It has always amazed me. I've read my son the Old and New Testament stories since he was a baby (violence, death, bloodshed and all) and he was perfectly at peace. If he saw or read a secular story along the same lines he was fearful and scared.
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Proof of fundie child brainwashing. Secular bad, God's violence, death, rape, incest, genocide, and bloodshed good.
So, did you read secular stories about genocide, infanticide, and rape to your child then?
Perhaps you're influencing the way you tell the story, like through a psychosomatic reaction.
We need a double-blind test. We'll have Microsoft Sam read both stories to your son while ECG, EKG, Polygraphs, and other such things are attached to your son.
This should give us conclusive results.
I remember having a lot of trouble with Shakespeare in Highschool. Unless you speak Early Modern English at home, I doubt your child actually understood much of what you were reading him.
BTW, "Old English " is much older than the KJV.
And there were people that were never exposed to anything modern, and they were terrified of cameras and the photographs. It's called ignorance (or in their case, just not knowing)
And just how many times did you repeat that if it wasn't the bible, the poor child would go do your graphic description of hell?
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And yet, I wouldn't be surprised if "secular story" extends to every other holy book as well.
Is it too much to ask that you read your son a story that's not from the bible? I mean, the Bernstein Bears, the Faraway Tree Stories, or something?
Clearly he was pickung up the atmosphere from you. If you were happy with violence, death, bloodshed and all in the Bible, then it was OK with him.
It still doesn't mean that your God is naything less than a monster.
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Oh, no, no, no. *shakes his head* That sort of test would be something truly that to happen, could she?
For little kids it's often not the words but how you read them. If you tell them the Noah's ark story like it's some fun thing about a man with a family on a boat full of cute animals (like they told me in Sunday school) then, no, it won't scare most kids.
Probably because he can tell truth from fiction. Smart lad. Or brainwashed. Poor kid.
IanC: Two reasons, the first being that Lewis was OH NOES Catholic and the second being that there was magic.
You've found "secular stories" to read to a small (I'm gonna assume he's under 7 if she's still reading him bedtime stories) child involving rape, incest, genocide, the killing of entire families and tribes for the transgression of one, parents killing and sacrificing their children, dogs eating dead bodies, graphic sex, and all sorts of other unimaginable things?
You're one sick parent.
On a different note though, as a child I wasn't too terrible frightened by Bible stories, because they happened long ago in a land far, far away. Even though I believed them with all my heart I still treated them like fairy tales in my mind.
What the heck did you read to him, Stephen King's 'Misery'?
It's the writing style, madam. Of course the Bible is going to seem peaceful and unassuming, because the narration used is so quaint and... well, boring.
Stephen King, on the other hand... he narrates in a modern-day, real world voice, something that your son recognizes in everyday life. That's my take on why a child would have such a marked difference in reaction between the two.
Well, yes, hypothetical stories are not scary. I never was scared of Grimm's fairytales neither of the bible. For me both were rather similar in style and likelihood that things really happened like that. I was however worried sickly at the start of the 1st Iraq war.
Yeah, so what? Pavlov conditioned his dogs to drool. You've conditioned your kid to be a fool. Same old, same old.
@God Is Real Unless Declared Integer: I'm scared of the Bible NOW. Not because of what it teaches - I couldn't care less about wars that happened thousands of years ago - but how these fundie fucks use it to justify war and regression of rights.
Fearful and scared
How redudnant.
Teaching your child these stories at such a young age is the reason he likes them so much.
BTW...I don't understand why people consider this brainwashing. She indoctrinated him at a very young age with crazy bullshit. From what I can tell, that's not considered brainwashing.
If you think young boys would be fearful and scared of blood and gore, you know nothing about young boys. Put it this way, there's a reason the Horrible Histories are bestsellers. And young girls can be just as bloodthirsty too.
Your child became a zombie then...
And not the, brain-eating, exposed-bones, rotting-flesh kind of zombies. Those aren't nearly as scary.
People she's saying IF he saw or read a secular story
In other words, he's never been subjected to them. Of course having a raving lunatic of a mother freak out on you because you flipped the TV to Nicolodian, would scare the shit out of any kid.
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