Thursday, December 27, 2007

Trials of a Christian father

This is a brand new venture for me. I am a very recent father, 18 month old boy, with our first little girl on the way. To say I'm scared would be putting it mildly. How do you raise Christian children in this world we live in today? A world that idolizes Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Hollywood in general. You have all of these sycophants drooling over everything these misfits are doing and and condemn anyone who says they have no morals, as if the liberal left has any claim on any kind of moral standing. The age of permissiveness is indeed alive and well in Hollywood.
Liberalism, with all of its magnanimous views, is concerned about only one thing...permissiveness in everything. Do what you want and God help anyone who gets in your way or disagrees.
I am not saying that EVERYTHING that comes out of Hollywood is garbage...just the majority of it. I am keenly anticipating the release of the next volume in the "Narnia" series; Prince Caspian.
As a "newer" parent I am struggling with how to present this world to my children. As a Christian parent I know I have a responsibility to raise my children with faith and love but not shield them from this world and its many flaws, to do this would condemn them to naivete and then the world would just eat them alive.
I know I am rambling in this first post and I promise to stay on point in the future.

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