Do you find it thoroughly Sarcastic and a bit morbid for children?
2007-12-16 04:04:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, Jehovah's Witnesses are crazy fanatics. Any book that is trying to brainwash 5 year olds into worshipping God out of fear is an ignorant waste of paper.
Every other page in the book consists of "so and so is being punished" or "so and so didn't follow Jehovah's explicit instructions and is now dead".
Yeah, that's exactly what we should be reading to young children, that will surely make them grow up morally righteous.
2007-12-16 05:00:06 · answer #1 · answered by Ryan 4 · 1⤊ 7⤋
No. It is always better to tell kids truth instead of lies. To be honest instead of candy coated drivel. Later in life they trust a parent more especially in teen years. Parents must judge what their own kids can handle. It is their responsibility.
Though it has been many, many, too many years since I was a child, I still remember some of it. I also thoroughly know sarcasm and know the book is not. I valued my parents always telling me the truth rather than what was convenient at the time. I remember and appreciate this still though they are both long dead.
Valuable lessons are taught and kids like it that they are learning right along with adults. They enjoy showing off to their parents. Part of the reason the book was made the way it was has been to allow kids to read aloud with their parents. The young and inexperienced often do not understand how truly valuable a skill that is. With proper encouragement, they can grow into reading with emotion. Meaning not just the words individually, but the emotion of the paragraphs the writer used to write. All benefit from a greater understanding when this is done.
So not only do they learn truths about the Bible, they learn skills that will help them throughout life.
2007-12-16 04:37:02 · answer #2 · answered by grnlow 7 · 8⤊ 2⤋
why would telling the truth be 'morbid' for kids?
that is not lovingly preparing them for life and reality.
would you tell them a lie to keep them in line? some
used to do that, and now we have a nation of
atheists and agnostics, and people with no moral
compass.
that is sad. and, there is no sarcasm in the book.
it is filled with true accounts of REAL people.
the lessons taught therein are parallel to many of
the stories in grimm's tales and the like.
or, the guys who ran the mouseketeers back in
the fifty's .
proverbs, morals, training one's conscience
and training OUR own conscience.
that is why the world is in such a mess.
we need to send 3 billion copies of that book
around the world, to every child.
gramps.
2007-12-16 04:42:10 · answer #3 · answered by grandpa 5 · 6⤊ 2⤋
No.
I read it as a Catholic child and I loved it!!
Years later when studying with Jehovah's Witnesses I was overjoyed to realise that they were the publishers of "my book", as I used to call it when I had it.
2007-12-16 05:08:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
No, not at all.
"My Book of Bible Stories" contains the history of the world from when God began to create until right up to our present day and many beautiful illustrations.
http://www.watchtower.org/e/publications/index.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20061101/article_02.htm
2007-12-16 07:50:21 · answer #5 · answered by Alex 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Why??? Give a short example.
2007-12-16 06:43:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-12-16 04:09:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋