Or would Ned Flanders be a screaming partisan, a violent insurrectionist, a woman-ogling misogynist, or an abusive pervert? Would that change be because the secular world has grown more hostile to ...

There’s black metal, death metal — and even a subgenre inspired by Ned Flanders. Yes, Ned Flanders — the ultra-religious, clean-cut character on TV’s “The Simpsons,” known for his ...