RE: This is what passes for christian children's educational material
March 3, 2012 at 9:30 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2012 at 9:34 pm by Cyberman.)
It dismays me when adults who ought to know better try to indoctrinate children in this way, particularly other people's children. Some years ago a friend of mine who was rather more devout then than now tried this sort of shit on my nephew, then of single-digit age. He - the friend - started telling my nephew about demons and monsters etc, granted in a PG kind of Sunday school way but still trying to insist that it was all real. After he had left the room, my nephew asked me in a tremulous voice if what he'd been told was true and after I asked replied that he was frightened by it. I assured him it was all just stories, calmed him down then went off for a little polite 'chat' with my friend. One short sharp discussion later and said friend has never played the same trick again, not to me or any of my family. Curiously, we are still great friends because in every other aspect he's actually a decent bloke. Just used to get some funny ideas.
In other news: Yay, nine centuries of posting! Next stop - medal!
In other news: Yay, nine centuries of posting! Next stop - medal!
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
