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Quote by: another day A story about a child killing god is a ploy to promote atheism? How can that be true when atheists don't believe in god? As for the argument, I don't think it's good for kids to be indoctrinated into atheism of course because they won't have a real understanding of why they should disbelieve. They will still have the same simple minded understanding of the universe just like religious people and will probably justify their belief with weak, brainless explanations like "If theres a god how come he doesn't cure cancer". Real atheism, should come about as part of a deeper understanding and philosophy of life, people, and the universe as a whole, not taught based on the ideas of how church and religion corrupts people and so they should be shunned. As for the book, I've had the first one since i was about 14...never got around to reading it...maybe i'll give it a shot.

Well, it also paints the Church as an evil, grasping organization that engages in all kinds of mutilations and likes to literally rip the souls from children for fun and profit. God is said to have gone senile, and has been "replaced" for quite a while by an angel named Metatron. The deicide could be considered more symbolic than literal...even though it is literal in the story.