Go for it! I'm confident that, given what you know now from reading this article, you'll come away from the books with the idea that they are not appropriate for kids to read anymore. Unless you're some kind of Christian nationalist, in which case you'll have found mandatory reading.

If you are going to read them, check out the other article that I wrote about the best order to read them in. There's actually quite a debate about it, and the order according to the numbers on the books' spines is widely regarded to be the worst order.