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Is it moral to teach children that there are talking snakes?
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Jeremy Mason
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Greatest I am
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Refreshing. Thanks for this.
Regards
DL
Greatest I am
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Fairy tales have great moral lessons. I would never think of ending this practice. This fact is irrelevant to the issue except that we have turned a Bible into a book of fairy tales. A shame.
We tell children the difference between fact and fantasy.
Check out how many Fundamental adults believe that talking snakes and 10 headed monsters are as real as the Bible is the true words of God.
That might make you recant.
We eventually tell our children that there is no real Santa. Fundamentals maintain through adulthood that snakes talk.
Do you think this is good for adult minds or evil?
Regards
DL
Greatest I am
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My children told me when he was not. It would have been wrong to keep on with a lie to those old enough to seriously ask.
Santa offers gifts to all as all children know themselves to be basically good. Fundamentals offer hell to most.
A huge difference right?
Regards
DL
Greatest I am
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What I don't understand is adults believing in 10 headed monsters.
Childre are to play with imaginary friends. Adults should put away the toys of childhood.
Regards
DL
StripperClown
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I don't think it's inherently a good thing to tell kids that Santa is real. I'm going to teach my kids to question things. If I were to tell my kid they need to sleep, and they asked why, I would tell them real factual reasons why.
Evolution_Not
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1) Moral, evil are religious terms to denote disobediance to God who sets the standards unlike men with their finger in the air.
2) It is accepted by most fundamentalist that the serpent is satan (lucifer) which is revealed later in scripture. While it is obviously not impossible for God to make a talking snake the reference is meant to be a character assasination.
3) In fact he was quite beautiful or attractive which made it that much easier to
deceive the woman.
No Santa?....Oh no How will I survive
2) It is accepted by most fundamentalist that the serpent is satan (lucifer) which is revealed later in scripture. While it is obviously not impossible for God to make a talking snake the reference is meant to be a character assasination.
3) In fact he was quite beautiful or attractive which made it that much easier to
deceive the woman.
No Santa?....Oh no How will I survive
Luminous
non-existential luminary
Immorality is judged by the self.
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Greatest I am
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It is logically easy to tell kids why they need and must sleep.
How do you logically tell them that it has to be at a certain time.
This is a rule and is not bound to any logical reason other than just convenience.
Regards
DL
Greatest I am
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Deuteronomy 21
18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
19Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
20And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
21And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
If I do not obey this rule, am I evil or am I good?
Regards
DL
Terrywoodenpic
Oldest Heretic
Other questions might be...
Is it moral to teach about the nature of God as in the old testament?
Or only about the nature of God as taught by Jesus?
Is it moral to teach about the nature of God as in the old testament?
Or only about the nature of God as taught by Jesus?
StripperClown
Member
If they had school in the morning and needed to be up, by let's say... 7 AM, and the average hours for decent, healthy sleep was 8 hours, then my kids would be to sleep by 10 PM the night before. Then I would have them get to sleep earlier later on depending on how they were coping with that sleep schedule -- if they were feeling rested and what not.
3.14
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wel the talking snake thing teaches children that they can lie realy obviusly and still get away with it (immoral)
but it also teaches morals and thats (moral)
so the whle snake thing cansels eachother out now its all up to the person who brings it weather its immoral or not
but it also teaches morals and thats (moral)
so the whle snake thing cansels eachother out now its all up to the person who brings it weather its immoral or not
Greatest I am
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But daddy my favorite show is on and I am always awake for 1 hour before every one else.
As I said, your convenience. I have been there 4 times. I know the bull.
No logic.
Regards
DL
StripperClown
Member
*records kid's favorite tv show*
You can watch it after school tomorrow.
They would be up within a very appropriate time to get ready and be on time for school or whatever they had to do that day.
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