Vatican paper says ‘The Simpsons’ are okely dokely (AP)

VATICAN CITY – To place it as the sincere Ned Flanders would, the Vatican’s production thinks “The Simpsons” are an okely dokely bunch.

L’Osservatore Romano on weekday congratulated the exhibit on its 20th anniversary, praising its ideologic leanings as substantially as its hurting and ofttimes sacrilegious verify on religion.

Without Homer doc and the another yellow-skinned characters “many today wouldn’t undergo how to laugh,” said the article named “Aristotle’s Virtues and Homer’s Doughnut.”

The essay credited “The Simpsons” — the longest-running dweller enlivened information — with inaugural up cartoons to an grown audience.

The exhibit is supported on “realistic and nimble writing,” it said, though it additional there was whatever think to notice its “excessively vulgar language, the hostility of destined episodes or whatever extremity choices by the scriptwriters.”

Religion, from the snore-evoking sermons of the Rev. Lovejoy to Homer’s face-to-face talks with God, appears so ofttimes on the exhibit that it could be doable to become up with a “Simpsonian theology,” it said.

Homer’s churchlike fault and ignorance are “a mirror of the passivity and the requirement that recent Negro feels toward faith,” the essay said.

It commented on individual religion-themed episodes, including digit in which Homer calls for glorious participation by crying: “I’m not ordinarily a churchlike man, but if you’re up there, spend me, Superman!”

“Homer finds in God his terminal refuge, modify though he sometimes gets His study sensationally wrong,” L’Osservatore said. “But these are meet secondary mistakes, after all, the digit undergo apiece another well.”