Betty Bowers

[[File:2015 Deven 041.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Deven Green in 2015]]
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{{cquote|[[Bible]]-based [[marriage]] is between one man and [[Incest|his sister]]<ref>Genesis 20:12</ref> and [[Slavery in the Bible|the help]]<ref>Genesis 16:3</ref>… Goodness me, Lord, the help? ''[[Sex|Doing]]'' the ''help''?? I don't even speak to mine!|||America's Best Christian explaining Biblical marriage<ref name=marriage>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkeKKszXTw Betty Bowers Explains Traditional Marriage to Everyone Else]". YouTube.</ref>}}
'''Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian''' is a satirical character portrayed by [[Canada|Canadian]] comedian {{wpl|Deven Green}} and conceived by Andrew Bradley.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571397/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_11|title=Betty Bowers: America's Best Christian (2008)|work=Internet Movie Database}}</ref> Especially since her [[YouTube]] debut in 2008,<ref name=sp>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtJ6nPxv018 Sarah Palin Debates America's Best Christian]". YouTube.</ref> she has become quite influential on the internet, and has received overwhelmingly positive feedback.<ref>{{cite web| first =Ed| last =Condran| title =Comic-Musician Deven Green Bringing Lounge Act To Twain House|work =Hartford Courant| date =June 22, 2015| url =http://www.courant.com/entertainment/music/hc-deven-green-at-mark-twain-house-20150623-story.html|}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1710290/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_7|title=Betty Bowers: America's Best Christian|work=Internet Movie Database}}</ref> She is also an important member of the [[Landover Baptist Church]] and its most reliable financial supporter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.landoverbaptist.org/thestaff/ladies/bowers.html|title=Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian™|work=[[Landover Baptist Church]]}}</ref>
 
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.<ref name=gambit>{{cite web|url=https://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/devon-green-and-varla-jean-merman-perform-at-cafe-istanbul-nov-9-10/Content?oid=7848586|work=Gambit Weekly|title=Deven Green and Varla Jean Merman perform at Cafe Istanbul Nov. 9-10 |last=Coviello|first=Will||date=November 6, 2017}}</ref>

Her video, "Betty Bowers Explains Traditional Marriage to Everyone Else", skewers the phrase "[[traditional marriage]]" through [[Bible]]-drawn examples of [[incest]], [[polygamy]], child brides, [[Marital rape|rapist marriages]], etc.<ref name=marriage/><ref name=gambit/> Other targets of her [[satire]] include (but are not limited to) [[Sarah Palin]],<ref name=sp/> the [[GOP]],<ref>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMp98aM-Svg Join the Party!]". YouTube.</ref> religious [[Pro-life|anti-abortion arguments]],<ref>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq3U09DeKpg Betty Bowers Explains Abortion to Everyone Else]". YouTube.</ref> the [[War on Christmas]],<ref>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVok167KJPw The War on Christmas]". YouTube.</ref> the [[Westboro Baptist Church]],<ref>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpeGoWMOCNk Calling (Out) Westboro Baptist Church]". YouTube.</ref> [[The United States as a Christian nation]],<ref>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxKA4JBesB4 America as a Christian Nation]". YouTube.</ref> [[Vladimir Putin]],<ref>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUp5jQmbeBE Calling Out Vladimir Putin On Gay Olympics]". YouTube.</ref> [[prayer]],<ref>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bryQVxS9xFA The DOs and DON'Ts of PRAYER]". YouTube."</ref> [[religious freedom]],<ref>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1pYoZh5P4w Betty Explains Religious Freedom]". YouTube.</ref> [[Donald Trump]],<ref>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul5vL1xDQeA Trumping Trump]". YouTube.</ref><ref>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6lqbd_f9k8 America's Pharisees For Trump]". YouTube.</ref> [[gun]]s and the [[NRA]],<ref>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmWAFz7LjKs The Gun Industry's Killing in Killing]". YouTube.</ref><ref>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR9NHjDi4EA GUNS: Both Sides Now]". YouTube.</ref> [[patriotism]]<ref>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xV8HHFtg7w Are You a Patriot?]". YouTube.</ref><ref>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTfWdljzeNw 10 Things About Patriotism]". YouTube.</ref> and political [[snarl word]]s.<ref>Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian. "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=babB7_WJZQw Speak English? YOU FIRST!]". YouTube.</ref> She also made a comedic remix of two [[homophobes]] having hilarious breakdowns over [[same-sex marriage]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Peeples |first=Jase |title=Christian Woman Records Herself Losing it Over Marriage Equality, Gets Remixed |url=http://www.advocate.com/comedy/2015/07/04/christian-woman-records-herself-losing-it-over-marriage-equality-gets-remixed |work=The Advocate|date=July 4, 2015|}}</ref>

Many of Betty's opinions and pieces of advice were published in the form of a book, ''What Would 
Jesus
 Betty Do?'', in 2002.<ref>Bradley, Paul. "[https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743216016/landoverbaptist What Would Betty Do?: How to Succeed at the Expense of Others in this World-and the Next]". Amazon.</ref> In an interview, Bowers explains that the book "picks up where the [[Bible|two previous testaments that the Lord scribbled]] left off — only mine, of course, in a radical departure from the Lord's literary efforts, actually [[Biblical scientific errors|makes sense]], tries to [[Biblical contradictions|be consistent]] and has a central character who wears expensive shoes."<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Landover Baptist Church]]|url=http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0302/bettyinterview.html|title=In Surprise Gesture, God Damns ABC's Diane Sawyer Straight To Hell! |last=Sawyer|first=Diane|date=March, 2002}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Landover Baptist Church]]

==External links==
*[http://www.bettybowers.com/ Bowers' website]
*[https://www.youtube.com/user/MrsBettyBowers Bowers' YouTube channel]
*[https://twitter.com/BettyBowers Mrs. Betty Bowers] on [[Twitter]]

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