This is what passes for christian children's educational material
March 3, 2012 at 1:55 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2012 at 2:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
My two year old is fascinated with dinosaurs, loves em. Talks your ear off about them. Those few things she knows are repeated to me endlessly (and, to the extent that she is two, I am thoroughly impressed by what she knows..which to her, is volumes). My father-in-law, like any opportunistic predator...pounces with a "gift".
"Children often have a big problem understanding how dinosaurs fit with Creation and the Bible. Yet the basic mystery about dinosaurs is easy to solve with the help of God's Word. This unusual book presents dinosaurs as a part of God's wonderful creation and uses them to introduce important Biblical concepts concerning Creation, the nature of God, Man's fall to sin, Noah's Flood, Christ's redemption, and God's plan for the restoration of paradise."
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Dinosaur-Mys...0781430712
(want a laugh, read the fucking reviews)
Do they often have a problem with it? You don't say? Maybe you "educated" adults should have taken that as a clue, a canary in the mines moment? The cover is complete with an Elephant and a Parasaurolophus, drinking from the same pond, at the same time......while a human watches over, fully clothed, standing next to a Gazelle/Ibex (not sure...I don't think they are either). I agree, the book is unusual, it does use dinosaurs. It is unusual that an adult would be so irresponsible in educating a child, and it does use a child's interests to smuggle bullshit into a legitimate source of wonder, ostrensibly, so that the child may be used later, for something else, like perpetuating this garbage. I don't think I was supposed to know about it, because I'd never seen it until today (when he brought them home from the park). Moser wouldn't leave his van without it, she threw a fit, and now I know. She's clearly had it read to her many, many times....... I can't even express how furious this shit makes me. I can't stop editing this fucking post.
(If anyone wondered, yes, my father-in-law professes a belief in the literal word to his wife, my wife(his daughter), now his grand-children, and all of his bridge playing friends. To me, he's all about the beautiful metaphors of genesis.)
"Children often have a big problem understanding how dinosaurs fit with Creation and the Bible. Yet the basic mystery about dinosaurs is easy to solve with the help of God's Word. This unusual book presents dinosaurs as a part of God's wonderful creation and uses them to introduce important Biblical concepts concerning Creation, the nature of God, Man's fall to sin, Noah's Flood, Christ's redemption, and God's plan for the restoration of paradise."
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Dinosaur-Mys...0781430712
(want a laugh, read the fucking reviews)
Do they often have a problem with it? You don't say? Maybe you "educated" adults should have taken that as a clue, a canary in the mines moment? The cover is complete with an Elephant and a Parasaurolophus, drinking from the same pond, at the same time......while a human watches over, fully clothed, standing next to a Gazelle/Ibex (not sure...I don't think they are either). I agree, the book is unusual, it does use dinosaurs. It is unusual that an adult would be so irresponsible in educating a child, and it does use a child's interests to smuggle bullshit into a legitimate source of wonder, ostrensibly, so that the child may be used later, for something else, like perpetuating this garbage. I don't think I was supposed to know about it, because I'd never seen it until today (when he brought them home from the park). Moser wouldn't leave his van without it, she threw a fit, and now I know. She's clearly had it read to her many, many times....... I can't even express how furious this shit makes me. I can't stop editing this fucking post.
(If anyone wondered, yes, my father-in-law professes a belief in the literal word to his wife, my wife(his daughter), now his grand-children, and all of his bridge playing friends. To me, he's all about the beautiful metaphors of genesis.)
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