Article on CNN encourages parents to assure Kids that Monsters arent real...

This article:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/14/children.fears.real.imaginary/index.html

did a good service, but stopped short at movie monsters. Should have continued with telling kids that God is imaginary, there's no such thing as Hell, and not to worry about some guy tortured for their "sins" because crazy people like to believe crazy things. You know, to keep kids from getting unnecessarily scared or traumatized.


In other news...I heard some Mormon spokesperson suggest that the idea of marriage for homosexuals would "do violence to the definition of marriage". Isnt "violence" to any definition also known as progress? We did "violence" to our definition of elements, our definition of the shape of the earth, and the origin of the universe. It is, I suppose, then, valid to consider the "defence of the definition of marriage" exactly equal to Superstition and willful ignorance.

I for one am very glad we did "violence" to the definition of human via the civil rights and suffrage movements, and I hope to see a lot more definitions get roughed up, such as the "definition of fraud" to include religious teaching.