B. The Absence of Dark Analogies

If Christians retreat entirely from this genre, the field is left open to other worldviews. When imagination is nourished exclusively by stories that embrace nihilism, despair, or moral relativism, those are the "analogies" that become "encoded" in the child's mind.

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One thing I’ve also noticed is the gradual loss of the understanding of “imagination” as a category; it can sound a little Reading Rainbow to talk about, but wouldn’t you know imagination is actually an essential part of the human condition. In so far as the words “spirit” or “spirituality” mean anything beyond woo-woo or cliché they must include... See more

child psychologists have looked at storytelling as an important tool children use to work through their anxieties about the adult world. Fairy-tale fantasies are now regarded as almost literal depictions of childhood fears about abandonment, powerlessness, and death.