Welcome to Douglas Wilson's Blog and May Blog, presented by Canon Press.

Rotify in your kids' immortal soul.

January 10, 2022.

Introduction.

One of the things I've noticed about Christian parents is that they can be on hyper-alert

about keeping certain forms of corruption out of their homes, but clueless are carefree

about other forms.

They are on guard against pictures of porn, for example, and they have filters on their

computers and the family computers out in the shared living space, and dads talk with

their sons about temptations and so on.

But then, in the form of their kids spotify playlists, they allow all manner of oral filth

into their homes, allowing their kids to listen to however much to the sewage pumps of

the music industry can manage.

This is like being really careful to lock up your house every night, at least on the

side facing the street, while leaving the back door unlocked with all the windows open

on the back alley side, and with the curtains blowing in and out, invitingly, first the

standard.

Christians are given plain instructions on how we are to discipline our minds.

This is a regimen for righteousness, and it is supposed to be holy and glad, not

dirty and dull.

And if Christians are supposed to be setting their minds and hearts in this way, then that

means Christian parents need to be teaching their kids to set their minds and hearts in

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