{"id":150,"date":"2010-03-30T16:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/03\/141-teaching-small-children-about-the-crucifixion.html"},"modified":"2010-03-30T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:35:06","slug":"141-teaching-small-children-about-the-crucifixion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2010\/03\/141-teaching-small-children-about-the-crucifixion.html","title":{"rendered":"#141 Teaching small children about the crucifixion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 20px;text-align: center\" alt=\"cruc1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/easter%20story\/cruc1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/span>An interesting paradox in Christian culture takes place this time of year. Christian culture normally doesn&#8217;t endorse graphic depictions of violence, but come Eastertide they rent <em>The Passion of the Christ<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stuffchristianculturelikes\/2009\/04\/75-the-passion-of-the-christ.html\">rated R for its violence<\/a>)&nbsp;and encourage their children to draw pictures of the crucifixion. This is not only completely normal to them, it is seen as educational and even wholesome. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 20px;text-align: center\" alt=\"cruc2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/easter%20story\/cruc2.jpg\" width=\"272\" height=\"188\" \/><\/span>Usually Christian culture is pretty outspoken against violence in movies and video games, and they&#8217;ve even devoted periodicals to the parsing of&nbsp;positive and negative content in movies and TV. Then you have Easter. In Sunday school small children draw a smiling Jesus on the cross with red crayon scrawled all over him, holes in his hands and feet, and a big gash in his side. Their parents hang these pictures on the refrigerator. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 20px;text-align: center\" alt=\"cruc4.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/105\/import\/easter%20story\/cruc4.JPG\" width=\"284\" height=\"344\" \/><\/span>When it comes to Jesus, three-year-olds may absolutely create art projects with a grisly ancient execution theme. It&#8217;s not only permissible, it&#8217;s encouraged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting paradox in Christian culture takes place this time of year. 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