Well, my daughter asked if I still have a copy of The Golden Compass, and I said sure, though we couldn't find it; we found the two sequel, and we're wondering if we lent TGC to someone. I asked why she wanted it, and she said that she was curious to see a book that people were saying was horrible, and anti-religion. I told her that there actually were such books, and that some of them were cleverly written to persuade you to their way of thought, but I didn't think this was one of them.
As we're looking, she pulls another book from the shelf and asked what it was. It's Lamb, I said. Its the story of Christ as a kid, told by his childhood friend Biff. It's pretty funny. Is it anti-religious? she asked. No, I said. Its got things in there that a seriously religious person wouldn't like, but I liked it a lot. In some ways, it made more sense to me than some of the things you hear in church every week. It's Christ was someone who cared - a lot - about people like me.
By the time she left for color guard, she'd read twenty pages, and was enthusiastically telling another girl about it.
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So let me see if I got this straight:
Your daughter *wants* to read something, and in giving her the book to read, you also got her to read something else...
Then, when the subject matter was in question, you explained why you thought a certain way... but in a way that would still encourage her to formulate her own opinion...
But you are wrong about something. The title of the post is way off kilter.
But I'm allowing, nay encouraging her to read things that allegedly question her religion! This is not something the Catholic Church smiles upon... which is not a BIG deal with me, but it it, a little. Certainly, they'd think I was a bad father.
Course, I wonder why they still dress for mass in outfits that emulate something worn two thousand years ago....
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