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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No but I did jump off of the roof with an umbrella because of Mary Poppins......Quote:
Originally posted by Magdalen:
*grumbles and smacks forehead* aaaaaaaaaah pretty soon nothing going to be christian enough to read.
The book is fiction ie not real....Give kids a little more credit, not all of us jumped off the roof because Superman can fly... [img]graemlins/whatever.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No but I did jump off of the roof with an umbrella because of Mary Poppins......</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">hehe really? Sorry dunno why that struck me as funny =/Quote:
Originally posted by MissCurlyCat:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Magdalen:
*grumbles and smacks forehead* aaaaaaaaaah pretty soon nothing going to be christian enough to read.
The book is fiction ie not real....Give kids a little more credit, not all of us jumped off the roof because Superman can fly... [img]graemlins/whatever.gif[/img]
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No but I did jump off of the roof with an umbrella because of Mary Poppins......</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">hehe really? Sorry dunno why that struck me as funny =/</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That?s okay, actually it was pretty funny.Quote:
Originally posted by Magdalen:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by MissCurlyCat:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Magdalen:
*grumbles and smacks forehead* aaaaaaaaaah pretty soon nothing going to be christian enough to read.
The book is fiction ie not real....Give kids a little more credit, not all of us jumped off the roof because Superman can fly... [img]graemlins/whatever.gif[/img]
Imagine looking out your window and seeing a little girl jump off a roof with an umbrella that had rainbow coloured jelly beans all over it???
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No but I did jump off of the roof with an umbrella because of Mary Poppins......</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">hehe really? Sorry dunno why that struck me as funny =/</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That?s okay, actually it was pretty funny.Quote:
Originally posted by MissCurlyCat:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Magdalen:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by MissCurlyCat:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Magdalen:
*grumbles and smacks forehead* aaaaaaaaaah pretty soon nothing going to be christian enough to read.
The book is fiction ie not real....Give kids a little more credit, not all of us jumped off the roof because Superman can fly... [img]graemlins/whatever.gif[/img]
Imagine looking out your window and seeing a little girl jump off a roof with an umbrella that had rainbow coloured jelly beans all over it???</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">hahaha yeah I'd be cracking up if one of my sisters did that heh =/ My mom would have freaked out..... anyway did you end up breaking anything? o.O
MissCurlyCat did you seriously? I tried blowing away with the wind holding an umbrella like Madeline... and it really worked....... [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]
The same site also has negative comments about Little Women !!!!!!!!
Really? Little Women is an excellent book!
I'd just like to note that nobody's perfect, and neither are any books. They all could be improved in a sort of way!
I would never buy anything from them- they're even bashing L.M. Montgomery, one of my favorite authors! They even said they didn't read the rest of the Molly stories. I'm pretty sure Molly is a Christian and a lot of Cristian children are like Molly and Ricky in that they have fights and don't get along. It's common. I bet some of the people on the site even were like Molly and Ricky when they were kids. They probably just won't admit it. Kids (and adults alike) like characters who are believable and Molly is believable. We should email the site and tell them what we think. I'm a Christian and I used to argue/fight with my brother all the time-does that make me any less of a good Christian? I don't think so. The world is not perfect- people are not perfect. That's my [img]graemlins/money.gif[/img] on that.
<font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ April 02, 2006 04:28 PM: Message edited by: Felicity_Fan85 ]</font>
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I was fine!(Of course my legs were sore afterwards.)I wish I could say the same for my mothers favourite bush, and my umbrella. Never again..........Quote:
Originally posted by Gone_Away_Lake:
MissCurlyCat did you seriously? I tried blowing away with the wind holding an umbrella like Madeline... and it really worked....... [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]
But it was the roof of the shed we had out in the back yard, tha tI jumped off of. Sorry I should have stated that before. It was still a high shed though.
Without getting into controversial issues, I just wanted to post (as a conservative Christian) that the opinions stated in this article are not what most Christians would agree with. American Girl books (many years ago) used to be carried by Christian companies, including (but not limited to) Focus on the Family. My local Christian bookstore still carries them.
I behaved largely like Molly, and I *gasp* grew up in a Christian home. Part of growing up is having parents teach and train us in the way we should go, as Molly's mom did so well (she was a "single parent" for a while, and doing her best).
My brother and I fought like cats and dogs growing up. Christian homes are not perfect. We aren't born knowing that it's wrong to get in a fight with our brothers and throw their underwear out the window after they've wronged us. Molly's character is like a normal kid. Her actions are normal, and throughout the books she learns right from wrong.
This company is trying to sell products, so I wouldn't take anything they say too seriously. Sadly, many Christians rely on companies and organizations to tell them what to believe without researching on their own; I'll be very disappointed if people take this article at its word, because just reading the book in its entirety (or the series, more preferably) will show people that the author of this article is way off the mark. (The fact that they are against very popular Christian published series as well, such as the Mandie books and Christy, should show how seriously we should take them. [img]wink.gif[/img] )
Cami, though they're Christian books, the Chronicles of Narnia aren't allegorical. C.S. Lewis wrote them with the question posed of, what if there were another fallen world, how would the Word visit that world to save it, if the world consisted of talking beasts? He felt that He would go as a talking animal, or Lion. But there isn't anything in Narnia that represents something on earth, so it's not allegorical.
<font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ April 02, 2006 04:56 PM: Message edited by: Melissa ]</font>