A mutual fund management firm that helps investors avoid placing their funds in support of objectionable moral causes, says a recent broadcast of Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program displays why the Timothy Plan Mutual Fund Group needs to exist -- and why every Christian should make sure none of their investment dollars support Viacom, owner of Comedy Central.
The Timothy Plan avoids investing in companies that profit from abortion, pornography, anti-family, or unbiblical values in any venture. According to the company's website, it employs specific "moral screening criteria" that are designed to avoid investing shareholders' money in any company that displays "a pattern of contributing to the cultural degradation" of society.
A March episode of Sarah Silverman that portrayed the main character in a skit having sex with God caught the attention -- and drew the ire -- of the investment group. Fund president Arthur Ally says the content of that episode was "so far beyond the pale" that he and his organization felt they needed to send out a press release exposing it and the typical anti-Christian programming of Viacom media that he says no Christian should be supporting.
In that press release, Ally says the depiction of the show's main character having sex with God "brings Viacom's anti-Christian vitriol to an all-time low." Christians and culturally conservative Americans alike, he adds, should be "appalled by the sheer blatancy of this heresy."
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