I found a blog entry elsewhere about the proliferation of awful Christian merchandise. It reminds me of a book my wife and I are reading about raising our son.
Dr. Kimmel questions the value of insulating our children inside an artificial Christian culture. In other words, they can listen to rock, but only Christian rock. They can listen to the radio, but only Christian radio. All the board games are Christian, the video games are Christian, etc.
Based on my own experience, it looks like American Christians are trying to create their own pocket universe inside of our culture. The thing is, the pocket universe is incerdibly similar to our own, but usually of B-Rate quality.
More later.
Yeah, I’ve always felt a little concerned for kids who were raised in the so-called Christian bubble. I have seen it seem to turn out well, when the kids just created the next generation bubble, but it wasn’t what I wanted for my kids. They deal with the real world. My view is that if they don’t have the convictions to do what’s right, then the bubble is false and quite precarious. That doesn’t mean I didn’t set and encourage limits and boundaries, but they were within reality.