[CS-FSLUG] OT: Potter, Halloween and Philipians 4:8

[Eduardo Sanchez]

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 12.13, doc wrote:
> > And obviously here we have a major difference. You and I understand
> > very differently the task of "being in the world but not being of
> > the world". I can read Potter books while remaining holy and not
> > worldly, as much as the Apostle Paul could read a whole bunch of
> > Stoic Greek poets and remaining the holiest of people.
>
> I think the challenge in this thread is that
> we keep switching back and forth between what
> is appropriate for *children* and what a tiny
> fraction of people who may be spiritually mature
> Christian adults.  The parameters of what is
> "safe" differ greatly between the two.

I think we begin to understand each other despite our differences. 
However, I would be far more lenient with my children than you. I 
believe in intellectual freedom, and while undoubtedly there are some 
books, films and other media that I would *ban* for my children, the 
Potter books would not be counted among these, and there is a whole 
bunch of classical literature too. But conversely, this means that I, 
as a responsible Christian parent, should be *present* providing the 
Biblical counterpoint; and furthermore, I should be practicing that 
Biblical worldview that I so earnestly recommend to them.

>
> I do not *choose* to dump the spiritual trash
> that is intentionally embedded in Harry Potter
> nor the anti-social garbage that is intentionally
> embedded in the Simpsons into the "temple of the
> Holy Spirit" that is the brain part of my body.

I would not use the dump metaphor... I would use more something like a 
screening process, discarding the chaff and selecting the traces of 
good grain in it.

>> I do not *permit* either to be visited upon the
> tender developing brains of our children because
> God commands me to protect them from such.
>
> I have never, and will never, instruct any adult
> as to what they may or may not read or view or
> listen to -- that is between them and God -- but
> I do provide Bible-based instruction as to what
> is good stewardship of the temple of the Holy
> Spirit.

This I understand.

Blessings,


Eduardo
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Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
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http://shadow.sombragris.org
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