Childrens Bible stories- Nebuchadnezzar

My favorite Veggie Tales as a kid was the story of Shadrach, Mesach, and Abednego and the furnace. Now as a a backdrop the evil king Nebudchadnezzar threw the three of them in a furnace 7 times hotter than the usual temperature. Now Veggie Tales does a good job of desensitizing this by having them worship a giant chocolate bunny and are thrown into a hot fire that looks like something from Dr. Seuss. In reality the furnace they went into was similar to what would have been used in a concentration camp. The fact that Shadrach, Mesach, and Abednego were able to survive this furnace is nothing short of the grace of God. I think this story is alot like Noah and the Ark. We like to desensitize the horrific fact of this story and many others in the bible to tone it down so that our children will learn the stories of the bible.