I don't want to be misunderstood as saying that religion is just some kind of psychological crutch to help people with their childish fears. The project of understanding it and working with it is every bit as critical for human life as is the process of science, through which we understand and work with the objective external world. It stands in the same relation to Anne-Marie's nink ritual as does science to her learning the names and sounds of different animals. Rationalists' objections to religion focus on the text that provides the concrete imagery of the religion. It may be an actual text, such as a written scripture, but more generally it is the whole set of imagined entities and stories that are used in the religion.
Rationalists object to the mythological or fantastical character of religious texts.
I'm not sure. She enjoys them, looking at the pictures of different animals doing different things. But these books never inspired a mad dash to the kitchen to check for ninks. It seems to take the fanciful extravagance of Dr. Seuss to launch the process of detaching subjective reality from the objective world so that it can be experienced, explored, and ultimately mastered.