What is your favorite fairy tale? How does its message compare with the message from your favorite bible story

Question

For reference to favorite Bible story, see my earlier question:

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Answer 1

I guess my favorite fairy tale would be "Shrek".

It compares favorably to my favorite bible story, that of the good Samaritan. Both deal with the concept of not judging people by what you see on the outside, but realizing we are all deserving of the same consideration.

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Answer 2

I have always liked Aesop's (spelling??) Tale of the Sour Grapes. It's the story about how a fox (or maybe it was a wolf) saw some grapes on a high vine and thought about how great and juicy and wonderful they looked. But as hard as he tried he couldn't reach them, so then he convinced himself that they were probably just sour grapes and weren't worth it anyway.
Rather than "words to live by" I take this tale as a caution. If you do not reach your goal in the amount of time you set, does that mean you discard the goal and call it worthless, or keep trying? It's really more like food for thought.

Answer 3

Fairy tale? Well how about this one by Charles Darwin telling us how the whale "evolved" from being a land mammal.

http://www.godrules.net/evolutioncruncher/c22.htm

"In North America the black bear was seen by Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."—*Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species (1859 and 1984 editions), p. 184.

Or maybe this one about how the giraffe got it's long neck.

"So under nature with the nascent giraffe, the individuals which were the highest browsers, and were able during dearths to reach even an inch or two above the others, will often have been preserved . . By this process long-continued . . combined no doubt in a most important manner with the inherited effects of increased use of parts, it seems to me almost certain that any ordinary hoofed quadruped might be converted into a giraffe."—*Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species (1859), p. 202.

How does it compare with my favorite Bible story? Very poorly. The Bible tells a cohesive story that starts at the beginning of creation, explains how and why things are the way they are and ends with the creation being restored to perfection.

Darwin's stories tell a tale of humankind as a huge cosmic accident with no hope or purpose for our being here and with nothing to look forward to but an open grave with nothing having been accomplished of any really significance in the cosmic scheme of things.