(August 17, 2014 at 7:45 pm)Raevoryx Wrote: I was scrolling through a Social Networking site (I'm still following multiple Christian Organizations since they usually don't post all that much and I tend to be curious), and found an article linked by AWANA about the study done on children showing that children who are exposed to Bible Stories have a harder time distinguishing reality from fiction.
I had read something on Patheos a few weeks ago and immediately thought, "THEY FOUND THE THING!!!"
I'm curious to what everyone else thinks.
Anecdotally speaking, my five-year-old knows that some things are real and some aren't, but she still has to double-check with me. In addition to asking if ghosts or vampires are real, she's asked me if bears or wolves are real. They all get lumped in with "scary things", which I guess makes sense from her point of view.
I also get a kick out of when she tells me a ghost story. She'll stop part way through to reassure me that none of this is real before continuing.
(August 17, 2014 at 11:08 pm)Raevoryx Wrote:(August 17, 2014 at 8:01 pm)Surgenator Wrote: Reading the article, the lady missed the whole point. What makes a fairy tail is the outlandish claims not how cutesy it looks.
Exactly, my spark of hope for the person died as soon as I saw that she didn't get it.
Of course. That narrative is one made to make her feel better and to avoid genuine introspection. This is sort of like what happens when you find a negative correlation between education and religious belief. Now, I know correlation doesn't prove causation, but this won't stop them form spinning it to say that education contains liberal/atheistic indoctrination. They don't want to consider the more intuitive possibility...
