If have heard a thousand times, "I let my children watch that movie because it is true." Does this really justify exposing children to such an extreme level of violence? If I made a move just as violent and gory about the mass murder, rape, and genocide going on in Africa would you still expose your children to it? Would you wait till they were old enough to understand?
2006-12-13 04:53:43 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i agree with you. I am a Christian and that movie was VERY hard to watch, I would NEVER let a young child watch that. To them it doesnt matter if it really happened or not. All they see is violence and blood and pain.
2006-12-13 04:57:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good point. I answered the question about The Passion and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre by saying that I have allowed my kids...11 & 14... to see TCM and not The Passion due to the excessive brutality of the latter.
However, we have watched SOMETIMES IN APRIL, and THE HOTEL RWANDA together. They've also seen SCHINDLER'S LIST. At the moment, I'm not certain as to why I allow some and not others. It may be that in THE PASSION, the brutality was non-stop, unrelenting, and directed towards one person for a substantial amount of time. That made it torturous to watch, and I think that may the reason why I don't allow my kids to see it.
2006-12-13 05:02:17 · answer #2 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think Christian parents let their kids watch it because in church, even when your young, you learn about everything that happened. I doubt anyone was really bringing their little kids to watch the movie, but certainly their older elementry and middle school kids. And there is no way a movie could possibly even scratch the surface of the horrors of Africa. But, it would be such an eye opener for Americans.
2006-12-13 04:58:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you people realize that if you watch a movie that you will not allow your children to watch with you, you are the very definition of a HYPOCRITE!!! That is so having a double standard, you probably also drink alcohol and smoke, swear and every other thing right in front of your children, and tell them not to do the very same thing they watch you do.
2006-12-13 05:13:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anti-Christianity is the last acceptable bigotry. You appear to be proof of that.
Don't assume.
Did you know there are TWO versions of The Passion of the Christ? The shocking version and the Non Shocking version. That is to say, the kid friendly version.
Mel Gibson has quite a few children. Some of whom are still too young to see the original film. So he created a "Passion Lite" so to speak. It's called The Passion Recut.
Look it up.
2006-12-13 05:03:56 · answer #5 · answered by Max Marie, OFS 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Steven King wrote a review in the New York Times about his experience in the theatre. He said that he sat next to a young girl who was left in the theatre alone by her parents. He said that by the end of the movie she looked like Alex in a Clockwork Orange.
2006-12-13 05:00:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on how old my kids are. No kid of mine will even watch the Passion of the Christ until they reach the age of it's rating. Same with any other movie.
2006-12-13 04:56:23 · answer #7 · answered by sister steph 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would let my son watch this movie. It's no different that walking into a Roman Catholic church on Sunday and explaining why Jesus is NAILED to a cross!
2006-12-13 05:04:35 · answer #8 · answered by Nibbles 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If I had children, I would refuse to let them watch it, simply because it would fill their head with lies.
2006-12-13 04:58:24 · answer #9 · answered by ana_is_a_cat 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My six-year old niece refuses to watch that $hitty piece of violence.
2006-12-13 04:56:13 · answer #10 · answered by Irreverend 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋