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This is what passes for christian children's educational material
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This is what passes for christian children's educational material
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.)
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Rhythm Wrote:(want a laugh, read the fucking reviews)

I didn't laugh, and I think I died a little inside.

But that's an aside: HOW THE HELL DO YOU HAVE 7.3K POSTS ALREADY?! Shock

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Bow before me, pathetic empress of an irrelevant galaxy, for I am your posting Lord.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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Am I the only one terrified that there are more 5-star reviews than 1-star reviews?
What falls away is always, and is near.

Also, I am not pretending to be female, this profile picture is my wonderful girlfriend. XD
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I read the reviews but I didn't laugh.

That shit is too depressing to laugh at.
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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!
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Meh, I got my revenge. He had to sit through The Lorax tonight, he would have walked out (liberal propaganda). I put Moser right in his lap and left her there.

For anyone wondering, it's a terrible movie....completely butchered one of my favorite books.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL5yplRHE...re=related
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Rhythm, if my father-in-law gave my kid a book about the biblical account of dinosaurs(whatever the fuck that is, the bible says nothing about dinosaurs), I would chew him a new asshole and set him in his place.

And as to the Lorax, were you expecting anything besides a complete slaughtering of the original material?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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(March 3, 2012 at 9:00 pm)Aegrus Wrote: Am I the only one terrified that there are more 5-star reviews than 1-star reviews?
Must be one hell of a book.
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