Are the same ones who aren't allowing them to see family-friendly movies like Golden Compass and Narnia because "they tell a kid what to believe in and what not to"? Most kids on average are much more intelligent than that, but their religion doesn't allow for it. Using a movie to teach religion makes no sense to me and comes across as bad parenting.
I was much more disturbed by the violence in Passion of the Christ and how it was justified "but violence in anything is wrong and sinful". I just didn't think that it was appropriate even for adults, much less any children or teenagers.
2007-12-09 10:56:32 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It still amazes me that Christian parents would think that Passion Of The Christ was acceptable for their children to watch.
2007-12-09 11:00:37 · answer #1 · answered by S K 7 · 5⤊ 3⤋
I think Narnia is a good movie, because it has a religious message in it. -It is good.
The golden compass is what I would call a B-rated movie, produced by an Atheist who denies Jesus Christ. He promotes evil. That is NOT good.
Those two movies don't go in the same category.
However, "The Passion of the Christ" was an excellent movie.
It is the TRUTH. It only showed what Jesus Christ had to go through. HE died for our sins. I think it should be an eye opener to some folks who take God and life for granted.
I believe that this movie has reached some people for the better. The movie was not meant for harm, but for GOOD.
But those who love evil will not agree.
Furthermore,
It is the Christians who get persecuted. (NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND)
It says so in the Bible.
2 Timothy 3:12
In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
Matthew 5:10
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:11
"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
Matthew 5:12
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Matthew 5:44
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Matthew 24:9
"Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.
Luke 21:12
"But before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.
John 5:16
[ Life Through the Son ] So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him.
John 15:20
Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.
Romans 12:14
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
1 Corinthians 4:12
We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;
2007-12-09 11:18:33 · answer #2 · answered by †Evonne† 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My daughter is 4. She has been raised interior the Catholic church. She speaks English alongside with a splash Portuguese, French, and Spanish, so she will't comprehend what's being pronounced interior the action picture. mutually as she is a great reader for her age, the subtitles are a splash too complicated and circulate a splash too at once for her to capture them so her concentration may be surprisingly lots thoroughly on the visuals of the action picture as antagonistic to the story. She knows aspects of the Bible and knows what happened to Jesus, yet lots of the emphasis of His dying has been on the sacrifice and love in contact rather of the somewhat actual torture of it. i think of i replaced into approximately 13 the 1st time I observed it and enjoyed violent movies or maybe i presumed it replaced into surprisingly severe. i can not see something to be won via having her watch it now apart from nightmares. while she's older, confident.
2016-11-15 01:50:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never watched "the passion of Christ" but I wish I did. I'm in my pre-teens (not giving my age stalkers out there!) but I can watch "the golden compass" if I discuss how its wrong after the movie with my parents... and I used to think that my parents were discriminating me for "forcing me to be christian" but I got real faith later on.
2007-12-09 11:02:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I read a review of 'The Passion...' and it included how there were young children in the audience looking pretty traumatised. It was a form of child abuse - torture and murder of good people is a reality now, but we do not think that children should see it, unless we are sick bastards. It doesn't make it any more justifiable that it was about Jesus - what is a child going to make of that and then being told 'he died for your sins' - what sins? That is what Pullman objects to, the concept of sin in christianity.
2007-12-09 11:07:32 · answer #5 · answered by Fanny Blood 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I suspect you're overclaiming a tad for the "kids to passion" thing. We certainly didn't. At the ratings level it got, we could not have if we had wanted to. There were no kids at all in either showing we went to.... nada.
There are other Jesus films we can show them, such as the excellent Gospel of John film with the guy from Lost in it, Henry Ian Cusick. Or "The Nativity Story."
2007-12-09 11:01:15 · answer #6 · answered by evolver 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I know of very few Christian parents who allowed their young children to see The Passion.
2007-12-09 11:00:45 · answer #7 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No actually my kids have not seen any of those movies. I think you are being a bit judgmental..........don't judge how others parent just take care of your own children and stop worrying about what others choose to do.
2007-12-09 11:02:20 · answer #8 · answered by Oh me oh my...♥ 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
yes, the violence was inappropiate, it was cruel sadistic and least of all painful. We dont want to look at it, but Jesus had to endure it, for love of you and I , imagine his mother watching her son being scourged, these people had to endure this to the hilt, but you find it wrong and sinful. you had to engage in his suffering by the visual, Jesus endured it in the reality.
2007-12-09 12:08:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
How about dashing babies against the rocks... and after that expecting a blessing from god!
Psalm 137: 8-9 - O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us- he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
The Bible is full of violence!
2007-12-09 11:06:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋