Ideas Have Consequences, pt 1 Sandi

Weaver keeps reminding us that modern man has lost his referense point. I think we all would have to say this is why we are home schooling. To try to help our kids have a better referense point. Christ of course is that reference point. All things filtered through the view of truth proclaimed in the World of God. Your ideas to shelter are appropriate. The real world people often speak of, does not include God. We live in a very anti-God world. The difference is this,… from my perspective. In Weavers book, he speaks about the media, showing things like a woman crushed by a subway train, and this is used on the front page, he calls this obscenities. He is correct, but this information needs to be passed on to our children(the truth about it being obscene). Its not a matter of never showing them the front page, or trying to protect them from the front page. It is about preparing them to live in a world , where this is what is on the front page. This is what I believe the bible means when it says we are to take all things captive for Christ. We are to take the junk that is on the front page, let them know whats there and then say, this is JUNK, why? because this women and her emtions (back to the crushed woman) are being exploited. This front page tries to suggests that this is the “real” world. and it is only one aspect of the real world. This is junk because if you view it too often you will not “feel” anything for this woman -eventually a regular diet of these obscenites will cause you to be less human….etc. Of course the preparation comes at an age appropriate time, and because you and I are still pioneers in how this is all done, there is no text book for good timing. One example that comes to mind for our generation is the Vietnam war brought into the homes of Americans. The affect of this was monumental. Should we have hidden ourselves from the realities of war? I think not, but do we need them served up in our living rooms? And how aware we all became of the easily manipulated point of view. The camera so easily swayed americans against the war, as it still does today. Do we shelter ourselves from the reality, again No, but is there an appropriate place? I think so…