Who else's values would you suggest he teach his kids? 
Posted on 11/19/2007 2:13:49 PM PST by icwhatudo
It sounds like an excellent learning opportunity about deception and temptation. My view is that it is always better to teach my children to deal with adversity than to shield them from it (an impossibility)...
once you are sucked in, logic doesn’t matter anymore and it is very difficult to get out. This is the case on a national level in North Korea. The Koreans have perfected the art of brainwashing to a science.
Who else's values would you suggest he teach his kids?
well you can have your kids raised by wolves or locked in a Romanian orphanage...
Thanks for spoiling the plot and exposing this corrupt bildge that could corrupt our children’s hearts.
We will stick with LOTR/NARNIA. Even Harry pottery creeps me out...
good pt.
And a big old bump to that. We won't be seeing the movie. I don't give my money knowingly to folks I disagree with. Too many other good options out there to waste my money on something I don't like. :-)
No. It is an idea to explore with adults, who can distinguish between heresy and gospel, and who have had some real life experience in order to put the lie to moral relativism.
If your kids are intellectually advanced enough to understand the temptation of Eve and its array of implications, then they might be advanced enough to recognize that Pullman is using the same ploy as the Serpent. Most kids are not, because they don't yet get the full implications of the Fruit of Knowledge or Satan's lie about what it would bring. They just see that Pullman is telling them that the Authority Figure is stealing their birthright.
Just because an idea exists doesn't mean it is worthy of "exploration with your kids". That's the same justification that is used by the purveyors of moral relativism to push their adult agenda on our schools, from homosexual activism to anti-patriotism to sexual libertine-ism to radical feminism to cultural equivalence. The reason this agitprop is targeted at kids and pre-teens is precisely because they are not yet emotionally or intellectually equipped to resist the manipulation. Propaganda is most effective on the pubescent.
I can find good things in Harry Potter. This was exceptional in that it had so little to offset the themes. Though I'm really curious how they will handle one anti-heroic death in the first movie, I'll pass.
Its more like, why would I put money in their god-hating pockets?
That's usually what we try to pass on to our children.
That’s called indoctrination, or brain-washing, even if well-intended.
Sound like something Hillary would say.
Aces!
Dumbledoorknob is gay. That did it for me. Many Catholics and freepers warned me.
I thought they were being too stiff.
I was wrong.
Lord of the Rings and the Narnia books are both overtly Christian books, written by Oxford Dons who were trying to convey Christian ideas and ideals largely without mentioning any specific religious names or history. They were part of a group that called themselves the Inklings. There is a fairly large body of evidence (including her own statements) that J. K. Rowling was trying to continue that tradition with the Harry Potter books.
The guy who wrote these books is an anti-Inkling, trying to tear down Christian ideas and ideals and specifically intending to bring about the downfall of any Christian church, but most specifically the Catholic church, as I understand it.
People have been trying to kill God for over 2000 years.....
I’ve always observed whenever somebody uses the argument, ‘my faith is so strong that i don’t have to acknowledge God’, or ‘if your faith is so weak as being able to consume blasphemous materials without harm’, etc, that the person using such an argument has missed out on faith along time ago and does little to live by faith through Christ.
Just curious about the “its good to see the other side” types...are you planing on seeing “Redacted” as well?
“Indoctrination” is a GOOD THING if the doctrine is the Truth.
And, given the detritus that tends to flow out of the common social discourse, I observe that most human brains are in need of a thorough washing.
Really ? No discussion about how that arbitrary collection of chemicals can feel pain just as he does, and can also strike back at him ?
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