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Moms & Dads: Don’t Get Pulled In By Pullman
…Check beneath the Gift Wrapping
By Tim Murphy
Philip Pullman has joined the ranks of many who market to deceive. His soon to be released movie: “The Golden Compass” will not help you find your way home. On the contrary, this is a compass that will lead you in the opposite direction! Billions of dollars are spent each year on advertising, marketing and merchandising. People will sell just about anything to make money, and these people will entice you any way they can. Subliminally or directly manufacturers, producers and authors will try and wet your appetite with packaging, and ultimately feed you poison.
Look at the fashion industry today; they practically dictate to the world that if your not twenty-five pounds underweight and wearing provocative clothing, you’ll never be popular. Music producers take icons like Brittany Spears and sell music that’s gift wrapped with sex. Liquor companies advertise their poison with flashy colors and tastes to entice the young. Most kids when experimenting with their first taste of liquor, exhibit a facial expression of pain and distortion. Today, the liquor companies have put more flavor and color blended into their booze than there are stars in the sky. They are targeting our youth. Pornography producers will stop at nothing to reach anyone, including our kids. Their websites are pushed into people’s homes and constantly knocking on your monitor. Some of the most beautifully wrapped packages are merely containers of filth. Some products being pushed through today’s media will cripple you for life.
With terrorists on the rise, nature’s fury of hurricanes, fires, floods and droughts, the wars in Pakistan and Iraq, corrupt government leaders, the shrinking of our economy, gangs taking the streets, and people making decisions about abortion as casually as deciding what color jeans to wear, it’s quite obvious to me, that we need to have God in our lives now, more than ever.
I recently received an e-mail containing all of the government buildings which are taking down the Ten Commandments and removing the word of God. After this devastating list went on and on, the camera moved to the burial grounds of our veterans, where there were hundreds upon hundreds of acres full of our soldier’s graves, all which were marked by the cross. Are they going to take those away too?
As a teacher, counselor, and writer, I constantly proclaim that the happiest people in the world are those of us who know God. God created the world in which we live and he created it just for us. Our leaders want us to turn our backs on Him. What a very sad and painful thought it is that God loved the world so much that He gave us His Son to save the world. Now people want to deny Him.
As parents in a world such as the one in which we live, our most crucial agenda needs to be that our kids know the Lord. Our source of love, forgiveness, wisdom, hope and faith is God. He must reign in our lives and reign in our kids.
The multi-billion dollar media has poisoned our youth with pictures, thoughts, icons and promises which lead them to their darkest of days. Books and movies are among the many, by the way they’re gift wrapped and packaged to disguise their message.
Author Philip Pullman is an atheist. He’s very proud of it and we live in a country where all of us have that right. This is why I’m appealing to parents. Pullman’s books have enticed our young with a message destructive to God. You and I both know that God is in indestructible, but His word and His love take a bashing by writer Philip Pullman. Since the success of the trilogy of books he’s authored, his movie: “The Golden Compass,” will soon be darkening theatres near you. Don’t be pulled in by Pullman, because his cast is good and advertising-slick. His message in this movie will bring darkness and shadow the truth which has made our world and every living thing in it. We know that the world that our great God gave us, through His own creation, can’t be destroyed by a two hour movie. A golden compass gives us not the slightest direction, as it points away from the cross.
Moms and Dads across the land, please look closely beyond the gift wrappings that entice your kids. What are inside are lies that deepen the wounds of Christ, which He endured for you and me. Keep Christ in Christmas. Our greatest gift had no fancy wrapping, ribbons or bows. He came to us in a manger, wrapped in swaddling clothes.
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