Part 1a: The Bible: Inspired Literal Word of God
I grew up believing the Bible was the inerrant word of God. Every dot and tiddle was meant to be there. And if we were close enough to God, he would tell us what it meant. (though, i found the various verses warning us against adding/subtracting from the bible to be odd - since they were scattered throughout the middle and were a warning against
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My mind easily filled in the blanks, rationalized and compartmentalized.
One of my friends, who is an author of fantasy books for children, once commented on the differences between writing books for children and adults. With adults, you can leave gaps in the narrative, because adults will use their life experience to read between the lines and fill in the gaps, without actually being cognisant of it. With children, on the other hand, because they haven't garnered this life experience, you have to show everything. Because they can't fill in the gaps they tend to notice when something is missing. So avoiding topics simply attracts their attention to them. So the solution, when approaching a topic which, as an adult you might think you want to avoid in a children's book, is to simply treat it matter of factly and provide no special emphasis on it drawn from your own life experience.
The interesting thing, she noted, is when the two readerships (adult and child) collide, and the adult weights what they read in the children's book with ( ... )
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