/lit/ - Literature

>Jan Berenstain, who with her husband wrote and illustrated the Berenstain Bears books, gentle best-sellers that enlightened preschoolers for half a century with simple lessons about kindness and tidiness, and reasons not to be afraid of the doctor, died on Friday in Solebury, Pa. She was 88.

>Her death was confirmed by her publisher, HarperCollins.

>With her husband, Stan, who died in 2005, Ms. Berenstain wrote more than 300 books, most of them offering moral lessons through the lives of a tidy nuclear family of plainspoken bears known as Mama Bear, Papa Bear, Brother Bear and Sister Bear.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/arts/jan-berenstain-dies-at-88-created-berenstain-bears.html?amp

See, when I was growing up, The Berenstain Bears was this wholesome, SECULAR series of books with no overarching message, meant to instill good family values.

These days? I look at the books they release now and they're slathered in Christian themes about God and faith.

Now, I'm not at odds with my faith or anything and retain that I am a Christian man, but what the fuck? I don't want to see something that was meant to just be a simple series about family life turn into this vehicle to recruit people to Christianity. Pushes my buttons, I swear.