(July 23, 2016 at 2:14 am)robvalue Wrote: I'm starting to suspect that theists don't have this talk with their children. That they don't work through examples of different types of stories, to help them understand the difference between plausible reality and fantasy. Instead it seems I'm being told this is an impractical or impossible task to undertake with a child. It really isn't. There have been several sensible, practical methods described in this thread. I'd love some theists to rush in here and explain sometime soon, I have a low sample size so far.
How can theists have this talk/method, without making huge unjustified exceptions to their own magical obviously (partly) fictional stories? And they certainly can't have such a talk with the child first. Can you imagine?
"Let's see if anyone else saw the dragon. Let's examine how credible they are as eye witnesses. They can't all be lying." No fuck off, it's talking about a dragon.
I hope I'm wrong. If anyone has evidence to the contrary, I'd be relieved to hear it.
It would seem that your general principle, is going to come with a lot of rules, that you need to indoctrinate them with!
