I wouldn't take pre-teen kids to see Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ, and I wouldn't put pictures from Auschwitz, Hiroshima, or Jeffrey Dahamer's basement on the sides of a truck and drive it around town.
I would be deeply concerned about two possibilities: one, that the kids would be shocked and horrified; and two, that eventually they wouldn't be.
Thank you. That was very well said.
My oldest daughter ane I were talking about the holocaust yesterday. She's had benefit of an awesome history teacher who transferred from the Middle School to High School, so she's in her class again this year. She's ready to watch Shindler's List with me. When I watched it with her older sister I told her she couldn't watch it until she was older. She's met 3 survivors who are in our church and has seen their tatooed numbers.
Sorry to go off topic. Yet it is all man's inhumanity to man.
OK. But what if the government was calling Auschwitz a "federally protected work farm" or the Milwaukee police said Dahmer was just "practicing home meat cutting"? I'd say there is a place for calling a spade a spade and not pretending abortion is anything but slaughter.
“But I do think that images of human mutilation are bad, morally, emotionally, and spiritually, for children.”
They are wounding, but they aren’t bad.
In a place and time where one out of three or four pregnancies results in the murder of an unborn child, it may be that people who see the truth, face the truth, and especially those who try to do something about it will be wounded by it.
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