2007-09-25 15:21:41 · 35 answers · asked by Janet Reincarnated 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I choked on my pop,, thank you...lol..
2007-09-25 15:24:50 · answer #1 · answered by I give you the Glory Father ! 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
A fairy tale or fairy story is a fictional story that usually features folkloric characters and enchantments, often involving a far-fetched sequence of events.
Although the bible is the same, I would say its not suitable for children because of all the violence and hate in it (and that includes the new testament).
2007-09-25 23:26:11 · answer #2 · answered by tanjaneeka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have read the bible with my children...
I have always encouraged my children to think for themselves and make their own decisions part of that was allowing them to be exposed to the bible (and other religious texts) so they could make their own decisions...
Thus far my childrens beliefs break down as such..
My 19 yr old daughter believes there is some higher power (or powers) of some sort although she isn't sure if any religion has it right..
My 17 yr old son is Atheist.. He believes that there are no deities or higher powers at all and there never were..
My 10 yr old daughter remains undecided as of yet, she will decide over the next several years as she explores beliefs and belief systems more in depth..
2007-09-25 15:31:26 · answer #3 · answered by Diane (PFLAG) 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
perfect me if i'm incorrect right here, however the bible ends with Revelation. no longer a good purchase of happiness there.... How do you be responsive to how I stay my life? do you be responsive to me? Why do you only assume that I stay a life crammed with sin (which looks to point something I do, to a pair human beings) and have not anybody to respond to to? How can i be held in charge to all people yet myself, my family contributors, and the community? You human beings could stop persisting in the theory that all and sundry non-believers are toddler eating, drug abusing, amoral losers. And stable for you that your faith is so solid. Too undesirable you're able to motel to creating use of Pascal's guess on your argument.
2016-10-20 00:01:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't read the bible to "My" children just as I wouldn't read the original Grimm Fairy Tails to "My" kids...
Violent, hate-encouraging-under-the-guise-of-love stories have no place in the mind of a child.
I wouldn't read them EITHER the Jewish "old testament" OR the Christian "new testament" just as I wouldn't read them the Koran or the Satanic Bible either.
They all preach the same thing...
Intolerance, ignorance, and a fear of both knowledge and the current unknown.
(I say CURRENT unknown because the span of human knowledge expands exponentially every day no matter how much the bible thumpers want to deny it.)
So many people can't wrap their heads around the "Great Unknown" so they need to turn to the "God" answer...
So many people have such low self esteem that they need to feel that their suffering is for the future good of "heaven".
The threat of hell and the promise of heaven shouldn't be the one and only reason that you don't go around raping and pillaging!
Being a good person shouldn't come from fear of the big-bad-angry-god.
You shouldn’t NEED someone to tell you what is “Good” and what is “Bad”.
Just like I shouldn’t need to tell you what is actually IN your bible and how it is constantly being misquoted and so many parts ignored.
Like how Leviticus is quoted yet ignored…
Leviticus 18
18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 11
11:9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
11:10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
11:11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcasses in abomination.
11:12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
Somewhere a few pages down it even says that man shouldn't eat Fowl with "More then 2 legs". I guess that birds were different back in the day!
It’s SHOCKING how Christians are willing to spew their hate by using SOME of the Bible yet they are willing to completely ignore the rest…
Women on the rag are an “Abomination”, Women that have a baby are supposed to be secured in a hut for a varying amount of time since BOY baby’s are not as “Dirty” as GIRL baby’s and therefore require half the “cleansing time”.
According to “the rules” father’s can kill their daughters if they feel like it and sell them into slavery.
Eating Meat on a Friday is a Hell-Worthy offence…
I haven’t found it yet but I’m starting to think that there might just be a rule in there making it an “Abomination” to even go to the bathroom.
Like Lewis Black said in "Red White & Screwed" they had to write rules such as that down in the past because people were just shy of ANIMALS!
They had to TELL people that they shouldn’t do things like have sex with Animals!
The priest was tired of having to tell people:
“I don’t care how much you love her! You CAN’T MARRY A SNAPPING TURTLE!”
If you don’t even know the most basic of facts about what you are talking about then I can’t respect you or your views…
2007-09-25 15:38:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are better storybooks around.
I am quite sure you will not read "Sex in the City" to your children during bed time, even though that is a fairy tale storybook too.
2007-09-25 15:31:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, if I had children, I certainly wouldn't read them the bible as a bedtime story.
When I was 7 years old, I heard about the antichrist in Sunday school, and how his armies were going to take over the world and kill anyone who wouldn't follow him, and it scared me to death. I would lay in bed at night, what I'd hear was the rhythm of the ceiling fan in my parents room, but I'd convinced myself I could hear the soldiers of the antichrist marching down the road.
Pretty traumatizing stuff.
2007-09-25 15:30:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Hell, no! Have you read the OT? It's full of stories of incest, rape, polygamy, murder (and that's just Abraham)...further on, this 'loving' father allows one of his loyal subjects to be tortured to prove something. And to his arch enemy, who he's supposed to know more than and be more powerful, anyway. That's the story of Job.
To understand the NT, you need some background in philosophy, so it might be a little over a child's head.
2007-09-25 15:36:05 · answer #8 · answered by strpenta 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Wouldn't read them most fairy tales - they're all infused with violence and intolerance. The bible also is pornographic, promotes male dominance and violence toward women, promotes ethnic hatred, and is stunningly contradictory.
2007-09-25 15:33:49 · answer #9 · answered by Skeff 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd read Harry Potter instead. Quidditch sounds cooler than the Four Horsemen.
2007-09-25 15:33:35 · answer #10 · answered by Quonx. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, too much violence, rapes, murders, it is a horror book more than a fairy tale.
2007-09-25 15:33:10 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋