{"id":3542,"date":"2006-08-05T01:43:08","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T05:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=3542"},"modified":"2026-07-09T12:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:13:14","slug":"the-ant-bully-a-movie-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/the-ant-bully-a-movie-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ant Bully &#8211; A Movie for Kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by <\/strong><strong>Kjos Ministries\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<br \/>\nMocked and humiliated by the neighborhood bully, ten-year-old Lucas stomps on the first ants he spots in his yard. Then he squirts their anthill with water. The falling drops &#8212; as seen from an ant&#8217;s perspective &#8212; look like a sky-full of huge shimmering canon balls.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the anthill, revenge is brewing. Zoc, the communal wizard, concocts a magical formula for shrinking humans into bug-sized miniatures. Casting his spell on Lucas, Zoc (voice of Nicolas Cage) sets the stage for an inner transformation far more significant than the boy&#8217;s physical change. In his new environment, this solitary human &#8220;Destroyer&#8221; must become a collective server &#8212; a compliant member of the communal ant world he would soon learn to love.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the &#8220;The Ant Bully,&#8221; a Warner Brothers animation released on July 28. Do you wonder why a powerful liberal media conglomerate such as Time-Warner would pour millions of dollars into marketing such a political allegory for five-year-olds?<\/p>\n<p>A blatant promotion of Communitarian solidarity, the movie illustrates some key steps in today&#8217;s systematic process of brainwashing. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210514225142\/http:\/\/www.crossroad.to\/articles2\/006\/ant-bully.htm\">Click here to read this entire article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kjos Ministries\u00a0\u00a0 Mocked and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookfilm-reviews","wpcat-8-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Ant Bully - A Movie for Kids? 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