**Stories more dangerous than John Wick...on your bookshelves?**

Retired assassin, John Wick, has a choice to make...

Break his oath to an old comrade (Santino)...

Or keep his oath by murdering Santino's sister.

He chooses to keep his oath.

Stories, music, art, are all a reflection of worldview.

So it shouldn’t be any surprise that, as the west has turned away from God, its stories have gotten darker and more hopeless.

For instance, if you compare modern TV shows to ones from even just a decade ago, there is a dark, nihilistic edge now that wasn’t there before.

**They have become increasingly obsessed with death, darkness, horror, torment.** Everything has to be “gritty” and “realistic.” They focus on the “human condition” (i.e., sin), trying to glorify it by wallowing in it — instead of looking beyond it, to the true and good and beautiful as God defines them.

This is especially obvious in heroes and villains. Instead of showing us models of righteousness to aspire to, heroes these days have to be flawed or broken or morally ambiguous or consumed by pain. And instead of showing us models of wickedness to avoid, the bad guys have to be misunderstood, or antiheroes, or driven to evil by forces beyond their control.

Is John Wick a hero or a villain? Most movie-goers seem to think hero. But his actions say otherwise.

Because of this trend, it has become more important than ever to guard your children’s consumption of stories.

**But this trend began *long* ago.**

The “great classics” of literature will often use the power of story to lead your children away from God in the same way. But, like the serpent, **they are more subtle** — and so more dangerous. The humanism and nihilism of modern stories is fairly easy to spot. By contrast, stories like Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird draw the soul away from God with far more ingeniously-crafted heroes, and far more inconspicuously negative narratives.

This is why we designed our [1st–12th grade Christian Literature curriculum]() to help you follow a 4-phase, “walk with the wise” approach to literature studies — one that arms your children with *truly good literature* before they do battle with the so-called great literature.

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