Christians' Children Are Under Attack More Than Ever

[Freak80]

Originally Posted by justtitans

I think kjw47 put it best. The word of God makes it clear of things that we should expect to happen. That is why we have been asked to test all spirits and use discernment. It is naive to think that everything that has been created for kids is innocent. A poster made a point a couple of pages back about this idea of thinking things like movies could be designed to harm kids, but I posed a question that has yet to be answered. If you think I should not think that every movie harms my kids (which I never said this by the way), then would it be hard to believe that everything created for our children is innocent?

By innocent, do you mean "following the extremist Christian party line"?

Clearly anything that doesn't follow the party line is part of the conspiracy.

[justtitans]

Originally Posted by Freak80

By innocent, do you mean "following the extremist Christian party line"?

Clearly anything that doesn't follow the party line is part of the conspiracy.

Your response doesn't even make sense. If you understood my post, then you would know that I am not defining what is innocent, it's the people who oppose me who are.

[NoCapo]

Originally Posted by pcamps

The great deception is the attention of christians being focused upon the devil instead of God, resulting in the mind of the christian(although the christian cannot see it) the devil is bigger than God.
God is in all things, everywhere to be seen, yet you want to tell us where and what the devil is hiding in ?, Come on wake o sleeper to righteousness and the kingdom of God in and around you and then you really will have something to talk about.

While I don't share your belief, I think you have a really good point. The focus is what you make it.

I have not watched the movie in question, but it seems to me that one could eqully as accurately characterize it as a film that is anti-commercialism, anti-legalism and totalitarianism, and in favor of following the dicatates of ones conscience even if some manmade authority deems it wrong. If you look at it in that light is is not incompatible at all with modern American Christianity. Instead of focusing your, and by extension your children's attention on the message you don't want them to learn, why not focus on what you do want them to take away from it?

If I dig back into my childhood, the worst possible thing you could have your children playing, from my church's perspective was Dungeons and Drangons. It was a cesspool of evil, occult theology, sex, and violence, right? (Of course at this point in my life I would disagree with that caricature entirely, but at the time...)

Imagine how blown my mind was when I read an interview with Tracy Hickman, a fiction writer who wrote some of early D&D's most icon campaigns, and found out that he used it as a teaching tool in his church! He saw it as a way for kids to learn about choices and consequences, about the value of morality, and about the fuzzy choices and grey areas they would face in their lives. He took what most of thought was irredeemable, and used it to guide kids in their faith, to teach them is a way that no lecture or sermon ever would. If a thoughtful teacher can use D&D to teach morality and faith, it seems to me like pretty much everything could be used for the same purpose, if one will focus on the good they wish to promote and not the "evil" they think is trying to sneak in.

-NoCapo

[ElizaTeal]

I have not read all of the responses. If anything the movie seems to convey a message of anti-capitalism. The title lord is not exclusive to your god. Was Lord Byron god, is a landlord god, is a warlord god?