Creative editing on your part. Don’t forget the next sentence. Everybody who thinks this matter ALREADY HATED HIM.
And as “impressionable kids” I’ll go with the Barkley on that, if your kids are learning moral lessons from athletes on TV the failure is YOU not the athlete.
Wow!That illusory world floating around you is powerful, after all, eh?
When it comes to moral lessons in this world of ours, unfortunately, it's never (a) OR (b)...
It's usually A, B, C, D...
And even the Bible makes it clear that beyond the world's negative influences, we have other battlefronts (supernatural agents otherwise known as forces of darkness...demons)...and even the corruption of our very own hearts.
And, yes, fortunately there's such a thing MORE (significant) influence and LESS (either insignificant or less weighty) influence...
But, unless you've got a kid bundled up in the wilds of Alaska free from peers, free from TV, free from the Internet...and the overwhelming # of high school & even middleschool kids...even kids who don't watch TV...are hooked up to the internet via cell phones...
They wind up taking in "moral lessons" from multiple sources.
Certainly, I believe NONE of these OTHER sources ... even peers ... overwhelm any influential parent taking an active role in their kids' lives.
Yet I heard somebody say it one time...
How you could take the best kid (even in an active Christian home) ...
...in the best classroom (even in a Christian school)...
...being taught by the best Christian educator...
...in the best Christian influenced community...
...and that kid would still rather offend that teacher than the peer group.
IoW...the peer group is both more powerful than we think...and that the protective "cacoon" of our kids is oft only as good as that kids' immediate daily peer group he/she hangs out with...