Been thinking a lot about why VeggieTales is so unironically good when so much Christian media just completely sucks and what makes VT different, and honestly I think it boils down to the fact that VT is focused SO much less on evangelizing or spreading fear. There aren't any VeggieTales episodes telling kids to go convert their friends or they'll go to hell– I don't think they ever mention or imply hell at all. (Note that I stopped watching around, like, the early 2010s, when the og creator left and the specials started to suck.) The general idea of the morality tales isn't "sin is bad because it makes God hate you and send you to hell," it's "sin is bad because it hurts yourself or others and that makes God sad because he loves you and wants you to be happy." It's "spread God's love" not to convert everyone and make them go to Church, but because it's just the right thing to do to be nice to people. I think the only special that maybe got close to being evangelical was Easter Carol with the "if the church wasn't here this place would suck," but to be completely fair it was a Christmas Carol adaptation and you have to pull a Bad Future outta somewhere, and that ep was also very focused on focusing on the actual message of Easter and how it should inspire you to be kind instead of prideful.
I think what makes VeggieTales better than so much other Christian media is that it's so much more focused on the love than rules or threats. It was made by people who just wanted to make something within their belief system and entertain children, and not in order to force people into their ideals. And also they wanted to have the talking Veggies sing about grammar and hairbrushes and joke about the IRS and we all sat there, six years old, going "yes sir Mr Tomato whatever you say Mr Tomato"
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