Is it heartless, cold, un-American or un-Christian to dislike ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”? The Sunday night, spiritual reality show presents an entirely new home complete with appliances, furniture, and extra goodies (like spas and children’s playrooms) to one tragically afflicated family.

It’s hosted by the spastic, goateed Ty Pennington, a peripatetic 40 year old former model, who wears low hangin’ jeans and carries a bullhorn around the set. Hear him roar: “C’mon people! We only got twenty minutes to get this foundation poured!” He might suddenly run up to a startled fat woman, throw his lanky arms around her ample backside, and whisper, “You are an AMAZING woman! You deserve the best baby.” Grabbing her arm, he will drag the teary eyed lady through the doors of her new maison: ” Now come and look at your new SEARS dishwasher. Not only a Kenmore dishwasher, but a fully equipped Nautilus exercise gym, a 2006 Fleetwood Bounder RV, a Dell computer room, and a new Pergo flooring auditorium where you can sew quilts!”

No viewer can argue that the families, many of them hit by the worst tragedies of life, are deserving of some material comforts. But the corporate infomercial masquerading as Christian charity is nauseating. Sears, KB Homes, Ford Motor Company, Dell Computer, and countless others too numerous to mention, get a one hour advertisement and product placement in a TV program dressed up as a spiritual revival meeting. Tears, thank yous, gratitude…………..all delivered to ABC by the lucky victims at the end of the hour.

It’s enough to make you want to sit through two hours of “Sin City” again.