When all else fails to remind a person God has a sense of humor,I need only point out that He made people.And then He made a platypus to confuse them.
Sad are those who would remove all man-made reproductions of nature in painting and carving as graven images,and deny all imagination,demanding that only the Bible and the mechanical sciences be allowed. I think there was such a time,generally referred to as the Dark Ages.A time when men and women were most cruelly murdered for slight differences of opinion about God. Is God threatened by what mistakes you or I might (will) make?
I hope a certain poster is now less full of it after his break.
That's probably true, but I don't think people have to be strictly consistent, except if the paint themselves into a corner by overgeneralizing on FR :-). Parents have the right, even the duty, to use their judgment, even their intuition, to discern what's edifying or potentially harmful for their children.
I'll page through a book by an unfamiliar author my children are interested in, and if I see anything that makes me uncomfortable, I'll say, "Put it back, you have lots of other choices." And all of them comply.
We sometimes have breaks from fantasy and science fiction books for a month, or through Lent, or all summer ... "some other fiction or nonfiction." My oldest (16) spent last summer reading big-game hunting books, travel writing and explorers' stories, and Christian historical fiction. She griped every trip to the library, but she enjoyed the different books we found.
Especially forms of fiction that incorporate elements of magic (*shudder*) and are marketed to children. Like this stuff:
I mean that ol' Walt Disney was quite the occultist. Witches, wizards, enchantments, fairy godmothers, animal sidekicks (familiars, anyone??). Why he even had the world wishing on a star. Just dastardly.