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What's the name if the minion woman4/23/2024 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. I believe that from a biblical perspective evil is never cute and we shouldn’t laugh at it. I see the enemy creatively disguising evil for cute and making it palatable for the next generation to not only accept, but like. In the minion movie, I see a spiritual battle. You and I both know and could sit and point out distinct agendas that are taught in certain movies, whether it be a feminist agenda, a “you create your own destiny” agenda, or simply trying to make evil look funny and cute. I feel the pressure as a parent to allow some of my children to watch movies I would never allow, or at least until they were WAY older. Our culture impresses upon us the idea that kids need to be tough, to grow up and be able to handle certain shows. So if you saw those pictures or came the birthday party with minion theme and were influenced to go watch the movie and were disappointed too, I am so sorry. ![]() Having I had posted pictures of us on social media, I feel a huge sense of accountability. Just as I felt safe taking the recommendation from a friend of mine about the Princess and the Frog movie and it ended up being a bomb for our family, I didn’t want to lead anyone astray. This story is part of my motivation in writing to you. Within the first five minutes, I quickly rushed my spiritually sensitive, pure, crying, fearful five year old daughter out of that movie. I had watched the trailer, but it had all the sweet innocent clips in it, not the ones that exposed the stronghold of voodoo being the main theme in the movie. You would think I would have learned my lesson right? But this movie came recommended by friends I thought were like-minded and I took her to see it without doing a ton of research. I took my 5 year old daughter to see Princess and the Frog, by Disney. DesensitizationĪs parents we need to be careful of the culture’s ability to desensitize us from discerning between good and evil, right and wrong, edifying and destructive.įive years ago I made a similar mistake. Why I Cannot Recommend the Minion Movie 1. Hindsight Lesson Learned: Don’t go see a movie without doing your research. In my defense. We were packing to move our family of eight, I was trying to plan next years curriculum for school, my first online Bible study had just launched, and my husband was working crazy hours like usual (life of an entrepreneur who is running a fast growing start-up). The whole theme of his birthday gifts was minion. And his oldest sister made him a minion birthday cake. In fact, we allowed little buddy to get so excited about this minion movie that we even let his brothers and sisters pick out some little birthday gifts with the minion theme. He LOVES movies, and wanted to watch the new Minion movie that was released the day after his birthday. A few weeks ago one of our children turned seven. Our family has a special birthday tradition where mom and dad take the birthday kid on a special date. Well, in our opinion it was a parenting foul. ![]() I hope that as brothers and sisters in Christ we can have open dialogue challenging one another “as iron sharpens iron” on many topics, without judging or condemning one another. I posted a few pictures of us going to see the movie on social media in celebration of his birthday and immediately upon leaving the theater, I was compelled to delete those posts on Facebook because I didn’t want to condone going to watch it or give them free publicity. I have received a few messages asking what we thought of the movie and feel the need to explain our position. ![]() Simply put, I have felt a burden on my heart to write this post since we took our son to watch it. My intention in writing this post is not to create controversy, nor is it to condemn anyone for taking their children to this movie. Disclaimer: Movies land in one of those “disputable issues” categories.
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