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    After Natia and her leftist cohorts get their hands on the children's books, children will never read about the ancient myth of heterosexuality when men & women lived together, loved each-other, and had biological children.

    "Wow, you mean men and women actually lived together (and the same race) in the ancient 2000AD?!?! I can't believe it daddy!!!"
    They have been rewriting our history and literature for awhile now. I can handle rewritten fairy tales to make them G rated (think old Disney) vs. what is going on now.

    Russell Brand rewrites fairy tales 'to change the way children see the world'
    Trickster Tales, a series of children's books illustrated by Chris Riddell, will kick off this autumn with The Pied Piper of Hamelin



    Fresh from penning a call to revolution, Russell Brand is embarking on a series of children's books in which the comedian will share his own interpretation of classic fairy stories because "once we start changing the way children see the world, oh we can do all sorts of stuff".

    Brand announced his venture into children's literature on YouTube late on Tuesday. The series, to be called Trickster Tales, will be illustrated by the award-winning artist Chris Riddell, and will kick off with Brand's take on The Pied Piper of Hamelin in autumn, from publisher Canongate.

    http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...hildrens-books

    New edition of 'Huckleberry Finn' loses the N-word
    http://content.usatoday.com/communit...Q#.VU1R6maAUy5


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    The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales



    With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales—the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen—becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Schönwerth's work was lost—until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manuscripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Now, for the first time, Schönwerth's lost fairy tales are available in English. Violent, dark, and full of action, and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes, these more than seventy stories bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted, revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre.

    http://www.amazon.com/Turnip-Princes...214099&sr=1-13

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    Lmao, Dawkins, as intelligent as he is, sure does feel entitled to stick his oar in matters he's not exactly qualified enough to speak about..

    I grew up hearing old world fables passed down over generations (Hans Christian Andersen anyone?) and didn't even speculate about the existence of those creatures he described beyond the age of say 5..
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    "once we start changing the way children see the world, oh we can do all sorts of stuff".
    That's what's worrying.
    Out Of Africa Theory is a lie.
    http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...88#post3431588
    And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

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    [QUOTE=Hong Key;3581474]The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales



    With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales—the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen—becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Schönwerth's work was lost—until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manuscripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Now, for the first time, Schönwerth's lost fairy tales are available in English. Violent, dark, and full of action, and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes, these more than seventy stories bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted, revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre

    Just what we always needed, but not very much. The "unadorned oral tradition" is a great way to drive children away from fairy tales and Mother Goose Rhymes.
    For example, did we (and especially they) really need to know that "Ring Around the Rosy" is a "macabre parody of the Black Death" ?
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    A Ukrainian bedtime story for you. I don't see a problem.
















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    God even the athiests are taking things to the extreme. Welcome to humanity's collective craziness

    I wonder which movement next will start going off the deep end. Someone bring the popcorn and beer

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    insanity bump
    Out Of Africa Theory is a lie.
    http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...88#post3431588
    And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

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    he can fuck off

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