Two Questions...

[leahbobet]

...both spawned by the never-ending parade of posts about how terrible Twilight is.*

1) So two major YA series hit big in the last ten years: Twilight and Harry Potter. In the early part of each series, you saw what can be charitably called low production values in terms of craft, plots that revolved around blatant wish-fulfillment, and wholesale rips of the tropes of already established subgenres. Potter is the poster child for mainstream acceptance. Twilight is excoriated regularly in newspapers, the internets, and local bookstores in reenactments of the Five Minutes' Hate.

What's the difference? What causes that?

I have my own theory, but I want to hear yours.


2) Where do people get the idea that exposing a child to a worldview or idea at all means the child will automatically agree with, adopt, and adhere to that worldview or idea?

Really, peoples. You met kids?


*Haven't read it, not gonna, no opinion on the matter.

Comments

[shiroiko.livejournal.com]

The LDS church believed in Jesus (and both Old and New testament) but has additional books of teachings as well and well as additional prophets. Wiki's brief synopsis of the differences is "Perhaps the most distinct difference between the LDS Church and other faiths is the belief that its founder Joseph Smith, Jr. was a prophet who received a visitation from God the Father and Jesus Christ ... and was directed to translate what became known as the Book of Mormon, a volume of scripture..."

So it's like Christianity plus a bunch of other stuff... a LOT of other stuff... and that other stuff is all things generally though of as heresy by other Christian sects. Actually, several sects consider the LDS church a cult rather than a church.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd noticed in the news coverage of the Texas polygamy thing that most people who self-identify as Christian seem to turn up their nose at Mormons. I must admit I find it a little funny that the cry of heretics ee! is still alive and well in modern times.