{"id":6266,"date":"2008-04-25T12:52:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T17:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2008\/04\/25\/telling_terrifying_fairy_tales_is_good\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T12:52:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T17:52:39","slug":"telling_terrifying_fairy_tales_is_good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2008\/04\/25\/telling_terrifying_fairy_tales_is_good\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling Terrifying Fairy Tales Is Good?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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That terrifying fairy tales are good is one of the conclusions of an article in the April edition of Touchstone—A Journal Of Mere Christianity<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The premise for this article<\/strong> is that “In Removing the Fear from the Story of Jonah, Children’s Versions Remove the Gospel, Too”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The author, Ronald F. Marshall,<\/strong> compared “mountains” of children’s books, bibles, and videos about Jonah, and found that they had removed the horrific details of the book and replaced it with comfy sentimentality. This is how the author words it:<\/p>\n

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“Jonah is a horrifying book, with its raging storm and fierce sea-monster, a suicide attempt and near drowning, and, at the end, a confrontation with a massive enemy city. But in American children’s literature it is largely a harmless adventure story, all about travel and intrigue, underwater hideouts, success and fame.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The stories, largely, glosses over some or all of these details:<\/strong><\/p>\n