MasterJedi wrote:
because children have to be taught things. If a child isn't taught to believe in make-believe, imaginary creatures and beings, they won't.
As a catholic, you lack reason and thus, had to ask this question. Hopefully you will become enlightened enough to think for yourself, answer your own questions and stop talking to yourself at night. Questions are the beginning of wisdom. If you can answer your own questions, do so. Otherwise ask them.
But children make up their own beings anyway. Perhaps thats why religion is so effectively passed on. Adults take advantage of their childs natural tendency to make believe and thrusts a bizarre and fantastic belief system on them.