While not mentioned in the article (The Baptist Courier, Oct. 5) regarding the double standard with NBC Universal’s censoring of biblical messages from VeggieTales, but planning to air an offensive Madonna concert in its entirety, the irony of this double standard came in the same week when Vivendi Universal, which owns 20 percent of the Peacock (General Electric owns the other 80 percent), announced plans to purchase the published music division of Bertelsmann AG. (The recorded music library of Bertelsmann is now a 50-50 joint venture with Sony.)

Two major Christian music brands are involved in Vivendi Universal’s purchase of Bertelsmann’s division — Brentwood and Benson, and also Careers-BMG Music. Many churches have purchased music from the Bertelsmann library for their worship services and for their choirs or modern worship teams.

The decision to censor VeggieTales while their minority partner purchases a music publishing house with Christian music publishing interest creates an interesting double standard that should be discussed, and churches should show serious concern about their libraries considering that they are using Universal Music for worship, but it is NBC Universal Television itself censoring VeggieTales.

Meanwhile, rival Sony has been consistent in using the Bible on their game shows, as I have noticed in two Sony shows, the GSN production “That’s the Question,” and the CBS King World syndicated “Jeopardy.”

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