Comments on: Santa Claus and the Necessity of Magic http://www.jonathanfsullivan.com/2008/12/santa-claus-and-the-necessity-of-magic/ Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:25:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: me http://www.jonathanfsullivan.com/2008/12/santa-claus-and-the-necessity-of-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-10 me Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:41:47 +0000 http://www.vinumnovum.org/?p=218#comment-10 Yeah but it's my understanding that most of those who would see fantasy literature banished from our children's libraries do so exactly because of that fact. They don't want kids having a sense of mystery about the world. The world, for them, is not full of mystery, it's full of problems and challenges waiting to be solved. Mystery clouds the judgment needed in making the rational, logical, sensible decisions and discovering the "truth" of the universe. For them the only truth worth anything is the truth you can prove as fact. "Inoculating them against that sense of mystery" is exactly what they want to accomplish. Then children will see, like they have, how ridiculous religion and belief in God is. After all knowledge (fact=truth) is the only important thing in the world. They make me sad. :sad: Yeah but it’s my understanding that most of those who would see fantasy literature banished from our children’s libraries do so exactly because of that fact. They don’t want kids having a sense of mystery about the world. The world, for them, is not full of mystery, it’s full of problems and challenges waiting to be solved. Mystery clouds the judgment needed in making the rational, logical, sensible decisions and discovering the “truth” of the universe. For them the only truth worth anything is the truth you can prove as fact. “Inoculating them against that sense of mystery” is exactly what they want to accomplish. Then children will see, like they have, how ridiculous religion and belief in God is. After all knowledge (fact=truth) is the only important thing in the world.

They make me sad. :sad:

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