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If some people want to be consistent,then they would have to denounce all forms of fiction...but wait,didn't Jesus Himself teach the crowds and the disciples by the telling of parables.I have always understood that parables were stories ,not necessarily literally true of a specific event but ,structured to show how a principle like charity,belief,justice,or diligence is good and pleasing to God;but also that the one who is lazy,cruel, or a thief can expect more troubles because of his bad choices.

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.

If some people want to be consistent,then they would have to denounce all forms of fiction ...

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.

If some people want to be consistent,then they would have to denounce all forms of fiction...

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.