Not Wanting Sin (in the wrong way).
Not wanting the presence of sin to be around your children isn’t a bad thing, but it can be symptomatic of a problematic (and even sinful) attitude. Doug Wilson explains by touching on some different issues of how we often miss the mark completely when we talk about “protecting our children” or lament those who (gasp!) “shelter their children.”
You think the problem is low entertainment standards, when the actual problem is that no Christian parents — including you — are teaching their kids what moral leadership looks like. About a third of the kids who went to that movie didn’t really want to, and wouldn’t have gone if someone in the class — I am thinking of your son in particular — had done more than simply studied his shoelaces when the subject came up. You are tempted to think that the others have low entertainment standards, when the real lesson is that your son is not a moral leader. The response ought not to be to do something that will make him even less of one.
Read the whole thing here.
