She said, No, I don t know what it means, but it makes the boys like me more. Another influence on children, widely remarked upon since the Harry Potter craze began, is literature, and here the same forces are at work. One new book apparently is designed to disabuse them of their faith in God. A British author named Philip Pullman, in his novel The Amber Spyglass, offers, in the words of the New York Times Sarah Lyall, a thrillingly ambitious tale with a radical view of religion that may well hold the most subversive message in children s literature in years. You can just disregard Psalm 127 in today s cultural slimefest.
Children now are nothing more than a target-rich environment.
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