[John Locke]

Why not soar with them by reading about the flying saints, like Teresa of Avila or Teresita de los Andes? Why not bilocate with them on the spiritual missions of Padre Pio or St. Faustina? Why not read to them about crippled children who run at Lourdes or pray with them fantastically efficacious prayers that heal and deliver?

Why not? Because these things are fairy tales, just as much as the fantasies in the Potter books. To offer children fairy tales as entertainment, making it quite clear they are fiction, is fun and harmless.

But to proffer children fairy tales as if they were fact, with the clear implication that if they don't believe this rubbish they are bad children and God won't love them - that is one of the most vicious and evil forms of abuse that can be inflicted on the mind of a young child.

[1Peter2:16]

Of course, the most vicious of all child abuse is that of denying the existence of God, and keeping that child in a darkness not only in this lifetime, but sentencing him/her to an eternity separated from God, in hell.

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But to proffer children fairy tales [from the Bible (added for clarity)] as if they were fact, with the clear implication that if they don't believe this rubbish they are bad children and God won't love them -

Truly one of the more ignorant statements I've ever read on FR.

Calling Scripture "rubbish" is certainly your right, whether I agree with you or not, but suggesting that "God won't love them" reveals that, however much Scripture you've read, you understood none of it.