ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture (CAP) Review Summary

(The ChildCare Action Project (CAP) is a nonprofit Christian ministry)

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Findings / Scoring

Wanton Violence/Crime (W):

• a boy forcing a berry into the mouth of a little girl
• danger of a fall from great heights
• bounding disembodied heads
• consumption of characters by another
• potentially lethal risk-taking by a child to rescue someone
• threat to kill
• threats of harm
• threat to child, repeatedly
• great fall stopped by witchcraft

Impudence/Hate (I)(1):

• adolescent sass to parents
• little girl running off alone in a strange place and mom/dad letting her
• greed
• gluttony

Sex/Homosexuality (S):

• obvious focus on human nudity using a baby's posterior as the vehicle, repeatedly

Drugs/Alcohol (D):

• smoking
• "Saki is on the house"

Offense to God (O)(2):

• shrines for spirits
• apparitions, many, repeatedly
• mother/father changing into pigs
• little girl turning transparent
• bird with human head (witch)
• "In the name of wind and water within thee, unbind her. Get up!"
• spell mumbo jumbo and spell casting repeatedly
• magic to manipulate others (control, threaten, change)
• thought casting
• unholy manifestations, e.g., levitation for sinister/evil purposes, repeatedly
• threats by unholy force, repeatedly
• shape-shifting, repeatedly
• magic to manufacture
• presence of witch, repeatedly, humbling the practitioner occasionally for effect

Murder/Suicide (M)(3):

• none noted