Betty Bowers

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Bible-based marriage is between one man and his sister[1] and the help[2]… Goodness me, Lord, the help? Doing the help?? I don't even speak to mine!
—America's Best Christian explaining Biblical marriage[3]

Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian is a satirical character portrayed by Canadian comedian Deven GreenWikipedia and conceived by Andrew Bradley.[4] Especially since her YouTube debut in 2008,[5] she has become quite influential on the internet, and has received overwhelmingly positive feedback.[6] As well as her YouTube channel, Bowers has featured in her own TV show, Betty Bowers: America's Best Christian, which ran from 2008 to 2013 and featured Green as Bowers, as well as her husband Joel Bryant as Jesus.[7] She is also an important member of the Landover Baptist Church and its most reliable financial supporter.[8]

Bowers is a haughty, prim, conservative American church lady who lampoons and deconstructs many aspects of modern American Christianity . Her mannerisms, exaggerated diction and withering admonishments have been quite a turn-on for some of her fans, who have expressed a desire for her to "punish" them.[9]

Her video, "Betty Bowers Explains Traditional Marriage to Everyone Else", skewers the phrase "traditional marriage" through Bible-drawn examples of incest, polygamy, child brides, rapist marriages, etc.[3][9] Other targets of her satire include (but are not limited to) Sarah Palin,[5] the GOP,[10] religious anti-abortion arguments,[11] the War on Christmas,[12] the Westboro Baptist Church,[13] The United States as a Christian nation,[14] Vladimir Putin,[15] prayer,[16] religious freedom,[17] Donald Trump,[18][19] guns and the NRA,[20][21] patriotism[22][23] and political snarl words.[24] She also made a comedic remix of two homophobes having hilarious breakdowns over same-sex marriage.[25]

Many of Betty's opinions and pieces of advice were published in the form of a book, What Would Jesus Betty Do?, in 2002.[26] In an interview, Bowers explains that the book "picks up where the two previous testaments that the Lord scribbled left off — only mine, of course, in a radical departure from the Lord's literary efforts, actually makes sense, tries to be consistent and has a central character who wears expensive shoes."[27]

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  1. Genesis 20:12
  2. Genesis 16:3
  3. 3.0 3.1 Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Betty Bowers Explains Traditional Marriage to Everyone Else". YouTube.
  4. "Betty Bowers: America's Best Christian (2008)". Internet Movie Database. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Sarah Palin Debates America's Best Christian". YouTube.
  6. Condran, Ed (June 22, 2015). "Comic-Musician Deven Green Bringing Lounge Act To Twain House". Hartford Courant. 
  7. "Betty Bowers: America's Best Christian". Internet Movie Database. 
  8. "Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian™". Landover Baptist Church. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 Coviello, Will (November 6, 2017). "Deven Green and Varla Jean Merman perform at Cafe Istanbul Nov. 9-10". Gambit Weekly. 
  10. Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Join the Party!". YouTube.
  11. Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Betty Bowers Explains Abortion to Everyone Else". YouTube.
  12. Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "The War on Christmas". YouTube.
  13. Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Calling (Out) Westboro Baptist Church". YouTube.
  14. Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "America as a Christian Nation". YouTube.
  15. Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Calling Out Vladimir Putin On Gay Olympics". YouTube.
  16. Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "The DOs and DON'Ts of PRAYER". YouTube."
  17. Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Betty Explains Religious Freedom". YouTube.
  18. Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Trumping Trump". YouTube.
  19. Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "America's Pharisees For Trump". YouTube.
  20. Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "The Gun Industry's Killing in Killing". YouTube.
  21. Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "GUNS: Both Sides Now". YouTube.
  22. Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Are You a Patriot?". YouTube.
  23. Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "10 Things About Patriotism". YouTube.
  24. Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "Speak English? YOU FIRST!". YouTube.
  25. Peeples, Jase (July 4, 2015). "Christian Woman Records Herself Losing it Over Marriage Equality, Gets Remixed". The Advocate. 
  26. Bradley, Paul. "What Would Betty Do?: How to Succeed at the Expense of Others in this World-and the Next". Amazon.
  27. Sawyer, Diane (March, 2002). "In Surprise Gesture, God Damns ABC's Diane Sawyer Straight To Hell!". Landover Baptist Church.