Dr. Seuss?

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What’s the deal with Dr. Seuss? He had the great line “a person’s a person–no matter how small.” But then he had a lot of environmental stuff too (i.e. the Lorax).

Was Suess a Christian? What does anybody know about him really? We invite him into our homes, but who is he for real?
 
I know others may disagree with me, but I don’t think who Dr. Suess is or was is a big deal… he wrote great children’s books and that should be all that matters. I mean, c’mon I have read all kinds of great books by non-Christians.

I don’t know… maybe I’m missing the point of the question. :hmmm:
 
Tom of Assisi:
What’s the deal with Dr. Seuss? He had the great line “a person’s a person–no matter how small.” But then he had a lot of environmental stuff too (i.e. the Lorax).

Was Suess a Christian? What does anybody know about him really? We invite him into our homes, but who is he for real?
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Ummm what’s wrong with the environmental stuff? We are after all care-takers of God’s creation. The Lorax is one of my favorite stories.
 
I think Seuss might’ve been a Jew. His real last name was Geisel. I’ll see if I can find out online. I do know, though, that he never had children himself, and didn’t particularly like them.
 
The Lorax is a very pro-protecting God’s creation and not abusing our world out of greed and thoughtlessness… very Christian.

-D
 
I love Dr. Suess’s books, but he was very liberal, and when a pro-life group tried to use the line “a person’s a person no matter how small” to argue against abortion, he stopped them. I was very disappointed when I saw that on “Biography”. I don’t, however, have a problem w/ The Lorax. Environmentalism and Christianity go together perfectly, as long as you don’t go off the deep end and start destroying logging equipment or otherwise become an “eco-terrorist.”
 
I liked his stories as a kid and often brought his books home from the library.
Other than that I do know that he shared the same birthday as me. 🙂

But he sure wrote The Grinch Who Stole Christmas in a way that really goes beyond the materialism of Santa Claus.

My favs…the Animated stuff NOT the so-so movies.
The Grinch Who Stole Chirstmas
Green Eggs and Ham
The Lorax
The Cat in the Hat

go with God!
Edwin
 
Some of us gave a friend of ours this book when she got her degree…

Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

it’s for “outstarting upstarts of all ages” and encourages us all “to find the success that lies within us”

And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed.
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed)

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You can look inside the book here:

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I cannot speak regarding the late Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss), but his widow, Audrey Geisel, is a rather active supporter of Planned Parenthood in the San Diego area.
 
My favorite is “Horton Hatches the Egg”. It’s a great story about keeping one’s word - “I said what I meant and meant what I said.”
 
I can’t believe someone would have “issues” with Dr. Seuss! I am really beginning to worry about society and where we are going.
 
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I cannot speak regarding the late Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss), but his widow, Audrey Geisel, is a rather active supporter of Planned Parenthood in the San Diego area.
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It’s kind of ironic. The more abortions the fewer babies. The fewer babies, the fewer books sold. The fewer books sold, the lower the amount of the royalty check. She has an economic incentive to be pro-life, and she’s not.
 
Dr. Suess (like Charles Dickens with a Christmas Carol) had a great modernist triumph with the Grinch. The poem (which I admit to liking) is a creation of a new Christmas story about all kinds of wonderful human feelings, but it is not about Christmas–the birth of Christ, the Icarnation of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. Clever liberals don’t attack the Truth, they twist it.

In addition, consider the end of the Cat in the Hat: the children in the story are given the option to deceive their mother.

Chris C.
 
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I can’t believe someone would have “issues” with Dr. Seuss! I am really beginning to worry about society and where we are going.
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asking questions is not a bad thing–is it? If the abortion industry and the divorce rate didn’t make you “worry about where society was going” —then I am very surprised that one question on an internet forum about an author would.
 
I loved Dr. Seuss and read him a lot as a kid and to my own children. My favorite was The Sneetches. It was about predjudice. All of his books had a moral theme, no matter how small, or so it would seem.
 
Chris C.:
In addition, consider the end of the Cat in the Hat: the children in the story are given the option to deceive their mother.

Chris C.
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Umm, I have read that Dr. Seuss was angry about pro-lifers using the “a person is a person no matter how small”. :mad:

I just love his books (and use them to teach my values)- including the Butter Battle Book (about war), The Lorax (about protecting the environment), The Sneetches (about predjudice), Thidwick (about helping others, being kind), Horton Hatches the Egg (about caring for an egg prior to hatching 👍 ), Yertle the Turtle (about power and freedom)…I could go on and on. I think that Dr. Seuss’ stories being read in a loving Catholic home are only going to be “liberal” in the good ways, my kids already know the REAL meaning of Christmas, the value of the unborn, the way to balance environmentalism, etc.

And frankly- if I leave my kids at home alone all day and a cat in a tall hat comes in, reeks havoc in the house, cleans up and then leaves- I would be ok with them lying to me about it 😉 .
 
I’m really disappointed that Dr. Seuss didn’t like pro-lifers
using the line “A persons a person no matter how small”. I
remember how that line struck me the first time I read it to
my kids, what a shame. We loved reading his books, oh well. 😦
 
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