Critique of Minions Movie Themes

The new Minions movie is out, and it's rated PG.

Family fun. And in the middle of it, two characters open a stolen spell

book, light the candles, speak the incantation, and summon a

creature the film itself names the Deceiver.

Sit with that. They told you what it is.

Understand something. There is a battle for your soul.

It is not a metaphor, and children are on the front line.

Not because they're targets of opportunity,

but because they're the softest ground.

Children are wired for stories. It's how God made them.

And stories tell children how to behave, what's normal, what's funny, what's

safe.

And this story has blatantly demonic themes.

Not veiled, not accidental. A forbidden book, a

ritual, a summoning, a deceiver, handed to a six-year-old with

a bucket of popcorn. Now hear me. I'm not telling you your

son walks out of the theater as a sorcerer. That's not the danger.

The danger is slower than that. The danger is the ritual

becomes funny. The summoning becomes cute.

The first time your child ever sees a human being calling a spirit, the whole

theater is laughing. That's not entertainment.

That's formation.

Something is being formed in him or her, and it isn't

reverence.

Scripture is not subtle. There shall not be found among you anyone

who

practices divination or sorcerer or charmer or medium.

The Catechism calls it gravely contrary to the virtue of religion.

Not because God is nervous about make-believe, because the spiritual realm

is real. And do not teach a child to laugh at a

door he

doesn't understand.

So skip this one. Not out of fear, out of being a good parent.

And if they already saw the movie, don't panic. Don't shame them. Sit down.

Ask what they saw. Tell them the truth.

Some things are real, and we don't play with them.

Then bless your house.

Bless your children. You have that authority. Use it.

Not everything animated is innocent. Be battle ready.