick of Jesus and Mel Gibson, there is Finn’s mocking of the Passion of the Christ, Rory meeting her grandparent’s reverend who admonished her to not give up her “most precious gift of virtue/virginity,” the reverend is depicted in an unflattering light despite Rory causing adultery with Dean, and having affair with Logan in The Day In The Life Revival four parter which shows that she is in need of some virtue teaching, there is Star’s Hollow’s Fiddler on Roof play and the director tells how “Jesus Christ Superstar” was a mess in a mocking tone but of course Fiddler is done perfectly in the episode,  Lane’s Seventh Day Adventist College classmates who are retarded, and lisp, Zack makes fun of Luther’s A Mighty Fortress is Our God Hymn by saying its hard to understand i.e. “bulwark” & rewriting the lyrics “and the devil tries to hurt us,” The Church Bells being restored terrorizing the town of Stars Hollow with Lorelei uttering blasphemies in church as she and Luke Danes break the bells, Sookie’s kids Baptism has them mocking the line “do you renounce Satan and all his works” with Lorelei hesitating, and one person saying “Satan can kiss my a**!”, The hiding of Crucifixes and Christian articles in Mrs. Kim’s house during Lane’s wedding and placing buddhas up for a grandmother who doesn’t know Mrs. Kim is an Seventh Day Adventist & a Buddhist Wedding where Zack becomes obsessed with traditional buddhist wedding robe, when Hep Alien which is Lane and Zack’s band tour Seventh Day Adventist churches and venues and Gill talks about a pastor wanting to save his soul in mocking manner, Zack saying when he is chosen by a big band he is glad he doesn’t have to run lyrics by the church board, Mrs. Kim freaking Zack out about “him being doomed to Satan’s sludge and eaten by hell hounds,” Paris Geller saying she enjoyed debating the Birth of Christ at her boyfriend Jamie’s Christmas vacation, and looks forward to Easter to debate “Jesus Son of Carpenter or Son of God,” her tone being she is Jewish and mocking Jesus in those scenes, Paris Geller saying she feels sick because of “Bad Host” (Communion Wafer, Eucharist Mass, Christianity) as she works on Yale Daily News for The Religion Beat terrorizing rabbis, imams, and reverends, Paris observing Islamic Ramadan with reverence, and many other slights and mockeries of Christ and Christianity. There is also a lot of Satanic references like Dean meeting Rory saying “Rosemary’s Baby,” a film about Satan’s child is good, Lorelei saying to Rory “what’s that on your forehead, oh just the sign of the devil,” Digger asking Emily who looks so young, “so did you sell your soul to the devil?,” When Lorelei ditches marrying Max Madina and stays at Cheshire Cat, she writes in guest book an invocation of Satan, and in The Revival some Nuns saying “we would sell the place to Beezelbub himself if the price was right.” It is obvious Palladino has antichrist sympathies, and no wonder, her self picture shows necklaces with Kabbala / Kabbalah necklaces, Kabbala is witchcraft in Judaism that came from Egyptian Occult in 4-5th Centuries A.D. when Jews learned it in Egypt. Kabbala/ Kabbalah comes up in show a lot to, with one instance being when Kirk misplaced eggs for Easter Egg hunt and one of Jewish hunters had to leave for Kabbalah class. 

 

While the wit and pop culture references, as well as chemistry of the cast, especially Lauren Graham and Alexis Brindisi as Lorelei and Rory is incredible, the show is bold in its antichrist tropes and Satanic references. It is for this reason I cannot recommend the series, Amy-Sherman Palladino goes out of her way with her husband Daniel Palladino who also co-writes the show, to mock Christ and elevate Satan.  No matter the charm of Stars Hollow, the wit of the Gilmore Clan, or the intoxicating drama of Team Dean vs Team Jess and later Team Logan, the show’s common theme is to mock Christianity and make odd refs to Satan and movies of very demonic influence. While strict legalistic Christianity does exist and The Kims highlight this, its all the other displays and references against Christ that make the series an obvious tool of Kabbalah (Jewish Occult) and Satanism. So while the humor, warmth of the Star’s Hollow town, the cleaver and pithy refs to pop culture are great, Palladino shows she is a paladin (2. champion of a cause) of the false light of lucifer (2 Corinthians 11:14), not the Light of Christ (John 8:12). Amen.  

Addendum:

Interesting that Lorelei the name means in German “alluring enchantress” or “alluring temptress.” Lorelei and Rory (who’s name is really Lorelei after her mother) do enchant and tempt people. Max cannot resist Lorelai’s temptation and Luke Danes is enchanted by her, Dean is seduced by Rory, and Logan is some how enchanted into an affair with Rory when he is engaged to Odette. Lorelei in Hebrew does mean “God is my Teacher.” Sadly that definition never is illustrated in Gilmore Girls as Lorelei does not follow the teachings of the Lord but the whims of her arrested development and id psyche behavior.