When Moralism Isn't Bad

"Moralism as a stand-alone product really is heretical and bad.  But it is apparently not bad to sound moralistic sometimes, like when you are summarizing the import of the Old Testament." - Wilson, AC, p58.

So telling Bible stories to little children and summarizing them with some sense of "the moral of the story" isn't always a bad thing to do.  Jesus did.

Matthew 22:37–40 (NKJV)

³⁷ Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ³⁸ This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”