No Morality!  Not for Children
927716
The first section of this book was  the best part and I  was fascinated with the boy and the life he made for himself underground. I was compelled to read the entire book mostly due to the manner in which the author presented information about the characters and their encasement in a basement and how they were injured physically.  The author cleverly gave the reader all of the information about a boy's present situation and then went back to explain what had happened previously.  I found that I wanted to find out how the family got to be in their predicament and why there was so much abusive language and acts.

However, this book is about some very gruesome moral issues that I could never justify in the way that he had the family do.  There is something so twisted about the adults in this book who proclaim to do all of this to "help" or "save" their son while they did nothing to help a daughter who clearly needed an intervention!

In the end, I didn't find the story believable and even though it seems like it was written for children, there is no way that a child, even an older one, should think that the dilemma at all justifies the adult character's behavior.
3878601
I do not recommend this book to children. Whose fragile minds will be brain-washed by the homosexual agenda. This is my opinion. Imagine your child reading this horrid book and realizing that two male animals having sex and making babies is normal. It turns their delicate little minds into mush.  Final score 1 out of 5.
733516
When I saw "Children's Bible" I guess my mind automatically decided what it thought a Bible for children should be. And this wasn't it.

The worst part about this Bible is the paper that it is printed on. It is extremely thin, just like a real Bible, and it is quite heavy. For the age range that this Bible is focusing on, there's no way those pages are going to last long considering how heavy the book is and how rough kids are on books. This book is not really a children's Bible. It is a regular Bible that is illustrated with bright and colorful illustrations of three kids who are supposedly taking your child on a journey of discovery and learning.

Even though this Bible is written in common English, it is still technically beyond the ability of a child to understand. This is not a book that you can give to a child and say, here ya go, now go read. Holy cow!  Take out the children's illustrations and what's left is a normal Bible full of hate, incest, prostitution, greed, murder, incest, and all manner of other atrocities. There's no way I would subject my child to this. And there is no way that this is going to hold the attention of a child. I think it's laughable that Christians expect to have cartoons such as Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner banned because they are so "violent", yet they have no problem subjecting them to one of the most violent books in the world.
1825078
I read this book without regard to ethnicity or political belief. I read it as a woman -- as a human being who suffered at the thought of what other women are enduring in the name of "religion" or "culture."

There is no explanation possible to make this palatable to anyone with a conscience. To let it pass without mention is an abomination, akin to denying the Holocaust. There is no justification possible in the eyes of God.

To the perpetrators of this inhumanity to women, I can only promise you that God is watching. Any other comment on these perpetrators is superfluous.
3662119
How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even know? Can anyone love filth and squalor? Or lice and Rats?
This  quotation froma nun was the gest of this book. Like Dickens characters, but without the class or the happy ending. The chapter about prostitution  was much more graphic than necessary, making it impossible to recommend  to anyone with morals or to a young person who needs to be taught morality.  Not good reading, in my opinion  a waste of my enjoyable reading hours.
3609811
NOT APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN. DRINKING, SLANG, ADULT RELATIONS ETC.
3501801
This book is NOT for children; it is NOT even for Christians.  It did not surprise me to discover that the author is a self-proclaimed athiest.  His choice of what parts of the Bible to emphasize (especially his poor choices of Old Testament themes), and the images he chooses to portray these stories include large amounts of bloodshed, fire and brimstone, and sexual innuendo, which vividly undermine the Christian message of an all-Loving God who redeems His people through the story of Salvation History.
I purchased this book as a present for my children.  After pre-reading it, however, I plan to try to return it to the bookseller, and, if they will not refund my money, I plan to throw it in the TRASH.  My husband and I both have theology degrees, and we know the message that God wants to give each person through His sacred Word.  These books do not deliver this message.
The Old Testament book, in particular, is horrendous in its choice of images; I would not suggest any person, least of all a child, read it.  The New Testament book is mostly acceptable, except that the last third of it is taken up by vividly grotesque depictions of the Book of Revelation.
May God's Love, the Holy Spirit, enlighten Mr. Smith's heart and all those who read this.
3962535
This movie is not for Christian families. It promotes Mormonism and has an entire scene of the two girls communicating with a dead boy's ghost convincing him it is ok to let go and go home. And, teaches that people have to change to holiness living before they come to Christ. Not based on biblical principles at all.
3872499
It's appalling what sells these days.  There is so much good literature, meant to be enjoyed by imaginative children.  I can't imagine anyone with an ounce of intelligence reading this to a child.  It is trash, meant to warp innocent minds.  Don't waste your money or your time.  This book has no redeeming value, unless you need something to light your fireplace with.  Why aren't we given the option of zero stars?
3904927
I only read parts of this book and threw it down.  I had borrowed it from someone else.  I would never buy trash like this.  I had no idea of the real content of the book until I began to read it.  Yeah, I expected sex descriptions but not rape and torture!  I would give this garbage a -10 on a scalle of 0-10.  Pure trash.

So if you are sick-minded enough to enjoy descriptions of beatings, rape and torture then by all means, read it!

The entire story is completely stupid.  Never understood how a woman could "fall in love" with a man who raped and beat her repeatedly.  NASTY!
4183278
In this non-sensical drama, there are huge consequences to everyone's decisions except for the protagonist? Why? The movie is not self-consistent, glorifies abortion, and is just absurd in so many ways. The moral of the story is that kindness conquers all, and that there are no morals, and if you have a good heart, there will be no consequences to your horrible decisions. What's sad is that half of our population actually believe this philosophy!

Here are the happy themes that run throughout this movie: Incest, abortion, forgery, rejected orphans, drug addiction, adultery, murder and suicide.
103608
Does the animal abuse and suffering EVER STOP in this book?
I had to stop reading when I got to the part where Garface puts the cats in the burlap bag to dump them.
This is not a book I would EVER recommend to a child!
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
** ZERO ***
DEATH, DARK, DEPRESSING, MORBID, BLACK, SICK BOOK.
I'm sorry I was reading this close to midnight.
Now I have to go to bed with this horrible scene (mother calico cat & baby Puck) in my mind.
I've had enuf!
The sooner I forget this book, the happier I'll be.
ZERO stars!
AWFUL!  HORRIBLE!
This book is WORSE than the worst nightmare I've ever had in my life.
It's a shame this talented writer wasted her gift on such a morbid tale.
3564449
This movie lacks any integrity and is clearly propaganda for the Christian faith. Again, let us teach about an all loving and forgiving God by fearing the fires of hell if you do not obey. The argument of morality had to be the best. We, as free thinkers, are some how incapable of choosing humanity, compassion and love for the common good of all, is ignorant. How genuine can your morality be if you only do good to be rewarded in the kingdom of God?
3213808
This is the worst book I have ever read on the topic of morality and ethics. It does not come to any realistic definitions of what morality and ethics are and instead is aimed at squashing the definitions into something they clearly are not. If you wish to know anything about morals or ethics you most certainly will not find them in this misleading and sloppy piece of literature which in all honesty is a religion flailing about in it's death throws trying desperately to cling onto something that might make it relevant. Well it dashing babies against rocks, persecuting homosexuals, conquering out land villages and making them slaves, whipping people for wearing two sorts of fabric or planting different seeds in a field, beating your slaves, sending teenagers to prison for 2 years for taking comical pictures of himself next to a graven image (desecrating a "venerated object") of which even making that object is a sin. If all of those things are moral then perhaps the book has a point.

Let's not forget how the church behaved when it was in charge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law  ant the fact that the church used torture to impose it's beliefs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture  Christian ethics is an oxymoron.

When people talk of ethics and morality they talk of the ethics and morality of the time, rarely is the religion of the region referred to. This is because it is society and the legal system that moderates and modifies what is socially acceptable behavior not religion. In fact you will notice that even today, religion can be used to justify unjust hatred against minorities as seen by the treatment of homosexuals in Russia due to ignorant and arrogant religious bigots.

You can also see it's dangers when looking at world war 2. Catholic hatred of Jewish people was used to justify ethnic cleansing.

No offense however Kyle D. Fedler is no more than a know nothing apologist.
3298335
Jane Austen fans beware!  This book totally sickened me.  Vulgar does not even begin to describe it.  For example:

--The Bennet Family is described as a bunch of lazy people with filthy habits and wasteful ways.
--Mr. Bennet, his bastard child, and his fling with the help.
--Wickham is a pedophile, and I don't mean with teens.
--This book frequently deals with things you don't want to read about at bedtime, like manure, weird boils, nasty laundry with sexual secretions, and the like. The language is profane and graphic.
--The sex is blatant. Very blatant. Includes prostitution and detailed instances of rape.

If you want to end up hating this period of history and the Bennet family in particular, and additionally want to feel mildly nauseated for hours while reading, then read this book.  However, if you are a normal Jane Austen enthusiast, do not buy it!!!
893627
Doesn't even deserve 1 star as a children's book.  Extremely inappropriate content.  Pictures showing debauchery, people that do something the child doesn't like are killed and he's glad.  His parents do something he doesn't like and they are killed and he's happy and goes on a vacation.  Both pictures and content are horrid.
3021929
This movie does not herald virtue. It promotes vice. In one moment, it says that pride is the problem that causes all the turmoil in her family. Then, it says that "I must choose MY own fate", thus promoting pride! The only person who changes is the mom, but not the child. Long-standing family and cultural traditions, as well as the wisdom of elders is mocked in this movie, in exchange for doing "what I want" and "following my heart". Where's the chivalry in that?

Moms, if you want your daughters to learn how to talk back to you and become more selfish, have them watch this movie.

Dads, if you want your children to see you as nothing more than a buffoon with no real authority, have them watch this movie.

I'm disappointed with Pixar. They had set a standard for classy movies, but this felt more like Shrek to me. Want your kids to see images of bare backsides and cleavage? It's all in this "family" movie. Tasteless humor, and promoting selfishness with no lasting consequences.