To cool Ranger fever in your home, try asking some leading age-appropriate questions. For example:
* What is the source of the Power Rangers' power?
God tells us to "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6) This means helping your child build a biblical world view, a mental framework based on God's Word not the world's distortions. Viewing the world through the filter of truth, your child will accept what God loves, discern what He hates, and enjoy the safety He offers those who follow Him.
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What is the source of the Power Rangers' power?
I hate this argument so goddamn much. This best rebuttal to it that I've read actually comes from TV Tropes, of all places.
Sometimes used against superhero and fantasy stories. The argument runs that if a source of what appears to be magical power is not explicitly explained or understood, then the power must come from Satan, and therefore the story is part of the Satanic agenda. A more likely explanation is that the writers intended the character to use a type of energy or phlebotinum that is as of yet unknown in our world, or that the power was intended to be a metaphor.
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How absurd is this argument? Picture a medieval peasant coming forward in time to your home and declaring that you must be in league with the devil because you use an ungodly power to light your home, cook your food, wash your clothes, etc. This power is electricity, but to the medieval peasant's eyes, such power could have only come from the devil.
Given my exposure, as far as I will ever admit, is limited to MMPR, allow me to fly over this brain-melt
-an alien
I can't decide if an evangelical version of Power Rangers would be hilarious, offensive, boring, or some mixture of the three.
Well, to answer you questions in order:
-Aliens
-the morphing grid, a universal biofield that can be accessed by science and magic alike.
If you want to talk about training up a child's world view, I grew up with the Rangers. I learned more about right and wrong, good and evil, and how to be a good person from watching them then I ever did from sunday school.
To cool Ranger fever in your home, try asking some leading age-appropriate questions.
The answers that you get won't make you happy, and trying to forbid it in the house is begging for the forbidden fruit syndrome.
God tells us to "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6)
I'm guessing that Berit's never heard of being raised a Christian fundamentalist (as opposed to a sane Christian) actually driving people away from the faith once they manage to escape from their parents.
EDIT: Forgot to enter my name-Wanderer.
If I remember those Sentai series correctly, they only have an explicitly magic-powered team once. (It was called Magiranger or something back in Japan, I think)
Did they translate that into a Power Rangers season at some point?
Isn't there a saying that if alien technology is sufficiently advanced, it would appear to be magic, 2033429?
Sort of like the Asgardians in the MCU; they aren't gods, they're just super-advanced aliens.
* What is the source of the Power Rangers' power?
*The ambiguously-defined plot device known as the Morphing Grid.
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