A movie just came on the television. Preceding this movie was a message giving the rating of the movie, and this rating was "G" for general audiences including children.
This movie is a religious movie about the ten commandments containing violence, gore, slavery, death, cruelty, murder etc etc.

My questions is:

Why is it ok for children to watch a movie which would be otherwise unsuitable for their eyes, just because it has religious content?

Other questions:
Is it that religion needs to be indoctrinated in small children by any means necessary, even if it means scaring them half to death before they are fully ready for such gore, so that it sticks with them for the rest of their life?
Is this advisable for any other type of knowledge?
Does anyone else find this harmful? And if not, why not allow children to watch other such secular movies without parental supervision?
Why, if religious knowledge is "the truth", does it need to go through so many hoops and elaborate indoctrination techniques to be believed?

Any thoughts?

Even homosexuality is permitted as long as it is kept within the church! Ask any pedophile priest.

Got to get kids to start fearing God early. Anything is G rated as long as it is Biblical. Murder, rape, theft, lying, cheating, and misleading or acting hypocritically is all acceptable conduct in media of any kind as long as it promotes the bible.

Look at the original Passion of the Christ. just a good old Catholic excuse to bash Jews. Hate is acceptable as long as you hate what the Church hates.

I screened everything before my son could watch it. he was not indoctrined into anything. He is now 18 and makes his own choice

Is there something wrong with being Catholic?I notice that you reference them often.

I have no qualms with any religion but seems to me that a good portion of the priests caught molesting altar boys are catholic....

*editted due to forgetting to post response to topic lol

As for movies of this nature i was watching them when i was 6, then my mom would sit me down and talk to me about the movie and explain reality vs fiction. I am fine with watching horror movies as long as the parent screens it and knows their children well enough to know how a movie like that will affect them.

"a good portion of the priests caught molesting altar boys are catholic"

What about people that arnt priests or catholic that are molestors? Are there a lot of them? Are there more ?

It would seem, IMO, that you are pointing to the well established 'hypocritical double standards' of the 'the one and only truth' of all those self appointed perverse 'christan churches', or delusional paper popes. They all give christianity a bad name.

As for the movies you are referring to, they are more often than not, squarely pornographic and indecent.

Furthermore, my wife and I have never needed a 'rating', to overule our own responsiblities.

If it were up to me, all those bible movies, produced by cheap opportunists, or delusional 'crusading' and hate filled christian funamentalists, would all be rated 'D & H, f.p.o.a.a', that is : '

'... Dangerous and Harmful for people of all ages'.

Well, that's ridiculous anyway.

Haven't the Christians read the Old Testament?

The God of Abraham specifically instructed the Jews in no uncertain terms that it is their duty to brutally murder heathens.

Jesus was most certainly a heathen by Old Testament standards. There can be no question about that.

According to the authors of the gospels, Jesus claimed to be God. That's blaspheme. He also put himself BEFORE the God of Abraham by proclaiming that no one can get to the Father but through him. That a direct rejection of the TEACHINGS of the the God of Abraham and the a direct VIOLATION of the very FIRST of the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament!

If the Jews were responsible for having Jesus crucified they were only doing obeying the commandments of the God of Abraham and clearly carrying out his WILL.

In fact, according to the entire story it was indeed God's WILL that Jesus be crucified. So the Jews were the HANDS OF GOD doing precisely what God had commanded them to do.

The God of Abraham would need to embrace the Jews and accept them into his heaven as being totally obedient and refusing to accept any other God BEFORE HIM!

In fact, if the God of Abraham actually set up this whole show then he has no one to blame for it but himself!

Moreover, any Christian who does not fully accept the crucifixion of Jesus being done FOR THEIR SAKE has not accepted the sacrifice at all.

It's makes absolutely no sense to claim to accept Jesus as the sacrifical lamb of God and then denounce the sacrifice.

Any Christian who isn't willing to nail Jesus to the Cross him or herself is blatantly refusing to accept the sacrifice and rejecting it on their behalf.

It's an oxymoronic religion!

To accept Jesus as the sacrifical lamb of God demands that a person accept repsonsiblity for the crucifixion!

Christains don't seem to get this at all.

They want to pretend that they reject the Crucifixion but accept the sacrificial lamb!

They want the blood of the Crucifixion to be on someone else's hands!

But that makes absolutely no sense at all.

Only Christians have the blood of Jesus on their hands. No one else.

I reject the whole thing. I reject any God who is appeased by blood sacrifices and I refuse to condone blood sacrifices.

If this God is such a hateful bully that he is anxious to cast me into an eternal hell fire for refusing to condone the crucifixion of Jesus then so be it.

Such a God isn't worthy of my worship anyway.

Only Christians are responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus. People who refuse to accept the crucifixion in their name cannot possibly be held responsible for it.

And the Jews were only obeying the directives God of Abraham. No one can blame them for that unless they believe the God of Abraham to be a totally ficticious God.

Chrisianity is an oxymoronic religion.

Ah passion and FIRE! Can't have one without the other! That and those were valid points of argument!

The better question is: Why should it be taught?

Let alone should it be watched is bad enough, but also taught is what I don't understand.

It is sad indeed

I think once they reach the age of accountability, they are old enough to uderstand violence. However, that does not mean I would expose them to such content. I think once they reach 13, they are old enough to be exposed to such.