US Christian right group wages culture war with books, cartoon and nature doc

[haele]

5. The son in this group wrote the kids series Hello Ninja.

Which concerned me, as the five year old grand daughter watches the Network series regularly (along with Steven Universe).

I was wondering why the Fundy other side of her family gave her Hello Ninja books. From what I could tell, this series doesn't push Gawd or gospel stories, and are somewhat self-esteem positive and diverse in a cis-normal worldview (i.e gender is not an issue, but while there are "tomboys", there are no boys with more feminine presence). Also, while in the books, the kids tend to be white, the TV show has kids of different skin colors.

I think this is a case of milk before meat proselytizing to draw people into trusting and buying more of the church product and getting them sucked into the cult.
I'm of two minds; I don't want to give this group any money, but there's nothing I (as a Vet/pagan with a background in cultural anthropology) or Laz (as a long-term atheist that grew up SBC) can see that is propaganda with the books or series that can push a five year old to or from any particular religious thought.

It's difficult to say no to her without sounding like a crank, especially when the other grandparents keep trying to sneak in their particular church's suggested kid's Jesus-flavored kool-aid that would be acceptable to us. So I guess we let her watch the more secular Netflix show rather than confuse her with our more complex understanding of the situation.

Not a good place, and these theocratic a-hole scam artists know it.


Haele