Are we too desensitized to be affected by Bible stories?

Hello,

I have a hard time with how desensitized to violence and sexual behavior we have become as a society. I may be old school, but I remember a time when “adult material” could only play on TV after 10 pm. That included commercials.   Today you can watch the ABC Family channel at 2pm and see commercials for R rated movies. Viagra commercials are rampant on TV. Video games are full of violence.  

I was recently babysitting a 5 yr old girl who showed me her book of Bible Stories. She told me that her favorite story was the one about the baby in the basket. That took me back. I had a Book of Bible Stories when I was a little girl. It even had pictures. I can still see them clear as day when I close my eyes. It used to terrify me.  There were pictures of babies being beheaded.  It still haunts me.

My first thought is, who the heck bought me that book? But, I guess that’s what books of Bible Stories include. My second thought is, how are kids today supposed to live in a God Fearing world when the stories from the Bible don’t feel any worse than what you can see on Network TV?  There are commercials for Rated R movies that come on during that day that scare the heck out of me and I’m an adult. I shudder to think how they are affecting kids.

God loves us and we should Love Him. We should be afraid of mortal consequences. 

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Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Every son who is born you are to cast into the Nile, and every daughter you are to keep alive."

-Exodus 1:22