Let me rephrase that since you obviously missed my point (or choose to ignore it completely).
To me the study shows that children who are exposed to religious preachings/teachings are more likely to believe that characters in 'fantasy' stories are real (because they exhibit the same kind of 'magical' qualities as the god (or gods) they believe in) than those who are not exposed to those same religious preachings/teachings. But, honestly, I think it is all nonsense anyway..these are 5-6 year old children who likely also believe Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy are real. On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually, it compared Tom Sawyer to George Washington. The Harry > Potter and Abraham Lincoln study was done in 2009 and didn't mention > religion. > > . > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Also, it seems that study is referring more to the genre of 'fantasy' > than > > any general fiction. Harry Potter instead of Tom Sawyer. > > > > I took out of this the following: > > > > If you teach your child about a god (or gods) that are real and that they > > are supernatural, have amazing powers, created the Earth in 6 days (or > > whatever creation story exists in your religion), etc. it is difficult > for > > them to distinguish other stories where the characters may have similar > > types of powers (like magic) as 'fiction'. > > > > Of course we are talking about an age where most if not all likely > believe > > in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny - who have similar, magical powers. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:371817 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
