Hardly a classic
fairy tale is told without the woods as a supporting role.
These popular
fairy tales are told in simple and symbol supported language with blank spaces above for children to draw their own pictures or use the clip art included to cut and paste to create scenes.
Fifteen deeply twisted, fantastically funny, and hauntingly human
fairy tales are told from the point of view of the villain in this collection of very grim short stories.
Not exact matches
# 2: They acknowledge the debt, but
tell themselves
fairy tales that it doesn't matter... or that the government
is going to somehow «fix» it.
Before I ever wrote my first book I
was a story - teller; I created the
fairy -
tale story and would gather friends together and
tell my story to them.
@ stjdsj — So please
tell me who will
be in heaven, only «certain» Christians according to your silly book of
fairy tales?
To
tell someone that they deserve to go where the worst people in the world go when they die
is still insulting, even if you
're rational enough to know such a place
is a
fairy tale.
You have no idea what you
are talking about with your
fairy tale illusion of what you THINK salvation
is all about... it
's a ridiculous concept based on flawed foundations right from the get go... here
is my EVIDENCE... The record in Samuel
tells us that it
was the Lord who tempted David to do the numbering; that in Chronicles says it
was Satan.
In view of the number of specific prophetic events that
were fortold and have come about exactly as fortold, your position requires more faith to believe it
is a
fairy tale than mine to believe that there
is someone (God) who knows the future and
told us the future.
But if your priest
told you that, I
'm sure you'll hang onto that
fairy tale, too.
As far as unicorns go, there could have
been some mutant horses 10000 years ago that a few people saw and
told their fellow cavement about but Chief Ragnar laughed and then it became
fairy tales.
In their employment of considerable fantasy — I
am thinking now of those that expose childhood sexual abuse and the like — these narratives resemble
fairy tales told in the first person.
Of course you can
be proven wrong... your holy book
was written by man, no god involved; thus your belief
is based on the
fairy tales told by men who saw a gullible fool a mile away - see, how easy that
is??? As for the actual number
being only 1.6 billion, sorry the stats say different and your opinion on who the actual number includes
is moot.
In the attempt to keep their children «innocent» and «free,» parents
tell their children a different type of
fairy tale, a modern American story: everyone loves you because you
're special, you
are good at everything you try, and if you work hard enough and
be a good little boy or girl, you'll
be successful.
Still amazes me how people
are so willing to follow an idea, a religion, a dude
telling fairy tales from a stage, rather than the things that they see before them every day, and in doing so, tie everyday natural occurrences into evidence for the validity of their
fairy tales.
If you cant
be a good person without some
fairy tale character
telling you what to do... then there
's little hope for you either way.
at the end of the day i'd rather have an agnostic or atheist as president than someone who believes in some
fairy tale, or thinks that god
tells people what to do, or that religion
is necessary for morals.
If you can't
tell what
is right and wrong without relying on your
fairy tale, I feel nothing but pity for you.
Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and
Fairy Tale by Frederick Buechner:: Buechner
is another perennial favourite of mine but this one somehow escaped my notice for many a year.
The right to religious freedom includes the right to not believe the
fairy tale and this Ohio state native lived in Utah for almost 20 years and I
'm telling you, my fellow Americans, you DO NOT WANT a Mormon in the White House, even if you
are also a religious nut.
Hawking would have looked smarter if he had indicated he had done some serious and balanced philosophical reading: something more articulate than carping it
's all a «
fairy tale,» which doesn't
tell me anything except he
's dismissive and has nothing substantive to say.
I do not mean by this that the gospel
is merely a «
fairy -
tale,» although it
is, of course, true that such
tales are often
told in language of that kind.
Sure, some Christians «think for themselves» but, at least in some small degree, they rely on poems and
fairy tales and, critically, what they
are told by others
are the «rules», to guide their behavior.
It
is up to us whether we wish to make any application to our life from a
fairy tale, or simply enjoy the fantastic events it
tells about [p. 8].
Believing in a system that
was created by stone age men sitting around a fire
telling fairy tales to scare kids and keep people in line, that
was propagated by men who learned to write, and that
was based on making a class of «preists» and holy men that could get money for doing nothing and that could dictate how olthers should live and molest boys and girls
is stupid.
Because someone dear to the beliver
told them this
fairy tale and they can't handle the truth that their religion
is fictional tall
tales because they think, most likely their parents would
tell them something that isn't bogus but it
is.
In the same way «once upon a time»
tells us to expect a
fairy tale and «here
is the news» to expect a report on the day's significant activities, the «sui generis» approach to the gospels invited the expectation that we would learn about the early Church, not the life of a historical figure.
Christians need to learn to step outside themselves and think about how difficult and annoying it
is to talk to people about important issues when the only thing Christians base their «ideas» on
is ancient Middle Eastern
fairy tales and that they
were told to believe something.
In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has
been amped up from the morality
tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of
fairy tales.
Fairy tales tell children that dragons can
be killed.»
Atheists have a strong interest in the religious — new atheists
are interested in converting those that believe in
fairy tales to non-believers and others of us well have an interest in the groups that
are into
telling us we
are not real people.
If someone
was born in Saudi Arabia, they would
be Muslim and if they
were born in the US, they would
be Christian... It
's up to them to figure out that religion
is a crock before they waste their whole life worshiping a non-existent friend in the sky and believing in a book full of
fairy tales... My favorite
fairy tale is about the guy who
was told not to look behind and
was turned into a block of salt when he disobeyed the command and took a peak... lol... I
was raised christian but I had too many doubts and questions especially after our scandalous pastor took the money that
was raised to build a new church building and disappeared into thin air with the loot... lol... After I ditched religion, I had a peace of mind and I
am still at peace...
It
's easy to let your mind go numb and just
be told what to think but it
's a lot more rewarding when you can actually let you mind go free and live your own life and not worry about
fairy tales.
Oh and additionally... you need to study REAL history concerning the crusades because the notion of converting Muslims to our faith by the sword
is nothing but a
fairy tale told by revisionist historians who desire to create a history that meets their agendas rather than report truthfully.
The government should not and
is not trying to
tell the Church what
fairy tales it can
tell their congregation.
And, as might befit a teenaged church, Bigelow Methodist
is described in the
fairy tale of Briar Rose, here
told by the brothers Grimm, translated by Francis Magoun and Alexander Knappe:
Ransom, we
are not the ones who believe, as adults, the
fairy tales told to children to scare them into believing..
That I want to
tell you that it
's not
fairy -
tale / pixie - dust, that it
is real, simply real.
I think they
're all
fairy tales, but I can live with their followers if they just stay out of my life and quit
telling me what to do.
By noon even the truest of true believers knew that they had
been telling themselves a
fairy tale.
Feel free to believe in Satan all you like, but don't go
telling everyone else that we should live differently or
be afraid of your
fairy tale monsters just because you believe them.
Mankind has always believed in the spiritual world, every
fairy tale ever written (or
told orally before the written word) only serves to show our deep longing to reconnect with something that has
been lost.
And you think it
is your job to
tell everybody that rejects jesus as at best a
fairy tale on how to lead their lives, how arrogant!
This notion of a God that cares about individuals and humanity
is a nonsense
fairy tale told by people who can't accept not knowing why what we call «bad things» happen.
If spock went to church... his already intelligent, logical mind would
tell him he didn't feel moved by a holy spirit or a god because it
's all
fairy tales made up to control others.
Little Red Riding Hood
is so beautifully handcrafted and I adore how she helps
tell a favorite
fairy tale.
What I can
tell you
is that you shouldn't get down on your parenting skills if you
're toddler's toilet time doesn't resemble that of some «mom expert» on the internet, or doesn't look like the potty training
fairy tale you had envisioned for yourself and your little.
A clear narrative would
be better then a clear Story, or better still a clear set of policies the problem
is a lot of what labour has
been telling us of late can
be seen as Stories or better still
fairy tales.
Trouble
is, it
's almost impossible to
tell whether these designs
are realistic, or just
fairy -
tale constructions with clouds for foundations.
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