Mr. Rogers Would Like A Word
Created on: May 18th, 2007
I'm not made of stone, people.
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Mr. Rogers was good people. He talked to children about things that are important to children, and what mattered to them, and the things that frightened them but couldn't talk to their parents about. He was very religious, but he didn't slap it in your face like so many other people do in today's day and age. He was content with just letting you, be you, no matter be it atheist, agnostic, or religious.
Dude, lashiens, you're totally right. He really is what everyone should want to be like. His beliefs were a personal thing for him, and he didn't use his faith to hate any groups or people or any sh*t like that. He accepted other people's beliefs and opinions while expressing his own in a respectful way. There are so many Atheists who say if everyone was Atheist we wouldn't have so much conflict in the world, and that's not what we should try to be. What Mr. Rogers was is what we should try to become.
Esquire Magazine once ran a story on him that I thought captured his unexplainable appeal perfectly. It seems that Mr Rogers wanted to meet Koko, the gorilla who was taught to communicate using Sign Language. ---Koko had often watched Mister Rogers on television. When they first encountered each other, the 280-pound gorilla instantly enfolded Fred Rogers, all 143 pounds of him, in a massive embrace.
And then .... Koko sat him down & took off his shoes.
The first time I met Mister Rogers, he told me a story of how deeply his simple gestures had been felt, and received. He had just come back from visiting Koko, the gorilla who ...has been taught American Sign Language. Koko watches television. Koko watches Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and when Mister Rogers, in his sweater and sneakers, entered the place where she lives, Koko immediately folded him in her long, black arms, as though he were a child, and then … "She took my shoes off, Tom,"Mister Rogers said.
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