Author Phil Phillips, known for Turmoil in the Toybox, once warned parents that toys like He-Man could pull children away from faith. He recalled a boy running through a church parking lot yelling, “He-Man has more power than Jesus!” — a moment he used to highlight the supposed spiritual danger of cartoons. On the Preacher Boys Podcast, Lindsay Williams breaks down how fear-based messages like these — amplified by Bill Gothard’s endorsement — led parents to quickly purge toys from their homes. |

The book, Turmoil in the Toybox, by Phil Phillips convinced thousands of fundamentalist parents that toys and cartoons like My Little Pony and He-Man were “tools of the occult.” Lindsey William says every time her parents came back from one of Bill Gothard's homeschooling seminars, they'd bring back books just like this, which meant she lost more and more freedom. | Preacher Boys

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